The Cellar - View Single Post

Undertoad · 10-30-2002, 10:02 AM

Well here in the NY Times is the opposite opinion. Even though registration is required, I urge ppl to read this.

To summarize: democracy and self-determination are key to improving the state of mind of the average middle eastern person. More Arabic peoples understand this than we would imagine. What they have now is an empty, unfulfilling materialism. The bin Laden followers are not the disenfranchised Arabic man on the street, as we would expect, but rather the moneyed ruling and upper class. 6 out of 6 Bahrainians at Gitmo are upper class. Encouraging the end of fascism and the spread of democracy beyond Bahrain, where it has taken root, is the key to solving the middle eastern problem because it will stop people from looking to others as the source of their problems.

10-30-2002, 10:02 AM	#9
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Well here in the NY Times is the opposite opinion. Even though registration is required, I urge ppl to read this. To summarize: democracy and self-determination are key to improving the state of mind of the average middle eastern person. More Arabic peoples understand this than we would imagine. What they have now is an empty, unfulfilling materialism. The bin Laden followers are not the disenfranchised Arabic man on the street, as we would expect, but rather the moneyed ruling and upper class. 6 out of 6 Bahrainians at Gitmo are upper class. Encouraging the end of fascism and the spread of democracy beyond Bahrain, where it has taken root, is the key to solving the middle eastern problem because it will stop people from looking to others as the source of their problems.