[Buddha-l] Re: Greetings from Oviedo

[jkirk]

> I don't know if there is much of a left left. The opposition seems to
> focus more on being against or in favour of a globalised free market with 
> less and less State intervention as far as welfare and social rights are 
> concerned. The "anti-Americanism" is not directed against America and 
> Americans as such. It is against the intentional undermining of the role 
> of the UN, against the refusal to give power to an environmental policy 
> (Kyoto), the International Court of Justice, the non respect of the 
> Genevian Convention, Human rights, the Death penalty, the self-attributed 
> Messianic role of the religious right, the undermining of democracy and 
> democratic rights in the US itself, etc etc.
>
> As much as moderate muslims have the obligation to save Islam from 
> Islamist extremism, moderate Americans have the obligation to save what 
> the Western world loved about America. Wakey wakey. Listen to Al Gore
> http://www.buzzflash.com/alerts/05/10/ale05154.html
>
> Joy
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Right Joy---Well-put-----I agree with your justified expansion of the 
argument.
The US has lots to answer for, having little to do with religion. Political
responses can't be boiled down to just "us vs. them".
Joanna