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12/02/2008 06:56:26 PM · #101 |
| Well, I'll hope against the odds that Moshe learns from this experience as he grows older and becomes an atheist and a humanist instead of a vengeful religious nut. |
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12/03/2008 01:08:18 PM · #102 |
Originally posted by JMart:
Such an amazing degree of dehumanizing hatred is incomprehensible to me, and granted, I don't live in an area frequented by terrorist attacks, but it just seems like the differences between these rival groups gets amplified to murderous levels by their blind faith in these stone age myths. :-/ I would like to think that my old college friend represented just a minority in the Israeli community, but I worry that he may have been closer to the mainstream. |
I have, unfortunately, had similar arguments with Jewish friends who wonder in amazement that I have any sympathy for muslims who are "dirty" and "abominable".
I have also had arguments on these Rant pages with certain (Christian) Americans who wonder how anyone could support Palestinians given that as a race they are sufficiently uncaring that they send their children out as suicide bombers.
From a moderate and relatively impartial vantage point, these arguments are as objectionable as those propagated by the terrorists.
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12/03/2008 01:19:57 PM · #103 |
PS I had a meeting yesterday with a supplier who was in the Taj hotel in Mumbai and held hostage by the terrorists. He was very lucky - he was not in his room when it was blown to smithereens, and the group of people he was with were rescued by the Indian commandoes in a firefight in which he was unscathed (but in which others, including the terrorists holding them at gunpoint, were killed). From the relatively little that he wanted to talk about, it all sounds far more horrific than any news images can convey.
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12/03/2008 03:03:34 PM · #104 |
Originally posted by Matthew:
Originally posted by photodude:
I see no other way of stopping all of this. I am tired of playing defense. And again - nobody is offering another solution here! If you have one we are all waiting to hear it. |
No terrorist ideology has ever been successfully defeated through military action. |
Thomas L. Friedman agrees, and has a suggestion ...
On a disturbingly coincidental note, on Dec. 3, 1984, more than 4,000 people died after a cloud of gas escaped from a pesticide plant operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, India. |
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