Re: The job of NASA

On 26 Nov, 17:32, Eric Chomko <pne.cho...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Nov 25, 9:39 am, Ian Parker <ianpark...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

BTW - I would also like to make one point about the Arab world. In the
Arab world one's private life is a locked door. Saudi Arabia talks
about domestic violence only with considerable reluctance.

One question for America. How can you seriously expect the Arabs to
want democracy, when what they see of democracy in America (although
not so much in France) is so completely alien to their mindset. This
is so both of religious and secular Arabs.

The women in Saudi Arabia won't be able to be held back forever.
They'll have the suffragette movement and I'm going to laugh like hell
when it happens.

You are about the only person who has made an intelliogent comment.
Yes indeed. I think a fundamental revision is neded in Middle East
strategy. I have just come back from visiting Syria. Let me say at
once that the régime has it faults. However what you see around you is
a tolerant society. My wife one of whose hobbies is collecting ikons
bought an ikon in Damascus just before we returned home.

This may seem like a very modest feat looking at it though Western
eyes, yet it is something few countries in the Middle East have been
able to manage.

Saudi - you are joking! I feel that the future of the Middle East lies
with secular Arab régimes, and if we are going to have a presence
there - one option is to wash ones hands completely of course, this is
the type of government we should be encouraging. I think I said this
earlier, but if you have 3 people it would not be right to have 2 of
them voting to kill the third. This was put to me by a teacher when I
was in the sixth form. For most of my life it has been lying dormant,
siomething like the propositions of metamathematics, but Iraq has
brought it to the fore. This is what is happenning, encouraged/
connived at by the Americans.

Saudi Arabia is a losing wicket. If you have a religious based society
it is going to drive out those people who do not agree with it.


- Ian Parker
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