To: K-list
Recieved: 2001/10/13 15:56
Subject: [K-list] Another perspective
From: Druout
On 2001/10/13 15:56, Druout posted thus to the K-list:
Dear Chris, Tony, List,
Ok, Sigh, I guess I may as well weigh in. Feeling in an unusually feisty
mood anyway.
This 60's rhetoric all sounds exactly like me 30 years ago! LOLOL Wow was
that period of useless, self destructive anger ever painful. :0
The Taliban made two vital mistakes, IMO--blowing up those protective
Buddhist statues and taking Christian women hostages while a Born again
Christian was in the White house. :0
I think when we start looking at *motives,* either theirs and ours, we get
sidetracked into justifying horrors committed on either side. I think fear
also motives the present anti American sentiment. No one wants a world
culture dominated by the US, but if we don't start learning to live in the
present, and start understanding present realities, without fear and hatred,
we will all suffer. Most Americans are well aware of Oil conspiracy
theories. BTW! True or false, they are only one part of a much larger
picture, IMO.
The following rather centered me. It's from an old K-list member.
Love,
Hillary
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Current International Situation - A Personal View.
Hello All,
Hope you are all keeping healthy fit and well wherever you may be, and
particularly those of you in the USA with the recent troubles so close at
hand and fresh in mind. The world is a charming place to find oneself in at
times is it not. But it is a world in which there is a time and place for all
things, and events here certainly seem to dictate that all possible
contingencies have to unfold and be played out to a conclusion one way or the
other. Peace is an ideal, whilst violence and aggression are an unfortunate
extant fact of life here as yet.
Personally I have been very impressed with the patience and diplomacy with
which the USA have handled this situation, and the manner in which military
and diplomatic action has been taken hitherto. In war (which this is not in
the strict sense of the word) one has to act, or succumb to the inevitable
other alternative; which is not an alternative. In war there is only one
rule, and that is to win it. But this is the first kind of international
hostility which I have encountered wherein there is so much consideration,
and assistance where possible, for the civilians and non combatants of a
hostile nation; and which presents a whole new ball game, and a difficult one.
Irrespective of ones social philosophy and political ideologies I do not
think that any sane, civilised human being could condone, or turn a blind
eye, to the way people, particularly woman and children, are being treated in
that land by the incumbent regime, for it is appalling and denigrates human
beings and life itself. Yet despite this blatant fact, and which is
substantiated by everyone with first hand experience of it, youths in other
countries are hypnotised and brain washed into seeing it as a religious war
on Islam; instead of an attack in self defence on a current system of cult
terrorism which unleashed the first acts of violence.
Many a time I have personally said that religions of priestcraft are the
worst virus ever to plague the human mind; I said it forty years ago and I
still say it today, for it messes with peoples minds, and is itself a hard
core brain washing system, but fundamentalism, wherever it exists is the
epitome and cutting edge of its danger.
It is true enough that many people on earth do not like rampant monopoly
capitalism, and I am one of them. But in the countries where it exist, and
which is most of them, it does so by democratic means. People vote for it;
and the consensus must have what they want, and only change it when they want
and demand something different. But evidence suggest that the women and
children of the land in question did not vote for such an appalling existence
and domination, and those who would defend the perpetrators of it align
themselves with that regime and ideology, and no matter what land they live
in. Would they vote for it in their own land I wonder, and for their own
women and children to endure? I do not think so.
If a few nations decided to however, and in the name of a shared religion
(which it is not) then so be it; and the world would reap the harvest of
ignorance and destruction on a wide scale. It is interesting to note that
such young thugs are not old enough to have experienced real war and its
consequences. But such situations cannot be avoided at any cost, for to do so
would be to sell the whole of human dignity down the drain. This hostility is
not about religious ideologies it is about ignorance, brain washing, and the
way human beings treat other human beings. If men cannot fight for the
rights, the safety and dignity of their woman and children, then they are not
men, and they are not civilised. Would the rioting youth of Pakistan and
other such nations treat their woman and children that way? And do they have
the right to do so? No, they do not. And trouble comes to those who go
looking for it. The Western world did not start this one, but they could
certainly finish it if they had to. Let us hope that contingency does not
arise, and that sanity can prevail, and improve peoples situations as soon as
possible. But whilst people on earth starve and freeze to death then the
world can never know real peace, for it is a small world in which none can be
isolated from the rest - and do not ask for whom the bell tolls; for we all
know.
Sincere regards to all subscribers. Dick.
rwrATnospameggconnect.net
Love, Hillary
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