abelard wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 12:19:41 -0700, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
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>>Donna Evleth wrote:
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>>>>From: hummingbird
>>>>Reply-To: RHBIYDTNPPAX@spammotel.com
>>>>Newsgroups:
>>>>alt.activism.death-penalty,talk.politics.misc,uk.politics.misc,aus.politics,re
>>>>c.travel.europe
>>>>Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 13:57:13 +0000
>>>>Subject: Re: Capitulation coming in Iraq?
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>>>>I fully accepted that American military power can usually prevail
>>>>on the battlefield.
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>>>>But in Vietnam and now Iraq, what we see is the defeat of American
>>>>political policy because America doesn't understand that you cannot
>>>>bomb an ideology into submission however many bombs you drop.
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>>>Nobody likes a foreign occupation. I don't remember the Iraqis inviting us
>>>in. They certainly now look upon our presence as a foreign occupation.
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>>At least under Saddam they had a stable economy,
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> so does n. korea
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>>and an
>>intact infrastructure! (Also, Iraq was one of the few
>>moslem countries that was NOT a fundamentalist theocracy -
>>looks like it's about to fragment into several of those, now.)
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> socialism is theocracy....
Not if you understand that "theo" refers to "god" - most
socialist states are/were secular, therefore a-theistic.
Also Christianity could be viewed as perfect socialism - at
least as the early church practiced it! (Can't say the same
for most self-proclaimed "Christians" nowadays, though.) |