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Re: Thinking Out Loud...
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Wed, 19 Sep 2001 16:58:37 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
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> snippo
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> Read some of the links posted here, the interviews with him, the link I gave
> here: http://news.lugnet.com/off-topic/debate/?n=12938, the NYT article
> analysing the fundamentalist message.
I read that article from the New Yorker -- a really valuable perspective
piece I thought. Vollmann does more than describe the Taliban message too,
he gives a good background on how they were brought to power by decades of
misery in Afghanistan.
> "freedom is good" snipped
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> And I think their statement deserves a reply. It is not the duty of the US
> to right all the world's evil. But if in going after the perpetrators of
> this particular evil we happen to take a fundamentalist dictatorship or two
> down, that's OK by me.
But it's not a "conventional" dictatorship. There is no charismatic despot,
no military junta; just a whole lot of fundamentalist imams and a generation
of men whose only education was war and the Koran. I don't believe that
"toppling a dictator" is ever sufficient to change a country's government:
in Afghanistan there isn't even a dictator to topple.
--DaveL
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| (...) Agreed. I wasn't keen on the "nation building" exercise we tried in Somalia, it failed dismally. But maybe that's what is required here. I have no idea. What's the alternative though? I am *opposed* to just going in and indiscriminately (...) (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Well... I heard them. I heard what they were saying BEFORE this. bin Laden's jihad isn't just about Israel being mean to the Palestinians. It's way more than that. Read some of the links posted here, the interviews with him, the link I gave (...) (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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