Actually I think a female Pakistani professor said it better on a BBC documentary recently. She said:
"The United States and the western world has to realize that one third of the worlds population is Muslim, and as long as they(we) stick to either ignoring or hating them, they(we) will never get to the root of why these horrible things happen".
She went on to say that we had the choice of learning to help people on their own terms, or kill them all, because our policy right now is definitely not working.
However tempting it might be, in these days of retaliation stupor, I think I would prefer listening to some hard truths and taking the long and costly road rather than killing one third of the worlds population.
(Maybe I'd support killing a few hundred terrorists first. I'm not inhumanly pacifistic)
Hmm, just as a thought experiment, let's say you get your anger out by taking a plane and crash into some high-rise full of innocent people in the middle east. (Of course you COULD take the more manly approach and just nuke the high-rise from afar, but hey that's up to you.)
Whichever way you do it the end result is the same: More angry people with a legitimate grudge that they think allow them to be just as horrifyingly cruel to innocent people.
Especially YOU who, as I, know people who perished, should be interested in stopping this circle instead of perpetuating it.
- If you don't know the evil that hunts you, how will you ever fight it? -
Uuuh I just love these statistical discussions that doesn't say anyhting... like did you know that the US spends twice the amount of money (per capita) than any european country and still, in 10 different areas, are rated lower than most european countries by WHO (even Portugal, go figure).
I mean what DO your doctors spend your money on?
Of course there is probably a good reason, but I just think it's ridiculous to use statistics the way you do. You can twist them any way you like, and make a cow look green if you really want to.
The fact remains that US law doesn't apply anywhere but the US, and frankly a lot of us think it's a bit embarassing that some people in the US should think otherwise. Large military or not.
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Actually I think a female Pakistani professor said it better on a BBC documentary recently. She said:
"The United States and the western world has to realize that one third of the worlds population is Muslim, and as long as they(we) stick to either ignoring or hating them, they(we) will never get to the root of why these horrible things happen".
She went on to say that we had the choice of learning to help people on their own terms, or kill them all, because our policy right now is definitely not working.
However tempting it might be, in these days of retaliation stupor, I think I would prefer listening to some hard truths and taking the long and costly road rather than killing one third of the worlds population.
(Maybe I'd support killing a few hundred terrorists first. I'm not inhumanly pacifistic)
Well, didn't you read the last Tom Clancy book?
- I wish Israel lay in the Mongolian outback, at least THEY wouldn't mind a little company -
Hmm, just as a thought experiment, let's say you get your anger out by taking a plane and crash into some high-rise full of innocent people in the middle east. (Of course you COULD take the more manly approach and just nuke the high-rise from afar, but hey that's up to you.)
Whichever way you do it the end result is the same: More angry people with a legitimate grudge that they think allow them to be just as horrifyingly cruel to innocent people.
Especially YOU who, as I, know people who perished, should be interested in stopping this circle instead of perpetuating it.
- If you don't know the evil that hunts you, how will you ever fight it? -
Uuuh I just love these statistical discussions that doesn't say anyhting... like did you know that the US spends twice the amount of money (per capita) than any european country and still, in 10 different areas, are rated lower than most european countries by WHO (even Portugal, go figure).
I mean what DO your doctors spend your money on?
Of course there is probably a good reason, but I just think it's ridiculous to use statistics the way you do. You can twist them any way you like, and make a cow look green if you really want to.
The fact remains that US law doesn't apply anywhere but the US, and frankly a lot of us think it's a bit embarassing that some people in the US should think otherwise. Large military or not.