--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jyouells2000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The leadership of the USA consciously chose to kill to prempt > greater killing in the future. Trying to accomplish the near > impossible in the middle east, a functioning representative > democracy. I think that this was seem as the 'least evil' > solution to an intractable problem. As far as perpetuating > violence: there was and is plenty to go around. The US goal > is to diminish it. The Islamofascist goals are to topple > major economies and political systems thru violence and > terror. If you can't turn the killer into a peace lover, > do you kill him or let him continue to kill?
John, I usually appreciate your point of view here, but if you honestly believe that the US goal is to diminish violence in the world, you really owe it to yourself to download and watch a three-hour BBC series called "The Power of Nightmares." It is available for download from: http://www.archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmares The authors of this series trace the roots of modern problems back to their source, and make a strong case for the stance of both the US Neocons and the Islamic fundamentalists as *perpetuating* violence in the world. It's part of a conscious, well-documented strategy on both sides. This is a *powerful* series, that leaves the viewer with very little doubt about the real motivations of those who stay in power by "selling nightmares." They do this because they have no positive dreams to sell. Watch the series -- all of it -- and then come back here and tell us if you still believe that America's intent is to diminish violence in the world. The fascinating thing, for an open-minded TMer, is to watch the series and think about how Maharishi's language has shifted over the years into the realm of scare tactics. He still talks about Sat Yuga and a better world, but his fund-raising efforts these days are more often than not tied to pronoun- cements of impending doom if people don't send in their checks. And for the *same* reasons as the Neocons and the Islamic radicals == they are selling a fundamentalist vision of a world in which *they* are in charge. That is the only world they can imagine that would suit them. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
