Hi Rasheed:
You wrote:
Why is it not an intellectual attack? What makes the ideas of another
inferior to the point where they are not even considered ideas, but
germs? Of course they are immoral ideas of destroying American
commerce, but you can't just say they are germs by way of one
sentence absent of any logical proof. Thousands of people have
perished under the US's attempts to stop the spread of Communism.
What was so damn bad about Communism that we had to go to war
more than once to stop it? I call that misguided.
Why is not an intellectual attack? You want proof? Here’s what Bin
Laden said in an interview with ABC News:
“Allah ordered us to purify Muslim land of all non-believers. We believe
the biggest thieves in the world and the terrorists are Americans. We
are sure of Allah’s victory and our victory against Americans and the
Jews as promised by the prophet of peace. We predict a black day for
America and the end of the United States as the United States.”
Pirsig said about Lila, “Intellectually she’s nowhere.” Likewise the
ideas of Bin Laden, his followers and his sympathizers.
What’s so bad about Communism? Nothing at all if Stalin’s killing of
40 million people in an effort to make it work isn’t bad.
Platt
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