[extropy-chat] War of Ideology

[Adrian Tymes]

*cough*  I did say "part", right?  As in, "this is a
subset of the cause, neither 0% nor 100% of it"?

--- Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at gmail.com> wrote:

> It conveniently puts the blame on "them" and their
> wacky ideology. It
> is of the same cloth as Bush claiming they "hate us
> because we are so
> good."   Any thinking person who bothers to research
> the history of
> our involvement in that part of the world knows this
> is a LIE.   I
> guess though we'll have to distinguish between
> Republican truth and
> Arab truth and leave truth itself a casualty.
> 
> -s
> 
> On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 09:55:38 -0700 (PDT), Adrian
> Tymes
> <wingcat at pacbell.net> wrote:
> > --- Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > But to now posit an
> > > ideological war as being largely the "why" of
> > > terrorism and hardly
> > > bothering to mention US polcies fueling anger
> > > throughout the region
> > > says that this Commission was a political puppet
> of
> > > the current
> > > adminstration with no credibility whatsoever.
> > 
> > Oh, they mention the policies.  That's part of the
> > source of the ideological war.  But whatever the
> > cause, the result is still the result - and merely
> > removing the cause won't necessarily fix
> everything
> > (even if it would help a lot).