Blunderous numskullery...

Submitted by David Johnson (United States), Jan 14, 2003 at 15:24

To commenter Gabriel Grosso:
Apology is graciously accepted, and I apologize for the nuts here who make sweeping condemnations of Europeans. It is always good to hear that there is still a sizeable European population who's on a sane wavelength.

To commenter Callise Cansime:
This is where i chose the title "blunderous numskullery"...why do you think this is about oil?! If oil were our only interest, then clearly the easiest, least costly thing to would be to renege on our sanctions and eliminate our boycott of iraqi oil. This would drastically lower oil prices due to an increase in supply, and would cost us nothing. Remember, wars are expensive...aside from the obvious risk of loss of life, it costs a large fortune to mobilize the military and deploy troops, keeping them equipped, etc. I can't believe so many people think the war is about oil.

To commenter "Orestis Lindermayer" (great name, buddy):
Why is the American 'educated' class always so quick to condemn Christianity? True, the Judeo-Christian scriptures have weird passages, just like Qu'Ran....passages about killing enemies, holding slaves, etc. And yes, there are fundamentalists from all religions. But the Judeo-Christian Religions have dealt with these and modernized. Islam has not. Christianity went through a "dark ages", much like Islam has been in since the fall of Baghdad to the Mongols 700 years ago. Along with these dark ages came the much cited Crusades when speaking of how bad Christianity is (Don't forget, one could reasonably argue that Islam started the crusades by taking the Holy Land by force...) However, outside pressure eventually pulled Christianity out of the dark ages. Just the same, outside pressure is what is necessary to pull Islam out of its current stagnation. This cultural relativism and moral equivalence is very dangerous, as it will only prolong Islam's wallowing in its state of complete intolerance...intolerance taken so far as to justify the murder of innocent civilians.

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