Posted on 04/15/2002 8:21:24 AM PDT by dead
what the world needs most is an ongoing, unconditional fairness revolution to eradicate the roots of rage.
Aussie beggar just wants our money.
The UN or World Court could put Osama bin Laden on trial, "even in absentia", condemning him and his network as criminals.
I could whistle “Stardust” out my ass, and it would be just as useful.
Network anchors dressed like brigadiers and frowned over maps.
I must have missed Dan Rather in the Captain Crunch suit.
The Taliban was a vile theocracy which subjugated women, mutilated criminals and disallowed free speech. It deserved to be crushed.
No, you idiot, it housed and supported the people who killed 3000 of our citizens. It deserved to be crushed.
the Unocal agenda was siphoning at least 60 billion barrels of oil (maybe up to 270 billion) from Turkmenistan, part of the last great resource frontier.
This planet’s apparently got an endless supply of “last great resource frontiers.” Is there any place with oil that isn’t the “last great resource frontier”?
The US response was reportedly succinct: "We will either carpet you in gold or carpet you in bombs."
“Reportedly” is code for “I just made that up.” Quality journalism, huh?
I’m bored with picking this screed apart. If you check out his “original article” (I use the term loosely, since the article is a bunch of tired cliches cobbled together poorly), you’ll find that the bug that originally crawled up his ass is the fact that we rejected Kyoto’s socialist global wealth redistribution scheme.
Bush's "new kind" of war in the name of freedom is actually an old kind of imperial excursion to extend America's grip on the wealth of the world. A wealth which belongs to everyone.
How much evil has sprung from that evil idea in the past century?
This says a lot about the author.
"Socialist movements" have killed far more people this century than the Nazis ever dreamed of, but we're supposed to embrace the next one.
We are sorry for inflicting clinton on the world. As for the rest of your complaints, drop dead. Someone has to lead and no one else is capable.
Uh, Nazism was a socialist movement.
The Aussies are good people but their press is dominated by peace-queers and commies.
Once the winds of war blow their way they'll wake up.
They shared some of the same goals and tactics, but they were their own breed of animal.
This is how misinformation is passed.
It's good to know that Freepers read books and know history.
On the morning of September 12 last year, my head still reeling from the previous night's footage of the attacks on New York and the Pentagon,...
Tuesday, September 11 at 10 AM in New York was Wednesday, September 12 at 7 PM in Sydney. The following morning in Sydney was Thursday, September 13.
Given that the very first words were a lie, I stopped reading at that point. How was the rest of the piece?
He basically nationalized Germanys factories on a war footing.
Yes, he became a ruthless, totalitarian a-hole but his roots were embedded in socialism.
Ho-hum.
Every liberal is a thug.
A cogent and honest analysis of the "roots of rage" which inspire the organization which carried out the 9/11 atrocities proves conclusively that said "rage" originates in a profound disagreement over the existence of us "infidels". It follows then, that a "fairness revolution" will do nothing except lead to the destruction of us "infidels". That is unacceptable to most of us.
Some called for a period of deep reflection. These voices were submerged in a sea of flags as the loudspeakers blared God Bless America
America had its period of deep reflection. But not so deep and self indulgent that it parlyzed action. The action of destroying al Qaeda and the Taliban arose from the necessity of self-defence, not the singing of some patriot songs. The displays of patriotism merely affirmed Americans support of this necessary action but it did not originate the action.
Among my reasons for opposing the action in Afghanistan was the awkward fact that the Taliban, however insufferable, did not plan or execute the attacks on the US. But why let the truth get in the way of a sitting duck?
No they merely sheltered and protected the organization that attacked the US and were at the same time unwilling to repudiate their relationship with that organization. Thus they rose and fell with al Qaeda. Good riddance to both. And despite having a long way to go, the Afghan people are far, far better off today than they were 6 months ago. But don't let the truth get in the way of your ideology (another sitting duck).
Was the Taliban really destroyed for harbouring terrorists? Or was it for failing to further the ambitions of Texan millionaires?
That this theory is still around testifies to the staying power of idiocy. Caspian Sea oil (and it really is not a terrifically significant amount) is located in a politically unstable, land-locked, geographically rugged and infrastructurally primitive region. In order for its reserves to become economically feasible, crude oil prices need to be in the $25US+ range. At that price it becomes feasible to extract oil from the tar sands in Alberta(est at least 1 trillion barels), a region that is geographically smooth with modern infrastructure and within the closest and most stable US ally, Canada. Gee, I wonder where the most secure supplies of oil will come from? Mexico, Venezuala and Brazil are others.
Even before the bombs fell on Afghanistan, the missiles of Noam Chomsky surged through cyberspace. One day a public cyber library will be built in his honour and our children will toast his devotion to freedom of thought.
Chomsky as a devotee to freedom of thought? RFLMAO. Just ask Christopher Hitchens or Michael Amis of what Chomsky's reaction is when someone dares to exercise their freedom of thought and disagree with the Noam. Chomsky seduces the intellectually naive by proposing to "liberate the mind from orthodoxy". Of course he can do no such thing, since he merely substitutes one form of orthodoxy for another. The only real intellectual response to orthodoxy is scepticism, and as Chomsky is philosophically a rationalist, scepticism is impossible for him. He is nothing more than an intellectual con-artist, albiet a brilliant one.
America had its period of deep reflection. But not so deep and self indulgent that it parlyzed action.
There are many, like this author and Chomsky, who feel that “reflection” is action.
They, thankfully, don’t run the world.
(insightful comments, btw)
Wow, are you off on this statement. Hitler was a Fascist, which is a far cry from Socialism. Socialism deals with distributing wealth, whereas Fascism incorporates a totalitarian government which dictates more than just the economy, often including race preferential. For example,Hitler's tyranny over the Jews, and the confiscation of all citizen's guns.
I could whistle “Stardust” out my ass, and it would be just as useful.
How about a right proper "censure"? That would show him. "Osama! You're censured!"
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