On Feb 22, 2009, at 12:08 PM, Charles Bennett wrote: > I don't want to see the human rights abuses of the Taliban put back in > place under any circumstance.
I agree with you but we have to recognize that in much of the third world, including Afghanistan, the children of the 'progressive' ruling elites were sent of to Cambridge, Oxford and the US ivy league schools to learn how to 'lead their countries forward'. There they were indoctrinated with Marxism. This lead to a situation in much of the developing world where two factions: a progressive faction favoring communism, women's rights and secular government and a traditional faction favoring theocracy and traditional roles for women. Then the US decided it would be a great idea to give stinger missiles to the traditionalists. > The Afgan government has set a new standard for corruption and > incompetence so it won't surprise me > but it seems a damn shame to stand by and allow the women to be put > back under the yoke. The problem is that women indoctrinated from birth in these societies can't wait to get back under the yoke. You don't have to go to Afghanistan to see this. The women in the communities run by Warren Jeffs and his FLDS henchmen right here in the US were as downtrodden as those in Afghanistan. And yet very few have availed themselves of the opportunity to escape. It's not the kind of problem that can be solved purely with force, though force may be part of the solution. > Since we think we can spend our way out of the problem, producing > hellfire missiles could save the economy a million bucks a pop and > will keep many people employed in the US manufacturing sector. There actually is a distinction between spending and stimulus though the politicians and the media don't get it. I'm encouraged though. I watched the roundtable on the Stephanopoulos this morning and three of the five participants used the concepts correctly. - God must have loved the people in power, for he made them so much like their own image of him. -Kenneth Patchen _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
