From: derek gatherer (dgatherer2002@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Thu 27 Nov 2003 - 09:03:10 GMT
Keith: Unfortunately it only takes one society with a
falling income per capita to attack a neighbor and
when *that* happens, the attacked group has a well
evolved mechanism to fight back and crush the
attackers. (And even to lash out at third parties who
were not your
attacker but just looked a bit like the ones that
attacked you.)
Joe: Yep; that's why jihadis are journeying from all
over the Ummah .... etc
Derek: Come on, Joe, cool it. You've got Keith
back-to-front. The nation with the falling per capita
income is Saudi Arabia, as is made clear in Aaron's
recent article (What am I doing? recommending people
read Aaron? urgent need coffee......) The nation
doing the crushing is obviously the USA. The third
party is obviously Iraq. Nobody is suggsting America
will be crushed. I'm sure Keith is not making the
point you seem to think he is making, but rather the
opposite point.
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