People need help, not war
With Pakistan such a big issue, it's time to read Greg Mortenson's "Three Cups of Tea." It gives good background on the country and U.S. involvement with it, which has not always been positive. Mortenson spent 15 years raising money for and building schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan, believing that education, not war, brings peace.
Fearing we were abandoning Afghanistan after the Russians pulled out, he called for money to help and was told the money couldn't be sent there because of their poor banking system. Strange, he thought, how bags of money to fight the Taliban got there, but the other two-thirds earmarked for schools, roads, sewers didn't.
He quotes Brig. Gen. Ashir Baz, who was struck silent watching wailing Iraqi women on CNN carrying children's bodies out of the rubble of a bombed building: "People like me are Americans' best friends here. I'm a modern Muslim, an educated man, but watching this, even I could become a [jihadist/mujahid]. How can Americans say they are making themselves safer? President Bush has done a wonderful job of uniting one billion Muslims against America for the next 200 years."
Read it and you'll care about the children, the schools, the roads, the hospitals, and not just that they fight the terrorists -- to protect us.
Gay Cheney
Browns Summit
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"President Bush has done a wonderful job of uniting one billion Muslims against America for the next 200 years."
He has had plenty of help from a lamestream media wit an agenda:
http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=152808
Posted on December 3, 2007 6:58 AM
Your RIGHT Neo .. the stupidity of a few Lame Stream Media bozos CLEARLY makes brilliant the well-thought-out actions of the same BIG Government you so often love to hate.
Posted on December 3, 2007 7:07 AM
"Mortenson spent 15 years raising money for and building schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan, believing that education, not war, brings peace."
Didn't work dit it? It ain't American's fault that there are hate-filled psychos in the middle east. That would be their belief in a dead prophet.
Posted on December 3, 2007 9:35 AM
Nit - are you saying the education brings war, not peace?
If it "Didn't work" then what the heck are we doing in Iraq .. "bringing "democracy" - of which education is a fundamental building block - so "hate-filled psychos" will be outed by a knowing peoples, and not propped through ignorance.
ALSO - be careful about dissin' "belief in a dead prophet" .. we're kinda close to Christmas, ya know.
Posted on December 3, 2007 10:22 AM
"If it "Didn't work" then what the heck are we doing in Iraq .. "
Good question.
"ALSO - be careful about dissin' "belief in a dead prophet" .. we're kinda close to Christmas, ya know."
We are kind of close to Christmas. Which has absolutely nothing to do with a dead prophet. Christmas is the celebration of the living Savior, Jesus Christ. He died but arose. Big difference compared to Mohammed who died centuries ago. He wasn't resurrected. At least not yet, anyway.
I personally am looking forward to Christmas. I don't plan to celebrate the holiday by beheading anyone who disagrees.
Posted on December 3, 2007 11:45 AM
As far as education goes, we'd be better off concentrating those efforts in this country.
Posted on December 3, 2007 11:48 AM
"I don't plan to celebrate the holiday by beheading anyone who disagrees."
It may surprise you to learn that relatively damm few Muslims believe in that, Nit.
Posted on December 3, 2007 12:37 PM
"It may surprise you to learn that relatively damm few Muslims believe in that, Nit."
Maybe they need to hire better PR, then.
Posted on December 3, 2007 1:04 PM
.. maybe folks should look beyond CNN and FOXNEWS for information ...
Posted on December 3, 2007 1:29 PM
...like the New York Times?...
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/08/new-york-times-busted-in-hezbollah.html
Posted on December 3, 2007 9:39 PM
Your RIGHT Neo .. the stupidity of a few Lame Stream Media bozos CLEARLY makes brilliant the well-thought-out actions of the same BIG Government you so often love to hate.
Folks should look for information beyond CNN and FOXNEWS and both the The New York Times and The Washington Times.
Posted on December 3, 2007 11:02 PM
Just giving you a few examples of why I call them the 'lamestream' media. Here we have the NY Times (the 'newspaper of record', no less) retouching the "news" to advance an agenda.
Kinda makes one wonder about all those hyper-links (many from Reuters' news service)offered as 'proof', huh?
And now we have Gay Cheney urging us to "read it and you'll care about the roads, schools, yada, yada, yada"...
yeah, right. "Read it, and you'll hate Bush even more"...is what I glean from this letter.
The Times offered a correction only after it was posted on the internet and the uneducated, unwashed masses exposed it for the fraud it was.
Ah...what ever happened to the good ol days when Walter Cronkite told us everything we needed to know...
I'll have to ask Dan Rather.
Posted on December 4, 2007 6:56 AM