> On Sat, 4 May 2002, Dennis Perrin wrote:
>
> > Al-Qaeda is quite a bit more than Al Capone, and the Taliban (and Saudi
> > Arabia and its collaborators in the Pakistani ISI) are quite a bit more
than
> > corrupt cops on the beat.
>
> Not at all. They have more guns than Capone, and a slicker ideology.
Pakistan has nuclear weapons.
> they're the unwitting and unconscious product of the total
> system, fanatics of petroleum-rents instead of alcohol-rents, and just as
> powerless in the end.
I don't know much about the total system, but what Pakistan has to do with petroleum rents?
Ulhas
> -- Dennis (the double-dashed one)
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