Pragmatic, feasible, realistic? - you gotta be joking

Submitted by Wrench (United States), Jan 14, 2007 at 17:44

Noah -

I can't help wondering, if you guys are living on the same planet of enlighted people. Allow me to make my point with one simple tiny little aspect of LLCs masterplan to eradicate ISLAM.

When in Tchernobyl only a small amount of Uranium slowly evaporated into the atmosphere, I lived in Switzerland, a long distance away from the incident. Throughout Europe the topsoil had to be removed and crops were down for 2 years. Fishing in the many lakes prohibited. I could go on and on, but I think you get the picture. Life as we knew it, was severly impacted with grave economical consequences throughout Europa all the way down to even Spain.

The kind of chaos and wars LLC and you all seem to promote, would likely have a nuclear component ( IRAN) at some point. Can you imagine what the "fall out" in any sense of the word could mean to all of us? Do you guys even realize what the consequences of such action could look like?

When the price per barrel of oil fluctuates by only 10 %, the entire western world rattles.
72, we exprerienced Sundays, where driving a car was prohibited. Now try to fathom the fluctuation of oil during the mentioned chaos you promote and its consequences on the world stability and economy. Especially Europe which is to a way higher extent dependent on middle eastern oil than for instance the USA.

This here so often manifested drive to simplify a very complex matter is not prone to deli ver pragmatic, feasible ideas and solutions. An Algerian Ghetto in Marseille must be addressed differently than the Turkish issue of entering the EU or our approach to our own 1% Muslim minority in the USA, or militant fundamentalism on a global scale or homegrown muslim terrorism in the UK or our approach to IRAN or IRAK. All aforementioned in itself are extermely complex matters, and deserve the corresponding attention to detail - hence must be examined and explored individually too. The helicopter point of view with an allencompassing strategic longterm perspective seems to dominate this discussion to a dangerous extent.

Also - action and consequences - let us think those through at least 4 moves down the chess board, before we endanger the very way of life we try to preserve and applaud such naive, outright fashist suggestions.

In conclusion, if Susan becomes secretary of state, militant muslims across the globe would applaud, as it would give them justification and we as progressive, enlighted western Civ would be doomed.

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