You could in part have a point, but I don't see it that way, because I have never studied that era. It seems to me we only need to go back to the time of the Russian invasion of Afghanistan:Read on....
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO109C.html
Can you handle this kind of truth, dear Wolf?;-)
The chickens the West raised are coming home to roost!!! Now they are cowards, scumbags, our worst enemies we have to fight ferociously!! Ha... we have made ourselves the laughing stock of the Muslim world. :lol:
Good.... They need to laugh about something to lighten up
To save face the
Christian Right has sprung to life! Here is a short excerpt:
"Most egregious, and certainly paralleling terrorism’s culture of death is the fundamentalist Christian contempt for life—I repeat: contempt for life. Forcing females to have children without providing what they need financially, emotionally, and educationally is a pro-birth agenda that murders countless bodies and souls. Because they don’t think the Sermon on the Mount is really very important, these individuals have an appalling disconnect, fawning over the decaying body of a woman in a permanent vegetative state
while praising the demise of over 100,000 innocent Iraqi citizens and touting the patriotism of some 1,600 dead U.S. troops. (the # has changed since 05)
The religious right of twenty-first century America is
anti-American,
inherently violent, and a
cruel, tyrannical, punitive, force of death and destruction. (how true!!) In its mindset, adult human lives do not matter because the human condition itself is inherently evil resulting in eternal and everlasting punishment in hell unless its members are redeemed in a prescribed manner by the fundamentalist God/man/savior, Jesus Christ. Moreover,
with an embarrassingly adolescent flamboyance, Dominionists shamelessly rape, pillage, and desecrate the earth because in the first place, their Bible has given them authority over all things human, and in the second place, their “imminent” apocalyptic rapture, transporting them from the human “veil of tears” to live happily ever after in heaven, entitles them to do so. Meanwhile, we the unredeemed, the unbelievers, the poor, the feminists, the gay and lesbian, the disabled, the homeless, the mentally ill, the addicted, and those who are conscientiously following divergent spiritual paths of their choice, are suffering in the wake of
Christian fundamentalism’s devastation of the economy, the earth, and the human race. etc"
Now, does anybody still want to toot we in the West are not capable of religious fanaticism? The question is who is worse... we or "them"?
Nobody ever said there weren't Christian nutbars. They come in every faith and one is as rabid as the next. I don't think we've heard any rousing choruses of Onward Christian Soldier as troops headed off to Afghanistan ... as we have curses of Infidel.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8816.htm
No, we don't have to!! We didn't need to keep extending and extending and increasing our troops. Where does it say so? Our present government
wants to, that's why we are still there and keep increasing troops. Harper is a secretive, conservative Christian, just like or even better than Bush.
When troops are under fire - whether helping an old lady across the street or rattling a Taliban cage - do you expect then to just line up like tin soldiers of old and fall like shooting gallery duckies? Can you imagine the sheer numbers of Afganis who would be murdered by these extremists for non-conformity if there weren't people there to witness - and shoot? Guys are being hurt, maimed and killed by improvised explosive devices while not even involved in combat. Do you really think these mines are selective and can tell the difference between a Canadian soldier, a goat handler or a three-year-old Afghani kid?
Yes, that is 18th century mentality!!! Where fathers beat their sons, and teachers did likewise! We now live in the 21st century, we have made progress in our development as humans, or at the least we should have. Personally, I like to see WWII as the dividing line for humanity to have grasped that wars do not solve conflict, war rather creates more conflict and more war. That insight is sorely lacking in the minds of most of the participants in this thread. They want to be heros, want to be proud of our troops, want to emphasize how kind and helpful and selfless we are, but they do not hesitate to put a bullet through little Omar's head! Hypocrites!!:roll:
You totally overlooked (or ignored) the analogy of Canadian stubborness - and how when things get tougher our resolve strengthens. There was no reference to abused kids. If that's the parallel you've drawn and the life you've known, I'm sorry for your sadness.
Yes ...people are comfortable in putting time constraints on timeless things. The world existed long before WW2 ... or the Declaration of Independence ... or Noah's Ark ... or the dinosaur extinction. You can't go putting arbitrary start dates on deep roots.
Omar has no part in this, but there is danger in the road he knows too. If the life you know causes you to see a father beating his kids, imagine what danger a "kid" who only knows how to hate, kill and be a terrorist for the good of Allah would be on streets full of rage, guns and vulnerable people.
One important thing I learned as a small child from my Nazi parents through their example... be polite, friendly and helpful to POW, whether they be Poles, Russians or French. (We only had those three nationalities working on the farm)
Friendly and helpful.... Were you in the Resistance?
I apologize for the length of my post, but I hope you, lone Wolf, will read it nevertheless.
