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2005-01-09 Arabia

Tsunami: The president of the super empire didn't even say: I'm sorry.

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Posted by tipper 2005-01-09 9:36:38 AM|| || Front Page|| [12 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Wow, I'll bet his arm is really tired.

Posted by .com 2005-01-09 9:56:55 AM|| 2005-01-09 9:56:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Never trust a Muslim.

Posted by Unaling Elminelet3176 2005-01-09 10:09:25 AM|| 2005-01-09 10:09:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 "America finally led global effort..."

Not "finally" you idiot. America was the first to do it and still does.

Posted by True German Ally 2005-01-09 10:43:47 AM|| 2005-01-09 10:43:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 What's this clown's address? I want to make damn sure we don't help him should he need it. Wouldn't want to challenge his world view, old boy.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2005-01-09 11:24:16 AM|| 2005-01-09 11:24:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 I feel so bad and small. Is AB around?

Posted by Shipman 2005-01-09 11:39:38 AM|| 2005-01-09 11:39:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 "Japan, the No. 2 economic powerhouse donated $500 million to Americaâs $350 million"
May I ask what your oil-rich monarchy threw in?

Just what we need -- a lecture on charity and world government from Saudi Arabia. A country that supplied us most of the 9/11 terrorists, routinely abuses women and non-Muslims, does not offer aid to non-Muslims, and is not even close to being a democracy.

"We need a system that is free from self-interests"
Agreed -- I am increasingly convinced that the world needs to be freed of Islamic fundamentalist self-interests. Time is running out for peaceful and tolerant Muslims to bring Islam to peace and tolerance. If there is not a reformation before some further large provocation of the West, then there will be a sudden and brutal retaliation that will make the war in Afghanistan look like a boy scout camp-out and will be the abrupt end of the centers of Islam.

Posted by Tom 2005-01-09 12:08:24 PM|| 2005-01-09 12:08:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 What an asshat! I like the way all these discussions about money ignore the aircraft carrier and other naval assets the US provided.

Posted by SteveS 2005-01-09 12:14:13 PM|| 2005-01-09 12:14:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Carriers are so cold don't ya know SteveS.

Posted by Shipman 2005-01-09 12:29:07 PM|| 2005-01-09 12:29:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Nothing we do, no matter what...will be enough.

I'm surprised it took you this long to conclude this, Fred. I discovered it only a few days after 9/11, when the letters to the Sydney Morning Herald informed me that anything the US had ever done, or failed to do, was wrong.

If the US takes action (e.g. Iraq), that's wrong. If the US fails to take action (e.g. East Timor), that's also wrong. The US alone has the luxury of action; other powers only move in reaction to US actions. This makes the US responsible for the wrongs of any power, any where. For example, the US is responsible for all the wrongs of Saudi Arabia, since we "support" that regime, but it's also responsible for the wrongs of North Korea, since we oppose it.

This article from last April is by Elinor Burkett, an American teaching in Kyrgyzstan. She started teaching in August, 2001. Scroll down a bit to read her experiences after 9/11. Muslims don't attack other Muslims. America is always attacking Muslims. The Russians, on the other hand, are our brothers. America got what it deserved for meddling, but if we are attacked, America must defend us.

There's much more. Burkett ends up blaming the government-controlled press in that region for disinformation. But a glance at the free Western press shows that a government is not necessary to obscure the truth.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2005-01-09 3:14:43 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2005-01-09 3:14:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Satan has the greatest following.

Dead giveaway for major self-loathing issues. If Satan (or whatever other superstitious label you wish to give misfortune) really did prevail in this universe, we would all be dead by now. This is the same exact twisted mindset that brought you Original Sin and all the other forms of pessimistic mind death.

Good, as a life-giving force, continues to predominate precisely because it is good and promotes abundance. Claiming that evil actually prevails is merely a self-indictment of personal cowardice in fighting inhumanity wherever it surfaces.

... areas are being rebuilt with American money but without American participation because that would offend Muslim sensibilities ...

If accepting American aid offends their "Muslim sensibilities" I say make their dreams come true and let them rot without it. This crap has got to end. No more taking our money and then spitting on us.

If people want to take American aid and then conspire against us, it should cost them their lives. Those who accept our help only so that they may turn it against us deserve death. The time is long overdue to teach these ingrates that they cannot have it both ways. If all they're going to do is breed up more ingrates like themselves, then let them all die.

We no longer have the luxury of thinking that our military might can protect us from those duplictous individuals or cultures who accept our assistance only so that they may use the leisure it buys them to unleash atrocities against us. Weapons of mass destruction have forever changed the formula of power.

We must quickly adopt a more prudent approach to dealing with hostile cultures. Facilitating the recovery of those who would just as soon kill us all is tantamount to suicide. This world can do without societies who are unwilling to coexist peacefully in a pluralistic world.

If any of these disaster-stricken countries cannot bring themselves to pledge an oath of tolerance for other cultures, they can rot in hell.

Posted by Zenster 2005-01-09 5:55:56 PM|| 2005-01-09 5:55:56 PM|| Front Page Top

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