[lit-ideas] Re: time for a re-think
- From: dsavory@xxxxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 13:08:14 -0800
Quoting Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >>The Hamas victory is a wake up call for the US,
> not the Middle East.
>
>
> One can still hope that it's a grow-up call for
> Hamas. One can hope that their seizing power will
> ultimately result in their becoming nonviolent and
> effective representatives of their new nation.
It's a little incongruous making this claim from inside a nation arrogantly
occupying another, having gone in under false pretenses and refusing to
renounce torture, wouldn't you say?
> Otherwise, yes, we may eventually have to
> exterminate them.
I hear your sardonic tone here but this is exactly the kind of thinking that
needs to be re-thunk. I'd like to hear you justfify it to anyone from the
Middle East who runs across it.
I think the Bush administration had this simple minded notion that giving
Saddam Hussein the bum's rush from Iraq would immediately result in Iraqi
versions of Bush and Cheney being ushered into power there while women in
tight skirts sit on curbs, pull on nylons and get kissed by sailors. People,
it's not gonna happen. They're gonna be as angry as we make them. It's like
bin Laden said "Did you notice we're not killing people in Sweden? It's
because we got no beef with Sweden."
It's about time we started respecting the Muslim world.
Expect me to say no more on this subject. More poetry!
David Savory
Vancouver
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