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Re: [L-OT] Locusts for Dinner

2001-10-11 by Vincent Kenis

>I've noticed that people from repressive regimes often think there is a
>conspiracy in everything. I think the "American agenda" is to maintain
>stability in the region and prevent world terror.

Maybe that's why America has a habit of supporting and financing the 
most brutal dictatures in the world, including the Taliban regime 
until recently ?

According to some, the "American agenda" is very obvious :

- control the pipelines between Central Asia republics and Indian ocean
- install military bases so that they can balance Russia and China, 
which in the long run are their main obstacles for world domination
- fight recession by militarization of the economy
- break all anti-imperialist resistance in the world.

In light of this it makes perfect sense to finance terrorism because 
it gives you a good reason to intervene militarily.

Similarly, it is said that Saddam Hussein invaded Koweit only because 
Americans assured him that they wouldn't react. Similarly, it is said 
that Churchill allowed the state of Israel to be created in Palestine 
because he knew it would cause a tension such that England would be 
"forced" to intervene militarily, preventing Palistine to become 
independant (following other English colonies) and leave England's 
sphere of influence. I don't know if all this is true, but to me it 
doesn't sound more crazy than USA fighting for freedom all around the 
world.

>Spectro-bin-Laden wrote

Anything goes

>Primitive people always ascribe God to anything they can't
>understand or control.

The most "primitive people" are the ones who believe there is such a 
thing as "primitive people".

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