From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Sat Sep 15 2001 - 00:32:38 MDT
> to get any
> troops to Afghanistan, we'd have to go through Pakistan. Would they let
> us? Not likely. The conquest of Pakistan would have to be first. Will
> other Muslim nations just stand by? You see where I'm going. We're
> flirting with a world war between Islam and the West.
Wonderful! After the war, gasoline will be 17 cents a gallon in the West, and
we can rebuild the WTC with the bones of dead religious fanatics.
> And guess what: that's Bin Laden's program. That's exactly what he
> wants. That's why he did this.
Nonsense! He did this because he _could_ do it, and because he could _not_ do
it to Israel
-- they're too savvy.
> Read his speeches and statements. It's
> all right there. He really believes Islam would beat the west.
Yeah, right. He couldn't even beat the west side of NY.
> It might
> seem ridiculous, but he figures if he can polarize the world into Islam
> and the West, he's got a billion soldiers.
Ridiculous! Muslims are ready to hand him over now, if the US asks for his
wretched ass.
> If the west wreaks a
> holocaust in those lands, that's a billion people with nothing left to
> lose, that's even better from Bin Laden's point of view.
That's why "the west" is not going to do any such thing. We're going to beat
them the same way we beat the other enemies of freedom, by showing them that
their oppressive system is incapable of success (besides being sick, wrong,
stupid, ugly, irresponsible and monstrous).
> He's probably
> wrong, in the end the west would win, whatever that would mean
"probably" wrong? Tamim Ansary: the new world's champion of understatement.
Yes, the west (spell that N - A - T - O) will definitely win, and it will mean
that we've proven that religious fanatics should all go to the imaginary
paradise that they so fervently believe in -- we're here to help.
> but the
> war would last for years and millions would die, not just theirs but
> ours. Who has the belly for that? Bin Laden does. Anyone else?
> Tamim Ansary
OK, fess up... "Tamim Ansary" is actually Saddam Hussein, right?
You really think people in America are stupid enough to believe this bilge?
The US kicked the stuffing out of Iraq in '91, and where were the "millions"
of US casualties? Compared to Iraq and Saddam, Afghanistan and Bin Laden will
be like squashing a cockroach. Your propaganda is weaker than 3.2 beer,
"Tamim"
Useless hypotheses, etc.:
consciousness, phlogiston, philosophy, vitalism, mind, free will, qualia,
analog computing, cultural relativism, GAC, Cyc, Eliza, cryonics, individual
uniqueness, ego, human values
We won't move into a better future until we debunk religiosity, the most
regressive force now operating in society.
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