IP: Re: Washington's racism and the Islamist trap -- not pleasant reading but ..

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 05:21:59 +0100
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> From: Jean Camp <jean_camp () harvard edu>
> Subject: Re: IP: Washington's racism and the Islamist trap -- not pleasant
>    reading but ..
>
> Women want to work, have access to health care, and not be murdered 
> brutally if any man cares to point his finger at her. We would like to 
> feed our children and  see our girls learn how to read.
>
> I do not think believing that no woman gives birth thinking, "Please let 
> this child die a suicidal death in hopeless nihilistic hatred." is a
>
>  "classic case history in cultural stupidity." or   "unwarranted contempt 
> for its Islamist adversary"
>
> SHE matters too, something IP and American foreign policy forget.
>
> Pakistan mattered, and Afghanistan mattered so we had REAL POLITICS. None 
> of that silly sixties garbage --> REAL POLITICS so we can have NATIONAL 
> SECURITY.
>
> Bangladesh was a waste case left to the NGOs. Now Bangladesh has a 
> birthrate of <3 children/family rising literacy and real elections. 
> Because the Muslim, SHE cares about her children too. Afghanistan is a 
> nightmare and Pakistan has the sixth (?) military distator we have 
> supported there. We have spent real money on real politics in those 
> states, with REALLY bad results.
>
> Looks like Spengler is the blind one here.
>
> -Jean
>
>
> At 9:01 am -0400 9/23/01, David Farber wrote:
> > Washington's racism and the Islamist trap
> >
> > By Spengler
> >
> > "The Arab is a patriot, not a whore," the hardline Zionist leader 
> > Vladimir Jabotinsky used to warn his leftwing colleagues back during the 
> > 1920s. "He can't be bought off by the promise of economic benefits. And 
> > he is just as intelligent as you are."
> >
> > Implicit in America's pompous elocution against terrorism is a 
> > Kiplingesque premise that it is carrying the White Man's Burden to the 
> > underprivileged Middle East and South Asia. Except for a few 
> > "fundamentalist" recalcitrants, Washington believes, everyone in those 
> > parts of the world wants what the US wants: suburban tract housing 
> > developments, video on demand, fast food, egalitarianism and economic 
> > opportunity. It has put the Taliban on its "Wanted: Dead or Alive" 
> > poster, because the Taliban are an irrelevant medieval relic that fits a 
> > racist profile. Indeed, President Bush's silly ultimatim to the Taliban 
> > in his speech before Congress of September 20 might enter the textbooks 
> > as the classic case history in cultural stupidity. America's unwarranted 
> > contempt for its Islamist adversary already has had terrible 
> > consequences, and well might have catastrophic ones.
> >
> > http://www.atimes.com/front/CI22Aa02.html
> >
> >
> >
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