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Subject: RE: [OM] [OT] Terrorism thoughts
From: Tris Schuler <tristanjohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 15:28:47 -0700
People do what they have to. Or are sheep and not people. So America will (hopefully) do what it has to in this instance. Better that than to lower our society to these other, much more primitive levels and states. America isn't perfect, but living like they do and why they do in places such as Kabul is not on my agenda and never will be.

Tris

> >  But the "regular folks" in Afghanistan don't particularly
> > like the Taliban either.. http://www.msnbc.com/news/564807.asp
> Enough do so that he remains in power.

 I think you may be confusing "like" with "are unable to rise up against the
armed government". I doubt a lot of folks in Cambodia were particularly
pleased with government policy when Pol Pot started killing the population
there, but they didn't overthrow him from within there either.

 Now, I'm not comparing the Taliban's current restrictions with mass murder,
but it's terribly easy to say "why don't the people just oust the
government" from a long way away.

 -- dan


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