----- Original Message ----- From: "Micheal Ellis" <onyxmirr at earthlink.net> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 3:16 PM Subject: Re: Berube
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> >>
> >> But I'm sure that, if you were minded to try to climb out of your pit
> >> of ignorance, you could find a lot more pieces of evidence that
> >> normal tribal warlordism is a better politico-social regime than
> >> militant islamic theocratic fascism...
> >>
> >>
> >> Brad DeLong
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> >
> >Wonder how this assertion would be dealt with in Saudi Arabia........
> >
> >Ian
> >
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> Saudis aren't really "militant". they just pay militants and bribe
> dictators to go to war (20 billion to Hussien for the Iran/Iraq war)
> to stop the threat of an islamic revolution on behalf of the U.S.
>
> O.K. maybe they are militant.....midlemen islamic theocratic
> fascism.
>
> ~M.E.
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And Afghanistan was their favorite export platform.....
Ian