nanog mailing list archives
Re: Great article about afghanistan/taliban/bin laden [OT]
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank () att net il>
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 10:58:00 +0200
At 19:04 14/09/01 -0400, David Charlap wrote:
>> That's why he did this. Read his speeches and statements. It's >> all right there. He really believes Islam would beat the west. It >> might seem ridiculous, but he figures if he can polarize the world >> into Islam and the West, he's got a billion soldiers. If the west >> wreaks a holocaust in those lands, that's a billion people with >> nothing left to lose, that's even better from Bin Laden's point of >> view. He's probably wrong, in the end the west would win, whatever >> that would mean, but the war would last for years and millions >> would die, not just theirs but ours. Who has the belly for that? >> Bin Laden does. Anyone else? The real problem is that this war is going to happen sooner or later, whether we want it or not.
Sooner: http://asia.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/africa/09/12/religion.nigeria.reut/No Israelis/Jews/Americans in Nigeria at last count. Same been going on in Indonesia, Chechnya, Malyasia, Phillipines, etc. for the past 2-3 years.
-Hank
Current thread:
- [Fwd: Great article about afghanistan/taliban/bin laden] Imran Qureshi (Sep 14)
- Re: [Fwd: Great article about afghanistan/taliban/bin laden] David Charlap (Sep 14)
- Re: Great article about afghanistan/taliban/bin laden [OT] Hank Nussbacher (Sep 16)
- Re: [Fwd: Great article about afghanistan/taliban/bin laden] Jon Mansey (Sep 14)
- Re: [Fwd: Great article about afghanistan/taliban/bin laden] David Charlap (Sep 14)