I find siginificant irony in that it appears we will have been successful in accomplishing what Bin Laden couldn't: the establishment of an Islamic theocracy in Iraq. Weeeeee!!! So much for spreading democracy and freedom. Oh, but maybe I'm being too hasty. Maybe instead we'll get a full on civil war, with Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Syrai joining in the fun! We'll call it Lebanon 2.0!
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Wolf said:"If you really want to know the answers to the questions you pose above (and it really would behoove you to do so) i would strongly urge you to talk with some people of faith, which i expect you will find is far from a homogenous group. . ." This is a VERY good point wolf raises. The media does a lot of talking about specific Christian groups, such as Pat Robertson's as if that is the only Christian POV. We Christians are not any more homogeneous than the Muslims or the Jews. There are so many sects and sub-sects …
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Ah yes, the cluster bomb fiasco. Brightly colored as I recall to aid in speedy clean-up. Kind of backfired because those colors also attract children. As I recall they had similar SNAFUs in Afghanistan because some aid agencies were distributing food packets that were the same color as the bomblets. Kinda caused a lot of deadly confusion.
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I find it humorous that many Americans have the mentality that we're are the only ones who can be trusted to have nukes because somehow we posess the necessary moral fortitude to act responsibly. Some how I find our historical use of unrestricted bombing, over-seas intervention, etc... rendering any argument about our moral supperiority specious. Of course, I wouldn't expect anything less if the tables were turned and China were the world's sole super power. Even so, I still can't completely shake this feeling that we SHOULD be better than that when much evidence indicates that we are not.
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One other thing I forgot to mention is that fear or expediency doesn't excuse the killing of De Menezes by British police. Many of the facts as stated by the authorities are in dispute and not only by his relatives. One question I had was whether or not it would be possible for anyone wearing a bomb belt to vault a turn style as easily as the deceased has been described doing. How heavy or encumbering is such a suicide device? Another question I had is what kinds of doors does this open if someone can be more or less sumarily …
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