From "E-mails from the Edge"

[Crabtownboy]

Interesting quote from the book "Emails from the Edge." The author spend years working as a journalist in the Mid-East. Later he traveled over many of these countries.

This quote comes from his experiences ahead and just after 9/11

My comment at the time was that any person who knew anything about Mid-East history would not have entered these misadventures.

Anthrax may come and sarin may go, but politicians are constantly infecting the thought supply with such historically reckless statements as George W. Bush's declaration of a 'crusade' against militant Islam. (That the first three or four Crusades were not a string of brilliant successes ought to have deterred any historically aware Western leade from mounting his steed and charging into a 'war on terror'.) Fortunately Bahrainis and others in the region with whom I discussed this statement tended to regard Bush as a danger not because of his rhetorical excesses but because of the historical ignorance they revealed.

From Emails from the Edge, by Ken Haley, e-book, location 1451,

 

[padredurand]

Interesting quote from the book "Emails from the Edge." The author spend years working as a journalist in the Mid-East. Later he traveled over many of these countries.

This quote comes from his experiences ahead and just after 9/11

My comment at the time was that any person who knew anything about Mid-East history would not have entered these misadventures.

"What difference, at this point, does it make?" ~Hillary Clinton

 

[Crabtownboy]

"What difference, at this point, does it make?" ~Hillary Clinton

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana)

 

[SolaSaint]

So your position is to do nothing about terrorism and despots who hate anyone who differs from their radical fundamentalism? What would the world be without us? Cut the head off the snake before the snake swims across the Atlantic.

 

[padredurand]

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana)

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

 

[Crabtownboy]

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

I could not agree more. However, doing the wrong thing, or an evil thing, or an unwise thing is not the answer to doing something.