Thanks for this topic. Taylor Caldwell, the author, dealt with this issue, especially with regards to WW1.
Internet users or "armchair purveyors of information" can play a new role. It's new, for me anyway, and I just post links to alternative viewpoints, e.g. on the hopelessly rabid Yahoo message boards (see their guidelines, then see the content!).
If anyone has a "manual for armchair disseminators",
please post it here or send me a copy.
Now, back to your regularly scheduled war:
Please read:
Mere coincidence, or dawn of World War III
By M J Akbar, GN, 3/24/03
Find this article on this site:
http://www.aljazeerah.info/
I'm too tired to offer comment, but it's the lead article today (see center column).
Thanks to all contributors. Pray for all victims.
Please, read this:
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=3300
God help us!
You don't have a clue what power does to people, do you? It was the same arrogance that led the US to veto hundreds of "anti-Israel" UN resolutions that now fuels the US strategy. Might is right.
Now y'all live in a concentration camp (first the racial profiling and indeterminate detention, now the anti-war round-ups).
Western powers have tried to rule over the indigenous peoples of the Middle East in both ancient and modern times. Ousama (Trademark symbol) is the winner here, sad to say.
The next few weeks are still critical. Declare victory, get a third party administration and get out. You will never guarantee a 'friendly' regime anyway, but a third party is the best bet.
www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/19/1047749824415.html
(see above)
there are even better counter-arguments to the current White Houses' policies; the chest-beating patriots need to see that their economic welfare is in the wrong hands; the petrodollar diplomacy paradigm is finished; nations with smarter policies will survive the eventual meltdown of the greenback;
make Perle's day - expel the US from the UN; let the White House understand how not to manipulate others;
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