> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Barker [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 7:08 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: OT: Terry Jones (from Monty Python) on War
>
>

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> Anyway I would like all you right wing war mongers out there
> to ask yourself
> one question: Why ?
>
> Why does someone give their life to destroy.  Why does
> someone train for
> months and kill themselves flying a plane into a building.
> Do you think
> they are all 'nut jobs'.  Once you answer that question there
> will be no
> more terrorism.  Address the injustices of world and listen
> to the people,
> then you will find that they will be your friend and not your enemy.
>

While I do not consider myself a war monger I think the why is obvious.

In the Arab world children are raised by religious schools that teach them
to hate. They are taught that it is their duty to kill and die in the name
of their god. These schools are built and funded by the Arab governments,
particularly Saudi Arabia and Iran.

The Arab world has created a generation of hatred that they must now aim at
an external enemy or it will turn inward and destroy them.

You say we need to address the injustices in the world. This somehow always
seem to mean that I am living too well and so it is my fault that their
government chooses to keep all the wealth in their country. Since their
government will not feed them I must do so or I am somehow being unjust.

Perhaps if some of the devout Muslim leadership in the Arab world took their
oil money and invested it in new industry and businesses in their own
country, instead of flying into Las Vegas or Monoco to drop a few million at
the tables, the lives of their people might improve.

As I have said before, America can do no right in the eyes of the world. We
committed the unpardonable sin of being successful while allowing our people
to live free.

Comments are my own, not my employer's... etc.





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