Picture of the Day
An Iraqi girl looks at the destruction caused to her house during a raid by US and Iraqi forces in Baghdad's impoverished district of Sadr City.(AFP/Wissam Al-Okaili)
posted by mikevotes at
7:39 AM
Saturday, June 30, 2007
An Iraqi girl looks at the destruction caused to her house during a raid by US and Iraqi forces in Baghdad's impoverished district of Sadr City.(AFP/Wissam Al-Okaili)
7 Comments:
This girl is what, 6... 7 years old? Her entire life this is all she's known: angry, self-righteous men -- convinced God is on their side -- bent on killing all who oppose them and wreaking destruction all about them.
The future is not bright.
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-epm, at 7:15 AM
Her only hope is for Iraq to abandon the insane tenets of their core philosophy that reduces women to chattel, fails to comprehend the pursuit of happiness as being inherently superior to death for Allah and believes Western style freedoms must be abolished everywhere in the world.
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Wes, at 9:24 AM
I'm sure she appreciates your noble efforts wes but she's probably too busy fixing her house and burying her parents.
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Anonymous, at 2:10 PM
EPM, I often forget about that, that we're now reaching a point where substantial parts of a childhood have all been war, and by the end of it, there will have been at least a decade, a lost generation.
Anon, I generally just ignore Wes. There were also some pictures from inside, and everything was broken.
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mikevotes, at 2:13 PM
Mike, I think Wes is pining for the old days of Saddam, when women were not "reduced to chattel" and could hold positions of responsibility and respect in a secular society. Unfortunately, we aren't fighting for women's rights. We're trying to establish a passive regime that is malleable and subservient to western business interests... Freedom's got nothing to do with it. And human rights? Please. Like we care.
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-epm, at 3:16 PM
Wes believes in the Clash of civilizations. He's said that there are 400-500 million Muslims that we need to kill to be "safe."
Therefore, I tend to view his human rights arguments with some skepticism.
Generally, it's better to ignore it.
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mikevotes, at 4:11 PM
I don't know what you're talking about, but obviously this once again is an attempt to paint me as some sort of stick figure of what you believe to be true.
I just look at most of these posts and pity those whose education must lack any attempt to understand history or the world's great religions.
Since Mike seems to believe history begins and ends with the mockumentaries of Michael Moore, I know recommending any books would be useless, but perhaps someone would be interested in watching a movie that Stephen Spielberg watches before starting to shoot a new movie: "Lawrence of Arabia," which at least gives a glimpse of historical perspective from the early twentieth century.
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Wes, at 4:37 PM
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