Politics -- How responsible are we?

Nov 24, 2006 16:39

WARNING - HIGHLY POLITICAL CONTROVERSIAL STATEMENTS BELOW ( Read more... )

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xiphias November 25 2006, 02:44:54 UTC
Iraq was a secular society.

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shanex November 25 2006, 03:31:49 UTC
The current religion-based hate attacks say otherwise. Iraq may have been a secular society on paper, but it was two religious societies in practice. Three, really, when you include the Kurds.

-ATW

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xiphias November 25 2006, 05:29:27 UTC
No; it was a secular society.

Societies radicalize and become religiously fragmented in anarchic conditions.

Iraq was a secular society.

Fundamentalist elements radicalized the society AFTER the US destroyed civil government.

The same thing would happen in the US if our government was destroyed.

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shanex November 25 2006, 08:21:16 UTC
Out of all the countries that have endured post-war disorder, how many of them fell into utter barbaric disarray to this level of lunacy? Not many. Take a look at World War II. Occupied France didn't fall in to barbaric disarray. Postwar Germany didn't. Postwar Japan didn't. Iraq is the exception, not the rule. Look at Afghanistan. What's the difference between Iraq and Afghanistan? Afghanistan overwhelmingly has one type of Islam in it. No factions ( ... )

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