Jed wrote:-
<<And now they have stopped, thank goodness. I think it is over. That's
my point; these things eventually stop.>>
The centuries old "troubles" stopped because there was recently a power
sharing agreement between the British (Northern Ireland) and Southern
Ireland governments. The conflict was because the Brits originally
"colonised by force" Northern Ireland. The Sinn Fein (Republican movement,
of which the IRA were the armed soldiers/ terrorists, wanted the whole of
Ireland back under their control - most of the Northern Irish Protestant
majority wanted to stay loyal to Britain. The Protestants were the
descendants of the invaders but, as Northern Ireland was their home, they
didn't want to give it up. Impasse?
The Muslim terrorists are no more evil than the pilot of the Enola Gay
was evil. Terrorists are usually created by a large organised force ( in
this case the USA) that will not listen or care when people object to what
it is doing. If those with the greatest power will not listen, or believe
that they have a divine right to ride rough shod over others in the pursuit
of their objectives, whether voted on democratically or not, there is NO
CHOICE for the abused other than to adopt the tactics of "asymmetric threat"
Until the ordinary American realises that they have encouraged their
government to push around and manipulate less powerful countries for the
benefit of the USA's extreme and pathological greed AND TELLS THEM TO STOP,
there will be no end to it.
Philip Winestone wrote:-
<<But some (many) people are envious of this water - without regard to the
blood, sweat and tears that it took to create it - and would like to either
steal it or spill it on the ground just to satisfy this envy>>
Don't believe this evil piece of propaganda put about by Bush, Cheney et al
to fool the simple minded that you have "God on your side". In a large
proportion of the thinking peoples of the world, the USA is despised for its
overbearing, cheap, decadent and greedy culture. YOU TOOK TOO MUCH "WATER"
at the expense of others. That is why you are hated.
Nick Palmer
