Who is primitive?

America is still the lesser of the two evils! Primitive people don't respond with civilized actions.

Gene

You have just expressed the Hitler mentality: "since these people do not react like we do, we can send them to concentration camps and gas chambers..."

Bombing people's shelters in their poor country is no better.

Such an attitude gives direct evidence that the US leadership and its supporters are barbarians who are SO primitive that they do not even begin to suspect the meaning of the word "civilization".

Tom

I agree with the fact that it is useless to combat violence with violence, but in this case it has quite positive effects!!

Let's not forget that because of American bombings, the people of Afganistan have regained the freedom of listening to music, of appreciating art and having access to education and proper medical treatments. No more execution of women organising secret home schooling sessions to teach the young things other than the Coran. No more murdering and torturing of people because of their religion.The woman can finaly see the daylight without it being filtered through their burka. Don't you think that this was worth it? can you imagine a better way of arriving to the same result?? The Talibans have exchanged the little reason they had for a great deal of faith, so I doubt that any civilised means would have convinced them to do otherwise, after all, they had re-created the 'golden age' of islam!!

Jacques

Be careful. You have not only accepted but actually glorified violence as a method of solving problems.

Adopting your method - the stronger (or better armed) will be always right, simply because his/her particular preferences can be ENFORCED by means of fear. From there - it is easy to see how violence can be used to push and enforce ANY ideology.

It took Hitler almost a decade to mess up the world. He begun by dividing people into "civilized" and "impure". Laws were introduced to eliminate "impure" people. In a few short years everyone in Germany was afraid of being classified as "impure". Do you remember what happened next?

At present, the US leader divides people into "civilized" and "terrorists". (Whoever does not support his way of dealing with terrorists is a terrorist!) Laws are quietly but urgently introduced to "eliminate suspected terrorists" and reduce Civil Rights of ordinary citizens. Killing terrorists is proclaimed to be "noble". What do you think will happen next?

Hitler's most successful tool was PROPAGANDA. He made sure that people saw and heard ONLY what he wanted them to. That way it was easy to shape people's attitudes and opinions.

Your views are developed on the basis of what was presented to you on TV and other media. How much of it is true? How much of it is biased to make people BELIEVE in a "happy end" to a brutal bombing? Are you sure that you are making use of your intellectual capacity?

Tom

You don't fight for peace, you peace for peace.(words from David Icke). 'Civilized' people should know that, don't you think ?

Xomat

Of course. Unfortunately, people who call themselves civilized don't even begin to suspect the meaning of the word "civilization". Hitler and his followers were also sure that all they did was highly civilized.

To me misusing of the word "civilization" by today's leaders is the prime example of the extreme propaganda by means of language abuse. It is almost as bad as taking a dangerous chemical and calling it "ecstasy".

Tom

I totally agree with Tom. The bombing and killing helpless Afghans to catch a few (suspected) terrorists is immoral and unjust act. Bush and many Americans behave just like an angry mob in old western movies.

samm

What is especially dangerous is that the entire act of murder and gaining control over the entire country is proclaimed "noble". Don't you see how and why this ideology is pushed?

Even a geater danger for the entire humanity comes from the fact that the media puppets widely promote suspected fanatics (like Ben Linden) to the status of the most famous people on Earth.

Based on what they see on world media, young people, who are frustrated with their lives and ready for a suicide, get an idea that in order to become world famous it is sufficient to masacre school children !!! Don't you see that those who become the most famous are the worst of the worst?

"Majority of the stupid is guaranteed..." concluded Albert Einstein, shortly before he died. Do we need to amplify the stupidity by promoting suicide fanatics? How much more suffering is needed for someone to spot the maddness?

Tom