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Skriven 2008-05-26 17:16:42 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
  Kommentar till text 16116 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
Ärende: Casus belli
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Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Robert Bashe on Monday May 26 2008 at 12:28:

MV> So why did we not simply leave their oil where it was until they got
MV> ready for it by themselves?

Why should we, if we wanted it and were willing to pay? Since when is it
reprehensible to buy something, particularly when the sellers have no use for
it?

MV> I do not approve of their methods, but I think they have some good
MV> reasons to be pissed off at us.

I think they _had_ some good reasons, say in 1900-1918 or so, in the colonial
period. Nowadays they just bitch because their own rulers want to keep the
wealth for themselves.

MV> Like it or not, we have to talk to Hezbollah, we have to talk to Hamas
MV> end maybe even to Bin Laden. There is no other way to solve the
MV> problems.

I disagree, since the problems are not of our making. Let the oriental
potentates talk to them, since the big disagreement is about the money and
power that the sheikhs enjoy and distribute in their own countries.

The only thing a moslem extremist hates more than the West is another moslem -
you see the results in the news nearly every day. We have nothing to apologize
for, unless paying billions of dollars is something reprehensible. And if so, I
want to be "misused" in the same way.

Cheers, Bob

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