From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 27 7:25:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAE4537B421 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 07:25:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ATLANTA.threespace.com ([24.21.224.204]) by femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010927142541.NNFU24328.femail18.sdc1.sfba.home.com@ATLANTA.threespace.com> for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 07:25:41 -0700 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010927100849.017f9938@threespace.com> X-Sender: tech@threespace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 10:25:33 -0400 To: FreeBSD Chat From: Technical Information Subject: Re: Another article, from the "other side" In-Reply-To: <200109271345.f8RDjn116287@dungeon.home> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010927003714.01819658@threespace.com> <20010926072915.A30655@blackhelicopters.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010924170815.0180aee8@threespace.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010924191808.0227cf28@threespace.com> <3BAFD532.6ED7A320@duth.gr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010926015428.01814630@threespace.com> <20010926125046.C1370@lpt.ens.fr> <20010926070519.A30531@blackhelicopters.org> <20010926132021.E1370@lpt.ens.fr> <20010926072915.A30655@blackhelicopters.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010927003714.01819658@threespace.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 09:45 AM 9/27/2001, Stephen McKay wrote: >Do they discuss the earlier American funding for bin Laden and American >funding of the Taliban (as recently as May this year)? I'm genuinely >curious. I'm not trying to argue any particular point here. I'm quite >interested in how much (or how little) the American public is being >manipulated. I didn't have time to do a thorough search, but I quickly found the following link. I used CNN because it's apparently the favorite news source of everyone on this list. http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/09/15/amanpour.taliban/index.html While this short blurb doesn't mention the extent of the financial support, it makes no secret of it. And I don't think anyone has tried to make secret of it. In fact, I think it just raises most Americans' ire that much more to think of al Qaida's turning on us like this. >As I said, I think the only way to reduce terrorism is to change your >foreign policy. That might be why you read about it so much. Others >have said the same as I have. > >Of course, many nations should change their aggressive foreign policies, >but the US could be the leaders. I rate the chances low, unfortunately. I rewrote this paragraph four times before I finally decided to just say this: Many of the same countries and governments that decry U.S. involvement in their affairs are quick to take funds/assistance from the U.S. or attempt to do trade with us. And in my mind, that's completely hypocritical. You can't have it both ways. That may sound cynical or arrogant, but perhaps this editorial piece can state the sentiment more clearly. http://threespace.com/ksmm/america.html --Chip Morton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message