Re: OT: White House Turkey

Clams Canino wrote:

> ....It is my considered opinion that we
> have seen the opening shots of WW3,

I'm not so sure. I think what we are seeing is an escalation of business
competition to include violence... of course, some businesses use this
routinely...

But seriously, who is giving money to the suicide bombers? It seems likely to me
that the World Trade Center was a very specific target picked for business
reasons and the 'sold' to the fanatics so that they *believed* it was the symbol
of Satan (or whatever the Muslim equivalent term would be). And these same
interests continue to funnel money into the terrorist channels because they gain
by it.

In the same way, you might say that we are seeing an escalation of global
cultural warfare. No place on Earth is out of reach of MacDonalds & Hollywood,
another symbol of Satan according to many. So those who really hate it lash out.



> we can spend 10 years trying to deny it
> and avoid it and *then* another 5 fighting it, or we can just spend 5 years
> fighting it and get back to our relatively peacefull lives. I don't have 15
> years to waste.

Do you genuinely think that we' be better off if GWB had given orders to nuke
every Muslim city on the planet by dawn Sept 12 2001? It's possible that we'd
have less of a problem with some specific groups of fanatics, but overall we'd
be much worse off IMHO.

I also find it very difficult to believe that we're any better off "fighting
terrorism" is Iraq. Not even close to the same group of people. It is just
economic warfare promoting some business interests in the USA (or just
offshore).

At least, that's the way it appears to me.

Regards
Doug King