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Hey Obama: Afghanistan is lost too - blame Bush, not Europeans | 139 comments (139 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

And what do you answer, when Osama says, 9/11 is revenge for the US occupation of Saudi Arabia?

Der Amerikaner ist die Orchidee unter den Menschen
Volker Pispers

by Martin (weiser.mensch(at)googlemail.com) on Sun Mar 2nd, 2008 at 03:53:42 PM EST
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Re: Aaaaanyway (none / 1)

Or the 1991 gulf war. Or the support for Mubarak in Egypt (one of the high ranking AlQuaida guys was an Egypt)

Der Amerikaner ist die Orchidee unter den Menschen
Volker Pispers

by Martin (weiser.mensch(at)googlemail.com) on Sun Mar 2nd, 2008 at 03:55:50 PM EST
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Geee...

Too bad the Americans are our friends and Osama is not. But I actually prefer it that way around.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Sun Mar 2nd, 2008 at 03:56:41 PM EST
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Re: Aaaaanyway (4.00 / 2)

I don't. I would prefer to be neutral.

Der Amerikaner ist die Orchidee unter den Menschen
Volker Pispers

by Martin (weiser.mensch(at)googlemail.com) on Sun Mar 2nd, 2008 at 03:58:48 PM EST
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More precise (none / 1)

With neutral I don't necessarily mean a passive bystander as the Swiss model, but in the ideal case actively working that on both sides violance isn't accapted as a tool of politics and compromises with which at least the moderate can live are worked out to drain with time the support of fundamentalistic opinions away.

Der Amerikaner ist die Orchidee unter den Menschen
Volker Pispers

by Martin (weiser.mensch(at)googlemail.com) on Sun Mar 2nd, 2008 at 04:07:38 PM EST
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So if your friend nearly drunkenly gets into a fight one night, you should automatically join him, rather than get him out of there till he's sober and has thought it through?

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sun Mar 2nd, 2008 at 04:02:50 PM EST
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