From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Thu 01 May 2003 - 18:03:59 GMT
> Joe's anti-Muslim bigotry is again manifesting itself.
>
> I call upon the list moderator to enforce again the ban on these
> postings to this list, or to remove the ban so that those who are
> abiding by it can if they so wish respond to Joe.
>
> Lawry
>
Please demonstrate where there is any anti-Muslim bigotry in my post.
I am quite certain that you cannot; all you can do is proffer groundless
ad hominem smears. I am simply stating facts, which are easily
verifiable, but from which you willfully avert your eyes. Ask the
Christian s and animists in southern Sudan if they are being
slaughtered by the muslims in the north for religious reasons or not. Or
go to Nigeria and try to hold another beauty pageant.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On
> > Behalf Of joedees@bellsouth.net Sent: Thu, May 01, 2003 1:18 PM To:
> > memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Ever Since Jeremy Bradley
> >
> >
> > > > Hokay. I would just like to point out that the US had to play
> > > > dirty pool with friendly dictators in order to effectively
> > > > contend with the Soviet bloc in the world arena, where they were
> > > > doing the same thing in spades. Once their totalitarian
> > > > hegemony crumbled, that unfortunate necessity was removed, and
> > > > our post-Soviet interventions have been mainly about toppling
> > > > despots and providing needed humanitarian aid. Virtuous
> > > > interventions (or attempts at them in the third case, or urging
> > > > and support for them in the last one) since then: Bosnia,
> > > > Kosovo, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Haiti, Panama, East Timor.
> > > > Also notice that the majority of these were in assistance to,
> > > > and not in oppression of, Muslims.
> > >
> > > Yeah I'd go along with the cold war thing, and the reality of
> > > operating in the era of the 'peace dividend', although the list
> > > above is less than impressive when marks are awarded (true for any
> > > nation though). And there are the agendas to be factored in (like
> > > a sex / real estate scandal, or a pipline from the russian oil
> > > fields to the Indian Ocean through as few countries as possible,
> > > or a tame replacement oil source for a flaky Venezuela, or another
> > > sex / real estate scandal). And btw anything the US does in
> > > Central or South America is suspect; leaving I think just Timor,
> > > which we did a bit of a Rwanda with (the Brits are most at fault
> > > there though, due to our shameful Indonesian ties).
> > >
> > It was only abut oil with the Russians, Germans and French, who had
> > the multibillion dollar contracts with a now-defunct regime. The US
> > was getting that oil anyway, through the UN oil-for-food program.
> > The oil companies were opposed to the war, preferring the security
> > of business-as-usual and caring not one whit about the people being
> > oppressed or the terrorists being paid. Actually, one could claim
> > that anything Clinton did was a diversion, since the Republicans
> > dogged him for that BJ and a real estate deal in which he lost 50K
> > for nearly his whole two terms. He acted in Bosnia and Kosovo
> > because people were dying on TV and the international community was
> > screaming, but Europe once again didn't have the cojones to clean up
> > its own back yard and the US, remembering bitter past experiences,
> > wasn't gonna wait around for a greater Serbia to be established like
> > a greater Germany was. Clearly, the US went to Afghanistan because
> > that's where Al Quaeda was based, not because of some proposed
> > pipeline. If Al Quaeda had been based in East Bumflick, after 9/11
> > the US military would've ended up there. Panama was just a case of
> > an autocratic ruler deciding to make his fiefdom into Cocaine
> > Transshipment Central.
> > >
> > > The argument about being pro- or anti-Muslim is a bit of a red
> > > herring: all this does is get every muslim's back up because it is
> > > the perceived anti-Arabism that is the problem (from 'them',
> > > although 'they' too have fallen into the shorthand of using Islam
> > > as the discriminator), not a more general Islamophobia; and
> > > talking about Islam all the time looks like an argument from
> > > ignorance. Plus the 'US is pro-muslim' thing is so transparently a
> > > post-hoc rationalisation of events that it could never bear any
> > > real weight. The argument should have been purely that the US is
> > > blind to race/creed (a subtle but very important distinction which
> > > avoids all this 'weighing'); I know that's not how you just
> > > phrased it anyway, but that is how it usually comes across in the
> > > media.
> > >
> > The majority of the US post-Soviet assistance and despot-toppling
> > has happened in Muslim countries simply because most of the
> > countries ruled by despots or in need of humanitarian aid are indeed
> > Muslim. You have to look for the quarter where you dropped it, not
> > where the light is better. However, it goes both ways; in East
> > Timor, it was the Catholics that were liberated from a Muslim
> > genocidal oppression. The common denominators found in the
> > destinations of the US' recent incursions do indeed seem to be
> > despotism and oppression.
> > >
> > > Cheers, Chris.
> > >
> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > Chris Taylor (chris@bioinf.man.ac.uk)
> > > http://bioinf.man.ac.uk/ »people»chris
> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > >
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