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- From: m23364@mwunix (James Meritt)
- Subject: Re: Survival of the fittest...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.195947.19293@linus.mitre.org>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:59:47 GMT
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- In article <BzoCyE.3EJ@apollo.hp.com> goykhman@apollo.hp.com (Alexander S. Goykhman) writes:
- }In article <1992Dec21.185308.13403@spectrum.xerox.com> powers@xerox.com writes:
- }>
- }>.........................Somalians are PEOPLE who eat, sleep, make love, have
- }>children, and work. Whether the children they have starve depends on the eco-political
- }>environment, over which they have little control. ...
- }
- } Somalis are people who, until the U.S. intervened, had had full control
- } over their political enviroment, of which civil war was, and had always been,
- } an integral part.
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- And look h ow WELL it worked!
-
- } Think of it as a way of settling internal conflicts and/or
- } electing the country's political leadership. Compare this to how
- } the Europeans have been settling their differences throughout this century,
- } and you might even come to appreciate the Somalian way.
-
- Yup. See who is starving and who isn't. Makes you appreciate the Somalian
- way, all right...
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- }> So JUST giving them food
- }>is JUST a first step in what needs to be a rebuilding of Somalias infrastructure to
- }>support life. ...
- }
- } Why are you so sure the Somalis want us to rebuild their infrastructure?
- } Yesterday, CNN ran a story on this subject: it turns out that Somalis
- } spent the last couple of years annihilating whatever infrastructure
- } British, Soviets, and American had left behind. For example, they
- } ripped electrical wires off the poles, undug water pipes, took apart
- } the phone system and dismantled their factories. Apparently, the Somalis
- } do not want no Western-style infrastructure in their country.
-
- But they seem to want the fruits of such a system. Specifically, food.
-
- } As every other people on this planet, Somalis want to preserve their
- } way of life, and just because we think that ours is a superior one
- } does not give us a right to shove it down other people's throats.
-
- Their way of life recently has been mass graves. It has not been mine.
- As a first-order approximation, I'd say that makes mine "superior", in
- the measure used by "mother nature".
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