Re: Keepin On...'Best Kept'

From: rdoubleu (rob1@audiogalaxy.com)
Date: Wed Sep 12 2001 - 20:53:41 CEST

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    No one said that what happened was the US' (or anyone besides those that carried
    it out) fault. The point, as I took it, was that for many Americans, it is
    important to realize that we helped train and create the power-structure for
    these "monsters," and left unsaid, but I think implied, is that while
    yesterday's attacks are some of the most evil, awful things we've ever seen, the
    US *has* done many unjust things that have inspired hatred of us in the rest of
    the world. Many Americans do not realize that. It's simply a bit of
    perspective.

    Peace (for real)
    /Robert

    PS: (and back to the music) Gil Scott-Heron's "Work For Peace" from his less
    than stellar Spirits LP, is actually a really good song, and a nice mantra for
    this day of mourning.

    Steve Catanzaro wrote:

    > And the point here is, what, exactly? The US taught people how to overtake
    > civilian jets and steer them into the most heavily populated civilian area
    > of a country?
    >
    > Sadly, I guess I shouldn't find it surprising that even today, some would
    > suggest the US is in someway responsible for turning these people into
    > deranged monsters who would perpetrate such an unthinkable, cowardly, act of
    > treachery! America created Timothy McVeigh? America created Bin Laden? Yet
    > evil existed in the world far before America, did it not?
    >
    > The CIA didn't tell invent the tale of how the suicidal members of this
    > death cult would receive, as a reward, a painless death, an immediate entry
    > into heaven and 71 beautiful virgins waiting to please them on the other
    > side.... did it?
    >
    > How about maybe giving the US a break on this one... or is that too
    > unthinkable, even today?
    >
    > > We should never forget that the environment that has provided Bin Laden
    > with
    > > recruits, arms, tactics and money was carefully cultivated by CIA
    > operatives
    > > during the cold war. In too many ways, these demented people are not so
    > > different from Timothy McVeigh.



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