Comments | marilena_r: History in the making?

marilena_r

History in the making?

Dec 12, 2006 11:27

There is a poll in the Newsweek website with the following question:
Should the United States seek the help of Iran and Syria in order to fix Iraq?
And there was an article with the title:
Iran reacts favorably to the Baker-Hamilton Plan.
I add to this mixture the Pope's ambition to unify all religions (Mr. Sfekas told us that this might be history in ( Read more... )

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autobeast December 12 2006, 09:39:52 UTC

I have no idea either and it isn't factoring in hardliners in all circles. We live in interesting times.

marilena_r December 12 2006, 09:49:56 UTC

What do you mean by "factoring in hardliners"? I have never heard the expression before.

autobeast December 12 2006, 09:52:42 UTC

Sorry, speaking in US political jargon. I mean that there are elements in each aspect of the above mentioned events and movements that are "Fundamentalist" or "Extremist" in their assumptions that could influence any of the aboved mentioned things negatively.

marilena_r December 12 2006, 09:57:50 UTC

Yeah, it makes sense. I want to believe though that the effects will not be all negative... It is frightening.

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I will try to keep it simple roark_rooster December 12 2006, 10:41:15 UTC

Iraq is country with big religious and ethnic differences. It is a mixture of some 20 big or small national or religious fractions (Kurds, Assyrians, Arabs, Shiites, Sunnis, Christians, etc). Iraq was not a nation-state. It was created by drawing lines on a map by the British who took over in 1918 after the fall of the Ottoman Empire ( ... )

Re: I will try to keep it simple marilena_r December 12 2006, 11:17:17 UTC

Thanks for your post! It was very enlightening! You actually created an LJ account! I am glad.
The American Taliban is a rather new expression, if I am not mistaken. It is unfair because it cannot express all of the Americans, but it aims to point out what is happening in some regions.

roark_rooster December 12 2006, 11:31:34 UTC

I am still waiting for a comment on my video! lol

I consider it unfair not only because not all Americans are religious fanatics, but as I said before, to be a Christian religious fanatic is not the same with being a muslim fundamentalist like the Taliban.

Even thw worst Christian fanatics in the States, respect your property, your privacy and your individuality. They dont impose their beliefs on society by force, like the Taliban. They allow women to go to school, they don't cut fingers of your girls for painting their nails, they don't abuse you if you are not dressed like they like.

It took the West 500 years of struggle to come to where we are today. To compare the Taliban with anything religious in the West is like ignoring all this period and comparing todays Christian fanatics with the medieval ones.

marilena_r December 12 2006, 11:58:29 UTC

Well, yeah Christians have slightly different manners. Because women fought for that. Muslim women can fight too.
A, you mean the Ayn Rand video. I couldn't see it... The link didn't work...

Try this link roark_rooster December 12 2006, 12:12:34 UTC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTS-ZDan5N4

This is the link directly to youtube.

Re: Try this link marilena_r December 12 2006, 14:53:34 UTC

Το είδα!!! Ωραίο! Το Fountainhead με ελληνικούς υπότιτλους! Υπάρχει στην ελλάδα σε DVD; Και το κείμενο είναι δικό σου! Έκανες και το μοντάζ! Μπράβο!

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ghoststrider December 12 2006, 20:44:03 UTC

Should the United States seek the help of Iran and Syria in order to fix Iraq?

I think we should all work together to fix problems, but that's my INFP idealism working here. Realistically, I don't think it'll work, just because of all the conflicting interests.

Iran reacts favorably to the Baker-Hamilton Plan.Who didn't see that one coming ( ... )

marilena_r December 13 2006, 06:12:45 UTC

The Pope a Unitarian Universalist? Hahahaha! Man, this is the joke of the year!!!