From: Eeyore on


jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:

> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >If any Muslims over here try it on, they'll discover what a swift kick to the
> >nuts does !
>
> With the methods available today, you will never see your
> killer.

There's no need to be as silly as I was being !

Graham

From: Eeyore on


jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:

> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >The stupidity wrt Afghanistan was backing the Taliban ( oops they called
> >themselves Mujahadeen 'freedom fighters back then - not Taliban terrorists ).
> >
> >> >> And everybody
> >> >> seems to forget about southeast Asia, India and China.
> >> >
> >> >What Cold War there ? India ??? !!!
> >>
> >> India was classified as third world country.
> >
> >And what does that have to do with the Cold War ?
>
> Are you joking? Let's back up. What is the characteristic
> the makes a country to be classified as third world?

Mainly lack of 'development'.

Graham

From: Eeyore on


T Wake wrote:

> <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message
> > Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>If any Muslims over here try it on, they'll discover what a swift kick to
> >>the nuts does !
> >
> > With the methods available today, you will never see your killer.
>
> If they kill Eeyore they have failed. Killing people doesn't convert them,
> it just kills them.
>
> The fear you monger is more likely to cause a conversion.

It's actually more likely to cause a backlash in fact !

Graham


From: Eeyore on


jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:

> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>
> But your BBC news reports our politicians' sound bites as news.
> You are basing your decisions on political slickerhood.

Who said I was relying exclusively on the BBC ?


> >> For some strange
> >> reason, Carter is rearing his ugly head and trying to swing
> >> towards ceding to Islam.
> >
> >No he isn't !
> >
> >How about a cite here ?
>
> Sigh! He's hawking another book. So far, all of his book selling
> interviews promote the same opinion that extremists will be
> willing to talk and compromise.

All the evidence to date shows that this is what eventually happens. Was peace
restored in N Ireland by 'defeating' the IRA ?


> >Having thought quite long about these issues, I've concluded that much US
> >reaction is based on fear of the unknown or unfamiliar actually and the
> typical US
> >reaction is to try to stamp it out as a result.
>
> So there is no place for mess prevention?

If it's done *intelligently*.

Recent US action has been purely mess *generation*. Very costly mess generation
too in every conceivable respect.

Graham

From: jmfbahciv on
In article <45781F10.23D5E2D3(a)hotmail.com>,
Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
>
>> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >The stupidity wrt Afghanistan was backing the Taliban ( oops they called
>> >themselves Mujahadeen 'freedom fighters back then - not Taliban terrorists
).
>> >
>> >> >> And everybody
>> >> >> seems to forget about southeast Asia, India and China.
>> >> >
>> >> >What Cold War there ? India ??? !!!
>> >>
>> >> India was classified as third world country.
>> >
>> >And what does that have to do with the Cold War ?
>>
>> Are you joking? Let's back up. What is the characteristic
>> the makes a country to be classified as third world?
>
>Mainly lack of 'development'.

Then the USSR would be third world.

From the books I've read about the United Nations, the third
world were those countries who had not yet "decided" between
Western democratic governing and some flavor of communist
governing. The Cold War was all about which "side" these
countries would choose.

/BAH