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Thread #105544   Message #2174098
Posted By: CarolC
18-Oct-07 - 08:24 PM
Thread Name: BS: Ahmahdinejad & Chavez- Progressives!
Subject: RE: BS: Ahmahdinejad & Chavez- Progressives!
But we are propping up Pakistan's dictator ourselves, so even the suffering in Pakistan is partly our fault. If we want to reduce the amount of suffering in the world, we need to stop doing things that cause great harm to the people in other countries for no reason other than our own selfish profit motives (and accumulation of power). We need to stop creating the kinds of situations that are causing the very suffering that you, yourself, have addressed.

Islamic extremism is the greatest friend of the people in this country who pull the strings. It serves their agenda to see it increase rather than decrease (as others in this thread have already pointed out). If we want to see Islamic extremism decrease rather than increase, we need to stop doing all of the many things we have been doing that are causing it to increase.

We need to stop removing democratically elected governments and replacing them with dictators. We need to stop propping up other dictatorial regimes, we need to stop waging wars of aggression and killing millions of people in other countries. We need to leave people alone to get on with the business of being sovereign in their own countries, and stop stealing their resources and forcing them to accumulate massive debts that they can't pay and that only serve to enrich a few at the top but don't provide any benefit whatever for the majority of people in those countries.

We really are the author of most of the problems that we face today. We need to face up to this fact and stop seeing ourselves as the only people in the world who have any rights.