lowing wrote:
I foresee another knock down drag out battle with you Cam, but here it goes:
Throughout the centuries, the west has fought and worked for positive progress forward. Yeah, it was at times through war and conquest, but none the less the end result is a progressive society evolving for the better.
The ME is fighting to maintain a stone age belief and culture. It is not interested in peace or peaceful co-existence.
Obviously unaware of the Spanish Inquisition, witch burning, KKK, massive wars over 'who gets to be pope', burning 6 million Jews (thank the perpetrators for your rocket technology and many medical breakthroughs), forcibly using black people to pick cotton cos we were too lazy, exploiting children in third world countries for cheap labour and profit, engaging in wars that killed thousands in distant unrelated non-threatening countries just because of ideological differences, espousing 'democracy' on one hand and tacitly and sometimes overtly supporting dictatorships on the other (in our own interests)....
All the west has ever worked for is the interests of the elite and in the interests of making money, pure and simple.
You really look at 'the west' through unbelievably rose-tinted glasses, you really do. Smell our own shit lowing. It stinks. Especially coming from the country elements of whose right wing have a penchant for stone age beliefs and culture themselves (Evangelical Christianity). I don't care what you think about their culture, I have a feeling they don't care what you think about it either and quite frankly they will believe what they like and you can like it or lump it. Your irrational obsession with their beliefs is mighty odd: I guess you have to take an interest in where your next tranche of government-sponsored war profiteering is going to come from...
The bottom line is this: if you don't like their culture then you should mind your own business back in the US and if they don't like your culture then they should mind their own business over in the middle east. Anyone who is sane and rational in either culture should be free to consort with the other amiably (i.e., the vast majority).
PS If the entity of the Middle East, as you referred to it, was inherently unpeaceful, then how come the 'carnage' is limited to only a handful of countries and how come Jordan and Egypt have adhered to a
peace agreement they signed with Israel for some..... 29 years?
Content to stay in the stone age?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4085486.stm --> Same shit was happening in the west about a century ago. Progress. Newsflash: things don't magically transform overnight.
Last edited by CameronPoe (2008-11-16 16:52:05)
