Why can't you AC's get off of your high horse? The Internet is itself a liberating force. It offers a window to the outside in a country where your view of how things should be isn't the status quo. Linux enables people to use the Internet who otherwise wouldn't even have a glimpse of the outside world.
I congratulate the Saudi's for being open enough to allow this window to remain open, despite them knowing that people can easily circumvent the censorship.
Shame on all of you who impose your view of the world on others. The terrorist attacks were very wrong, nobody here is saying they weren't. But please at least acknowledge that they were born out of American ignorance to others, and the belief that you/they have the right to decide other people's destiny, and the right to intervene by supporting equally if not more brutal r'egimes when it suits you.
The Iraq situation and the media propaganda being spewed forth, is seperate from the war against terrorism. Nobody gave a hoot before this what the conditions were over there. Painting everyone in the arab world as a terrorist is asinine and dangerous. Equally as dangerous as the hopefully minority of arabs that views us all as jewish sympathizers and supporters. That mentality may well drag us all into an unnecessary and possibly escalating war. If you push them, they will resist. I doubt anybody would like to be 'liberated' in the mannor that Iraq has apparently been.
Lets try to work with them, instead of against them before your own cushy lifestyle is threatened further. Eastern Europe and the former USSR are examples of how democracy can be accomplished without American military intervention. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink as the saying goes.
Your government and its percieved mandate to free the world is I believe percieved by yourselves as a noble one, but is likely to cause a backlash against the very thing you seek to accomplish. You supported these r'egimes when it was convenient for you, and only recently decided to shut them down entirely. The majority of the world does not support this aggression, but is fearful of it.
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Posted by: Curtman on January 15, 2004 03:04 AMI congratulate the Saudi's for being open enough to allow this window to remain open, despite them knowing that people can easily circumvent the censorship.
Shame on all of you who impose your view of the world on others. The terrorist attacks were very wrong, nobody here is saying they weren't. But please at least acknowledge that they were born out of American ignorance to others, and the belief that you/they have the right to decide other people's destiny, and the right to intervene by supporting equally if not more brutal r'egimes when it suits you.
The Iraq situation and the media propaganda being spewed forth, is seperate from the war against terrorism. Nobody gave a hoot before this what the conditions were over there. Painting everyone in the arab world as a terrorist is asinine and dangerous. Equally as dangerous as the hopefully minority of arabs that views us all as jewish sympathizers and supporters. That mentality may well drag us all into an unnecessary and possibly escalating war. If you push them, they will resist. I doubt anybody would like to be 'liberated' in the mannor that Iraq has apparently been.
Lets try to work with them, instead of against them before your own cushy lifestyle is threatened further. Eastern Europe and the former USSR are examples of how democracy can be accomplished without American military intervention. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink as the saying goes.
Your government and its percieved mandate to free the world is I believe percieved by yourselves as a noble one, but is likely to cause a backlash against the very thing you seek to accomplish. You supported these r'egimes when it was convenient for you, and only recently decided to shut them down entirely. The majority of the world does not support this aggression, but is fearful of it.
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