Vince: What flawed research material was Douglas working with? Chick: Any and all documentation and/or rhetoric that casts aspersions on someone or their group that is not founded in fact and that includes the "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion." The absolute stupidity that has gone on between the Catholic and Protestant Churches is another which has caused a constant war between the two and Ireland is a prefect example. ---------------------------------
The aspersions are distractions from the root of the problem that is primarily economic. They are rhetorically fighting battles that were concluded hundreds of years ago. In Northern Ireland, Bosnia, in the Middle East there are thousands and thousands of disoriented youth who have no future, on all sides of the ostensible conflicts. In Palestine the grievances are more recent, going back a century and especially a half-century with the establishment of the State of Israel. But even there the problem is mostly economic, entire generations without hope. Improve the economic condition and the rhetorical grievances will fade away. Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg was the turning point of the American Civil War. Prior to that the South had won every battle. A half-century later the surviving veterans reenacted the charge at the battleground. The Rebels advanced toward the Yankees with bayonets drawn. With families and friends watching, at the very place where so many died a half-century before, the Rebel and Yankee veterans shook hands. I have no doubt whatever that America has been able to solve its problems - such that they have been solved - because of general elevation of the economic condition that America has been able to achieve. The solution is not through education though education is part of the solution. More than one of the hijackers who flew into the World Trade Center were college educated. Men with hope, with families and children who have a future don't strap bombs around their waists or "kneecap" policemen, who are themselves just trying to do their jobs. _____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB, POP3, Spam Filtering with LYCOS MAIL PLUS for $19.95/year. http://login.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus&ref=lmtplus ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84IaC.bcVIgP.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/create/index2.html ==^================================================================
