Jonathan Clarke wrote:
> >There are other free, wealthy, and powerful countries out there who do
> not suffer terrorist outrages
> > to anything like the same degree. They have to do with a hypocritical
> and self-serving foreign policy and bully-boy military actions.
Spoken like a true outsider. All countries have foreign policies that are
"self-serving." I would submit that the US has been and will continue to
be the most benevolent society on the face of the earth. No country
responds quicker to help any region of the world when a catastrophe
strikes. We have given money and aid far beyond what any other country has
done.
That being said, there is a pervasive sickness we continue to justify as
"free speech." We say the Moslems belittle and humiliate women. They say
we exploit them. They wrap them up, we parade their naked bodies on the
silver screen and Internet. President Bush said, "Freedom was attacked
today." We were not attacked because of our freedom, but because of our
permissiveness. We could clean up out own act and rid ourselves of what
the USA appears to export: homosexuality, pornography, etc., but I am
afraid such a message is drowned out today by the atrocities committed
against us.
All of us (Americans) remember the senseless acts of murder committed at
Columbine High School. How many know there was a two-tiered system of
justice at that school - a permissive system for "jocks," and a more
restrictive system for everybody else? When the two young boys launched
their attack, one was heard to say, "Let's kill all the jocks." In
essence, they rebelled against an unfair and discriminatory system. But
their crimes were so heinous the root causes have been lost and forgotten.
The same thing could be said about the terrorist attacks. We are so caught
up in indignation and flag-waving there is no looking inward at what we
might be doing to provoke these people. I do not think a man would
"martyr" himself because of our "freedom," but only because he believes we
are an evil society, and he is serving a righteous cause. If we continue
to engage in reckless permissiveness and call it "freedom" we can continue
to expect an unending supply of "martyrs."
Dick Fischer - The Origins Solution - www.orisol.com
"The answer we should have known about 150 years ago"
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