From: Spike (spike66@comcast.net)
Date: Thu Sep 11 2003 - 00:53:15 MDT
From: Brett Paatsch
> Certainly the Saudi teenagers would see
> TV and ask "Why is it that the decadent and immoral
> west has so many cool things whereas we totally suck?"
Could be that the Saudi thesaurus has pages devoted to
decadent and immoral, but I wonder if they've a hit for "totally suck"?
Anyone seen Mez of late? Regards, Brett
Friends, at the heart of it, this is surely why these
people are escalating world war 4: they can't seem to
*make* anything. They seem incapable of generating
wealth, other than by selling their natural resources
for a song. Selling oil doesn't actually create wealth,
it merely distributes it. Microsloth, Apple, IBM and
Sun Microsystems create wealth.
Why do we have *nothing* in our homes made in Iraq?
In Iran? In any predominantly Muslim nation? Why is it
that they need to import foreign skill to get anything
built? Of course it leads to terrible culture wars;
it gives them such a deep seated self-hatred that they
treat their women as less than dogs. They feel threatened
by a freaking *doll* fer cryin out loud.
Perhaps the answer to middle eastern conflict is to
somehow inject a huge dose of unfettered capitalism.
How? spike
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