I guess I'm one too. I wish I was wealthy enough to change the ways of the world in ways other than the power of the pen (or keyboard, in this day and age).
I know that there are fundamentalists out there who want to kill us because of where we were born. And that is insane. But it is more complex than this, because we have done more than be born here. You have done more than this to Bin Laden:
You and I pay taxes to an evil regime which is devastating the world pre-emptively in our name. We are complicit. We look the other way. We avoid the news for our mental health---because it is too painful to know what WE are funding. If we were fighting tooth and nail to stop our government, we'd be in the right. In not doing so, can we be in the right? I don't think so.
We ARE supporting the evil because it is convenient and confortable for us to not make waves. We keep our heads down--you more than me, but both of us to a degree. It's the American way. Far be it from us to jeopardize our comfort for some weirdo radicals on the other side of the planet.
Can you send me in the direction of good information about Bin Laden's beliefs? Or are your impressions garnered from the US mass media? The mass media take on Bin Laden sounds a lot like what you say.
I can be educated. Show me how you know that he is a greedy fanatic and not a pious man in dire straights. I confess to a general ignorance about the meaning and necessity of JIHAD within the Islamic faith. I must learn more.
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I know that there are fundamentalists out there who want to kill us because of where we were born. And that is insane. But it is more complex than this, because we have done more than be born here. You have done more than this to Bin Laden:
You and I pay taxes to an evil regime which is devastating the world pre-emptively in our name. We are complicit. We look the other way. We avoid the news for our mental health---because it is too painful to know what WE are funding. If we were fighting tooth and nail to stop our government, we'd be in the right. In not doing so, can we be in the right? I don't think so.
We ARE supporting the evil because it is convenient and confortable for us to not make waves. We keep our heads down--you more than me, but both of us to a degree. It's the American way. Far be it from us to jeopardize our comfort for some weirdo radicals on the other side of the planet.
Can you send me in the direction of good information about Bin Laden's beliefs? Or are your impressions garnered from the US mass media? The mass media take on Bin Laden sounds a lot like what you say.
I can be educated. Show me how you know that he is a greedy fanatic and not a pious man in dire straights. I confess to a general ignorance about the meaning and necessity of JIHAD within the Islamic faith. I must learn more.