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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Nim: [QB] WizArtist II, you need to practise your textual analysis, still a lot of kneejerk to it. Bin Laden, you wrote: [QUOTE]All that we have mentioned has made it easy for us to provoke and bait this administration. All that we have to do is to send two Mujahideen to the furthest point East to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al-Qaida, in order to make the generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic, and political losses without their achieving for it anything of note other than some benefits for their private companies.[/QUOTE]This guy has a dry sense of humor, I have to respect that. Of course much of the speech is propaganda, when you are beset like Bin Laden you'd have to take every chance to get the word out, but there are some interesting nuggets and grains of truth in that letter. Even though some of it is post-speculation, the author shows much more subtlety and afterthought than he's made out to be capable of on the news networks. And GOD had much less to do with his explanations of his actions than I would have expected. Da_bang80: Your black/white view on religion is a typical child of its time and understandable, I used to feel that way too, but although some would argue that the antiquated views on human origin and responsibilities that the four world religions offer are arbitrary and constraining, they just take another (older) route of explaining the reality around us than we secularized guys do. Oftentimes we're as smart and as dumb anyway. Here comes the old hat... Countries and peoples can be just as horrible and misguided without religion, like in Stalinist Soviet, Nazi Germany or any other of the extremist secular nations in modern history,a nd the greatest atrocities in history need not be guided or misguided by religion at all to happen, like with the japanese experimentation camps in China, where they dissected live humans and raped women only to cut out the future fetus to experiment on it too. Those doctors and officers were Buddhists and Shintoists, didn't keep them from compromising their souls (if one believes in souls). Our convictions seem to have surprisingly little to do with what ultimately goes down in the world. Mostly the screwups are due to bad timing, egotism and fear, and in that order the only cures are omniscience or altruistic subtlety (we need either Usul or a super-UN), advanced global ethics and communication (how long have we tried to get that to work? Still, I see seeds of hope everywhere) and about combatting fear, we need a new media system, one that doesn't rely on ratings to pick what story to fuel at any given point in time. Of course, that's as easy to execute as debunking the monetary system and doing a "Macross island" global gettogether or starting the Star Trek Federation penniless funding system. WizArtist II wrote: [QUOTE]Makes me wonder how much he pays his speech writers.[/QUOTE]Significantly less than Bush, and yet he comes off as much more factual and imaginative than any of Bush's folksy quips. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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