On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 00:11:21 +0100, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Utter nonsense. Blaming radical behavior on poverty and bad conditions > is the old liberal excuse for everyone who can't behave. It no longer > holds water.
Really? Why? > Never has. Really again?? > Is that why Hitler wanted to kill the jews? Since when was Hitler a terrorist? > Radical Islam has a fundamental problem with everyone else in the world. > That makes them a problem. It has nothing to do with conditions. With respect, it has everything to do with conditions. When people have nothing, they have nothing to lose (to quote a Jewish poet). When people have money and security they become politically apathetic. Witness the turnout in US presidential elections. 200 years earlier the impoverished ancestors of modern Americans were committing horrid atrocities like destroying the life-blood of the British in Boston. > We tried the liberal cure in many places: Give them a lot of money and > better living conditions and everything will be okay. Never has worked. > Won't work now. Where did you try this? And did the usual American solution (bombs, napalm, etc) work any better? (I agree you did manage to invade Grenada successfully.) John >> > >> >> No they don't. They believe that by killing themselves and as many of >> us as possible they will be able to bring about some kind of >> improvement in the conditions they and their families live. Rightly or >> wrongly they blame these conditions on us. Mostly they live in shit >> conditions. If you lived in similar conditions you would probably want >> to kill someone to escape them. Treating them as lunatics, fanatics >> and demons does absolutely nothing whatsoever to stop terrorism. >> Finding out what their grievances are about, and doing something >> constructive to resolve them will help, even though it will take a >> long time, won't be glamorous and won't allow our glorious leaders to >> strut around in uniform on aircraft carriers. >> >> Bob >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
