[lit-ideas] Re: Sustaining our Resolve
- From: jimkandjulieb@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 09:32:10 -0400
<<I'm still waiting to hear what we accomplished in Iraq, Lawrence.>>
It's just a guess, but I think we made Saadam stop killing Irqis so we and
they could do it ourselves.
Julie Krueger
----- Original Message -----
From: Lawrence Helm
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 8/19/2006 4:15:19 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Sustaining our Resolve
My point which you are evading is that we are in a war against Militant Islam
and Schultz has offered his opinions about what we ought to do. That is the
point of the article. You want to change it to a Leftist-quibble in order to
keep on moving on to blame America in some way, finding some way to blame
America instead of Militant Islam. We are at war but what you want to talk
about is a history of Americaâs sins seen through a Leftist magnifying glass.
Iâm sure Chomsky would agree with everything youâve said. As for me, I
donât find it all that interesting because I keep coming back to the Main
Point which is that we have a real war and a real enemy. Who does it do good
to keep on blaming America? Well it does the Militant Islamists good and it
apparently warms the cock les of the Leftist heart.
What an evil thing to oppose the USSR you suggest. I assume you think that,
for you have no blame left over for the USSR, only America gets blamed. You
imply that we created terrorism and Islamism; when what we did was use the
anti-USSR opposition at hand. I can assure you that they didnât need the CIA
to teach them how to do terrorism or assassination. Read Bernard Lewis book
The Assassins:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465004989/sr=1-6/qid=1155973990/ref=sr_1_6/103-3867507-5345466?ie=UTF8&s=books
.
Yes, I read about the Afghan war against the USSR at a time when the
information closest to real-time came from Soldier of Fortune magazine. No
other publication was reporting on events on the ground over there. It
didnât cause the slightest problem for me. I donât recall any of the
hate-America narrations that you found. SOF reported soldiers helping Muslims
fight against the oppressing USSR. I guess it all depends on your point of
view. Did you want to fight the USSR or did you want to fight the US. I was
apparently not as conflicted as you. Yeah I say it was good for us to win the
Cold War, and it will be good for us to win this war against Militant Islam. I
root for our side. I want us to win. I want Militant Islam to lose, but
thatâs ju st me.
By the way, I didnât think the note you seemingly refer to below was too
terribly long but you seem not to have read the whole thing. Brzezinski argued
in 1998 (but why am I telling you this when you probably wonât read this far
-- again) that there was no globalized Islam; so you could not possibly have
been aware of this while it was happening. I didnât read Ghost Wars, but
Iâve read books that cover the same information according to the reviews.
Lawrence
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