From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Mon 18 Nov 2002 - 18:15:21 GMT
> At 07:24 AM 17/11/02 -0800, you wrote:
>
> >SNIP..................Grant
> >Yes, the problem do lie within us. It lies within the way we are
> >creating the 21st century and a global economy that reaches out to
> >everyone on the planet while they want to keep the world in the 14th
> >century. We can't turn back time and evolution just for them. I
> >suspect most muslims would rather participate in the new global
> >culture but the people who control their religion are threatened by
> >it.
>
> Ah Grant
> I wanted to quit this strand, but you got me with this one. I have
> been wanting to discus the 'might-is-right meme' for a while but for
> some reason nobody wants to touch it. What we have here is a little
> example of it. Who wants a 'global economy' dominated by USAnian
> capital? You may 'suspect' Muslims would - but you won't know unless
> you ask them, and they won't be able to answer you because most of
> them wouldn't know what it means; I'm not too sure that I do. You and
> other RIGHT (not intimating correct here) minded people have assumed
> that you know what is best for others in the world on the basis of -
> well I don't know really.
>
It is actually the Radical Muslims that are willing to force their 'divinely
inspired' vision of what is best upon others. Radical Muslims can
observe their asceticism in a Western culture, but Westerners cannot
exercise their freedom in a Muslim culture. This is an excellent reason
for me to oppose the universalization of shar'ia law throughout the
globe.
>
>You have no evidence that you are any more
> moral than the next person other than a bunch of your fellow USAnians
> agree with you. That does not make you RIGHT - and I do mean correct
> this time. Your nation touts democracy but vetos or bullies the
> majority of other nations in the UN so as to get 'outcomes beneficial
> to US interests'.
>
Actually, removing that massive threat in the volatile region is a
massively beneficial outcome for Europe, as well. And they'll bitch and
moan about it all the way to benefitting from it.
>
>You demand democracy of other nations but imposes
> globalisation without asking.
>
People and entities make import-export deals with other people and
entities; private citizen to private citizen or corporation to corporation.
People who do not want the benefits of free and open trade should just
refuse to make the deals.
>
>You won't sign treaties on global
> justice, climate change, chemical and biological weapons (I'd like to
> see anyone try to get weapons inspectors into US stockpiles).
>
The US should've signed onto the Kyoto Accords on Global Warming,
but a laundry list of unrelated gripes with them provides no rationale for
opposing the particular course of action.
>
> Then
> there is the Marshal and Bikini Islanders and the previous residents
> of Diago Garcea, I wont go on but there is more of these disgusting
> atrocities and you know it so cut the high and mighty stuff! And the
> only justification for the US jugganaut is the MIGHT-IS-RIGHT meme. I
> just disagree with it, which doesn't make me bad, evil or wrong.
> Jeremy
>
The US is the country that leaves when the job is done, and sometimes,
as in Afghanistan post USSR retreat and in Haiti, leaves too soon. It's
soldiers have died to feed Somalis, to save the lives of Bosnians and
Kosovars, and to free Kuwaitis and Afghanis, Muslims all. It has
released the occupied nations of Japan, West Germany and the
Phillipines (among others) to their own democratic governments and
administrations, rebuilt Europe and Japan after it freed one and
defeated another, and gifted Panama with a canal it had itself built.
More often than not, the US has exercised its might attempting to SET
things right; attempts that have also been, more often than not, heavily
solicited by their beneficiaries.
>
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