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Date Posted: 13:00:33 11/12/04 Fri
Author: Chris
Subject: Re: German politics and culture part 2
In reply to: Shane 's message, "German politics and culture part 2" on 20:24:12 11/09/04 Tue

I have found it helps to have a sense of humor regarding politics.

Yes, but many issues we are discussing are not very funny and humor quickly reaches its limits facing the thousands of victims of wrong warfare politics, be it in Vietnam or Iraq.

I think you are too much in black/white thinking patterns. The ugly truth that the world is not black/white, but black/black. The democrats may have problems, but this will not make the republicans any better.

George Bush may subjectively be a Christian, but he—and the U.S. armed forces—have objectively done more for secularism than the whole of the American agnostic community combined and doubled. The demolition of the Taliban, the huge damage inflicted on the al-Qaida network, and the confrontation with theocratic saboteurs in Iraq represent huge advances for the non-fundamentalist forces in many countries.

The demolition of the Taliban and al-Qaida has only strengthened them. I firmly believe (and fear) that now we are not confronted with one Bin Laden, but with thousands of them. Iraq had been a secular country before the US invaded it. The government was bad and a dictatorship, but at least it controlled those fundamentalists which are no rampant in Falluja and every major town in Iraq. I cannot follow your reasoning here.

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