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    From Bob Ackley@1:300/3 to All on Thu Feb 3 07:53:50 2011
    A while ago in another echo I said that I read a lot. I've been going through my library
    and in the past week I've re-read the follkowing tomes:

    The Corruption of American Politics by Elizabeth Drew
    Washington, City of Scandals by Donald Lambro
    Adventures in Porkland by Brian Kelly
    Official Lies by Bennett & DiLorenzo
    Losing Ground by Charles Murray
    and
    Against All Enemies by Richard Clarke

    The first five date from the 1980s and the last from 2003. All are worth reading and
    re-reading.

    That said, observing current events in the Middle East I cannot help but feel that the
    trouble has been organized/sponsored by al-Qaida. That organization's goal, after all,
    is to establish a multi-national caliphate and set human development back by at
    least
    a millenium. Having not had much luck here and in Europe over the past several
    years
    I think they're looking for softer targets.

    I'd forgotten about the trouble those folks have caused in Indonesia and elsewhere in
    southeast Asia (including the Philippines). In any case, developments in Egypt and, to
    a lesser extent in Jordan, seem to be right up their alley.

    --- FleetStreet 1.19+
    * Origin: Bob's Boneyard, Emerson, Iowa (1:300/3)
  • From Richard Webb@1:116/901 to Bob Ackley on Thu Feb 3 14:56:17 2011
    Hi Bob,

    On Thu 2039-Feb-03 07:53, Bob Ackley (1:300/3) wrote to All:

    <snip good reading list, read two of those, remainder not
    available in braille>

    That said, observing current events in the Middle East I cannot help
    but feel that the
    trouble has been organized/sponsored by al-Qaida. That
    organization's goal, after all,
    is to establish a multi-national caliphate and set human development
    back by at least
    a millenium. Having not had much luck here and in Europe over the
    past several years
    I think they're looking for softer targets.

    OF course, and one must remember that wahhabism, which is
    the root of al qaeda also has close ties to the muslim
    brotherhood in Egypt. I've had much the same thoughts.

    Which is why I would never support a war to defend Saudi
    Arabia and Kuwait. A young man or woman serving over there
    for the U.S. must have his/her reading material censored to
    satisfy these barbarians and that isn't what we stand for in this country.

    THey'll continue to sow the seeds of their own destruction
    even without our help. I feel sorry for those of
    intelligence who don't have the resources to get out of
    there.

    I'd forgotten about the trouble those folks have caused in Indonesia
    and elsewhere in
    southeast Asia (including the Philippines). In any case,
    developments in Egypt and, to
    a lesser extent in Jordan, seem to be right up their alley.

    OF course they are. Which is why I still don't understand
    how it was that our great federal bureaucracy could miss all the signs before 9/11/2001. Sayyid Qutb and some of the
    founders of modern wahhabism were directly tied to the
    Muslim brotherhood in Egypt. IT all is of a piece, and our
    so-called experts missed it. They missed it because they
    chose to ignore it.

    Regards,
    Richard
    ... RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM A THREAT ABROAD, A THREAT AT HOME
    --- timEd 1.10.y2k+
    * Origin: (1:116/901)