Risque, Wim and y'all:
RISKY:
I am quite convinced that there are few things as disfunctional as not
holding people accountable for their actions. Certainly a guaranteed recipe
for social disaster. I know of no successful societies that took this
course.
DMB...
Don't you think the USA should be held accountable for her actions?
Shouldn't she take responsibility for her foreign policies? I mean, what I
see missing from the whole "making progress" debate is any discussion of
that. Its not even a matter of charity or generosity. Its a matter of doing
injury to other nations and other cultures. This is what breeds resentment
and terror. Did you know that the USA?...
Trained and funded Osama bin Ladin. Has sold weapons and given money to
Saddam Hussein. Sold Indonesia the weapons it used to perpetrate a genocide
in East Timor. Helped to overthrow a democratically elected government in
Argentina and installed a military dictatorship. Runs "the school of the
Americas", which trains terrorists. That Angola's Savimbe, who killed half a
million of his own people was called "the Abe Lincoln of Africa" by Reagan
and "one of the true heros of our time" by Jean Kirpatrick. That Henry
Kissenger is being sued for war crimes. That a third of the planet's
population current suffers from US economic sanctions. And has supported a
vast number of repressive regiems throughout the world. I could go on for
days, but you get the idea. Terrorism is mostly caused by blowback. To
simply attribute the world's problems to "their" dysfunctionality strikes me
as a profound abdication of responsibility.
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