From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Sun Mar 09 2003 - 10:53:50 MST
Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>
> This stuff is important for Americans to realize.
> Even if you believe it is all wrong, we must
> recognize why so much of the world dislikes us.
> --
> Harvey Newstrom, CISSP, IAM, GSEC
I question the premise. The quiet majority in most
countries might like America and western Europe.
If one lives in a country where a few murderous
religious fanatics have an anti-west rally, then
it is wise to keep quiet.
Images of flag burning mobs sell newspapers. Peace
rallies sell newspapers. Did you know there were
a number of rallies in support of military action
in Iran? I never saw a word about it in the mainstream
press. By extrapolation, I must conclude that the
notion that much of the world is anti-west is an
intentionally myopic fabrication.
One can imagine a number of Iraqis and others in the
middle east desperately hoping for a US-led rescue.
Iraq must have its own budding young capitalists, its
frustrated intellectuals, its flaming athiests, feminists,
sexual revolutionaries, internet users, oppressed gays,
technophiles, classic liberals, hippies, libertarians,
progressives, its own extropians.
All these would yearn for a more western society.
Add them together and it *might* constitute a
terrified majority in these oppressed countries.
Let us not assume the world hates the west.
spike
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