Re: Why Americans don't know what the rest of the world knows

From: fresh~horses (fresh~horses_at_despammed.com)
Date: 08/15/04 

Date: 15 Aug 2004 10:15:58 -0700

"C Kent" <CKent@nospam.net> wrote in message news:<tRdTc.24039$Jp6.7982@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net>...
> "liaM" <lhooq@email.com> wrote in message
> news:ceo6k0$5n5$1@news-reader5.wanadoo.fr...
> > How is terrorism fought ? by reacting to their threat in a climate of
> > fear with war in distant lands and defensive barriers and partial
> > abrogations of civil rights at home.
>
> It shoud be fought by simultaneously 1) KILLING any and all existing
> terrorist, and 2) draining the swamps (i.e. conditions) that breed
> terrorists (so there aren't so many you have to KILL in the future) by
> promoting democratic governments educational reforms and free markets
>
> > We prefer to wait
> > until a catastrophe hits rather than treat the problem when small.
> > The people in Los Angeles were long warned about their roofs made of
> > wood shingles, but it's not sure even now 5 or more great fires
> > later, whether they have switched to baked earth tiles..
>
> A good argument for pre-emption, IMHO. Only a fool would wait for another
> Pearl Harbor or another 9/11.

9/11 was the result of American behaviour in the rest of the world not
the other way around. As long as American greed and mayhem causes
death and suffering *over there* Americans don't give a damn. Hell
most Americans don't even know.

Some people learn hard.

Zee

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