Re: The Iraq war was extropian? Re: [Iraq] The real reason for the war

From: Jeff Davis (jrd1415@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Jun 15 2003 - 14:39:19 MDT

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    --- John K Clark <jonkc@att.net> wrote:

    > I've asked this question several times but never got
    an answer, if the incredible rage in the Islamic
    community that has no rival in the modern world was
    really caused because they thought a tiny sub group of
    them that most have never seen and lived thousands of
    miles away were mistreated then you would expect an
    ever greater homicidal rage in another people who were
    far far more horribly treated. So why are Jews not
    crashing airliners into German skyscrapers?

    With respect, John, the two situations are
    sufficiently different to question the strength of the
    analogy.

    The war against the nazi's --it is necessary to
    distinguish between nazi's and Germans--is over, and
    the nazi's are beaten, disposed of, and their
    "message" not merely discredited, but assigned an
    enduring place in modern culture as an exemplar of
    evil. Whatever nazi's remain are hunted relentlessly.
    While in historical treatments there is the most
    severe intolerance for anyone inclined towards what we
    hold culturally axiomatic, that there is always
    "another side of the story", ie, the nazi side. (I
    cringe even writing the sentence.)

    In contrast, the "action" against Islam--and in
    particular in Israel/Palestine--and the process of
    legitimizing it, is ongoing and expanding. The US and
    Israel hold the "action" to be defensive, while much
    of the non-Muslim world and all of the Muslim world
    view these "actions" as an ongoing criminal
    aggression. And, of course, on all sides, truth
    becomes an unwelcome stranger. An unaffordable luxury
    to the aggrieved, and a death sentence to the guilty.

    In short, Nazism vs the Jews is a dead issue, while
    the US/Irael vs Islam is a very-much-alive-and-ticking
    time bomb.

    Best, Jeff Davis

    "Enjoying being insulting is a youthful corruption of
    power. You lose your taste for it when you realize how
    hard people try, how much they mind, and how long they
    remember."
                                Martin Amis

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