Mike Linksvayer wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 10:56:15PM -0700, Technotranscendence wrote:
> > I think the key here is US policy. Granted, the ones who committed today's
> > mass killings and their backers deserve punishment. Yet going forward, US
> > policy should be revised to only focus on areas of national interest. Why
> > get involved, e.g., with people you [meaning you Michael] don't trust? By
> > disengaging from regional conflicts, such as those in that cauldron known as
> > the Middle East, the ever balkanizing Balkans, Africa, and Latin America,
> > there would be less [foreign] people who would see the US as a party to
> > those conflicts and a potential target.
>
> US policy not only creates enimies, it funds them via the War on
> Drugs. The trade in illegal drugs is a major source of funds for
> the Taliban, Bin Laden, and other rogue states and criminal
> organizations around the world. See for example
> http://www.cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,201444-412,00.shtml or
> seach for combinations of drugs/heroin/burma/bin laden/taliban/north
> korea.
>
> > The Swedes and the Swiss seem to have a very low incident of terrorism for
> > that very reason. Note all the First World nations that do have high rates:
> > the US, Britain, France, and Italy. Don't you see the connection?
>
> You forgot Spain and Israel, high rates both. I see the connection,
> except for France and Italy, which I didn't realize had high rates
> of terrorism.
Yet Switzerland, as a major banking center of the world, is at least as
responsible for the types of 'repression' that these third world
a##holes yap about, but you don't see anything going on there, do you?
The countries that are targeted for terrorism are those who have been
most active in combatting it and spreading ideas of liberty, freedom,
and individual rights, which are anathema to the sort of control freaks
with anti-liberty mindsets.
Anyone who thinks the Taliban are to be considered agents of freedom are
seriously deranged.
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