 ouyangwulong says: You know, something occurs to me when looking at these three lovely destinations: it really does look like we are hiring the terrorists to interrogate potential terrorists. This is like Milo Minderbinder bombing his own base for the Germans! Always. Like hiring Saddam. Like hiring Osama. Like backing the Taliban. We always pay their salary before we kill them. There are no limits to who the empire-builders will back, and what democracies they will destroy, in order to add wealth to the Empire. That Milo Minderbender...what a character! ouyangwulong wrote: it really does look like we are hiring the terrorists to interrogate potential terroristsNo. In Egypt, the CIA is not hiring terrorists, they are hiring the Egyptian government to do its bidding. Since 1979 Egypt has received received $50 billion in aid from the US, hence their cooperation. The Egyptian people are victimized and tortured by the military and the police and it is that system of torture that the US government exploits. Yes, there is the Muslim Brotherhood which originated in Egypt, but most Egyptians despise them and view them as corrupt as well as troublemakers. My friends, express the wish that the Brotherhood would disappear. They also r... ouyangwulong wrote: it really does look like we are hiring the terrorists to interrogate potential terroristsNo. In Egypt, the CIA is not hiring terrorists, they are hiring the Egyptian government to do its bidding. Since 1979 Egypt has received received $50 billion in aid from the US, hence their cooperation. The Egyptian people are victimized and tortured by the military and the police and it is that system of torture that the US government exploits. Yes, there is the Muslim Brotherhood which originated in Egypt, but most Egyptians despise them and view them as corrupt as well as troublemakers. My friends, express the wish that the Brotherhood would disappear. They also r... woops, my comment posted twice - sorry about that. actually, zizzy, I know the Egyptian people are wonderfully astute citizens of the middle east. But, the Mubarak dictatorship isn't. Arresting scholars and students and any other kind of activists for "offenses against Islam" when they are really just offenses against Mubarak strikes me as exactly the same kind of perversion of Islam that we see in Al Qaeda: Using religious authority to protect secular despotism. |
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