>Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:59:58 +1000
>From: Miriam English <miriam@werple.net.au>
>Subject: Re: TERRORISM: Is genocide the logical solution?
>There are a few problems with this.
>It takes a single generation to change a society beyond recognition. If the
>people of Afganistan were liberated and went back to being a more
>westernised country like they seem to have been before the fundamentalist
>bullies dug in over there, then a single generation (25 years) could see
>them becoming one of the greater forces for good on the planet. As an
>example I believe Ireland's biggest export today is software. Who would
>have thought it a bare 20 or 30 years ago?
I'm trying to figure out just what Ireland you're referring to. It's none
that I've ever lived in, although we are pretty big in software these days.
James...
"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and
crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures
to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid."
-Q, Star Trek:TNG episode 'Q Who'
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