From: "John Foster" <borealis-AT-mercuryspeed.com>
Subject: Re: oh yea
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 08:55:21 -0800


Anna wrote earlier:

>My motto: Never Trust a German even 100
>years later almost.


I guess that some nationalities could be trusted by Anna. I wonder if
"Americans" are to be trusted? After all the US Government has bombed 39
countries without their consent. The US has supported terrorists
organizations in Chile by providing cash and aid. The US government assisted
in the assassination of many democratically elected politicians.

I personally could trust some Germans. I have various German-Canadian
friends who I do trust...but I would never trust the US government to
safeguard democracy in any nations foreign to it....

The US supported and supplied the Taliban with billions of dollars in
armaments and cash to fight a proxy war with it's arch enemy, the USSR.
Osama bin Laden was trained by the CIA, and was an agent for the CIA. Did
the US government really care about what civil rights the Taliban were
upholding? The US probably did not care because it had to have any one
assist it momentarily.

The United Nations has information indicating that the Northern Alliance has
committed 'mass executions'? Is the US or the UK really interested in
knowing if this is true? Will they ignore the evidence like the US did in
their prior engagment with the Taliban in order to stop the USSR from
completely invading Afghanistan?

The one thing I would trust the US government to do is to safeguard a 'cheap
and reliable' supply of oil and natural gas for a short time period of no
greater than 5 years, but not world peace, nor democracy.

The word trust has meaning only in context with an issue and a place and
time.

These broadcast declarations about all Germans is a sign of illiteracy, and
intolerance in my opinion.

US spokesperson Rumsfeld (German name) indicated that this issue is
different from others. He said that there are no other superpowers in the
world. The US is the only superpower left. But that is not correct...any
country with nuclear bombs is a 'superpower'.

That makes Pakistan (a highly unstable country) which has nuclear weapons a
Superpower nation. The reason why Pakistan was being 'embargoed' by Canada
and the US, is because of it's insistence to make nuclear weapons, and
failure to not engage in war with India, which also has nuclear weaponry.

Pakistan has failed to sign a nuclear non-proliferation treaty, but Germany
has been signatory? How is more to be trusted? The US or Pakistan? Or is
Germany more trustworthy? I would agree that Germany is to be trusted above
France, since Germany has no nuclear warheads. However France does have  a
lot of nuclear weapons, and has tested them in the Pacific releasing
radiation into the ecosphere.

I think that all the NSDAP (Nazi) are either dead or incompetent at murder,
but not the US government, the French government, nor the Pakistan
government. It seems to me that the German people therefore are much more
'civilized' and rational than the French, the American, and the Brit,
especially if they are carpet bombing civilians, etc., in Afghanistan.

The problem now is that Pakistan is no more 'unstable' than it ever was, yet
both Canada and the US have removed 'trade restrictions' and forgiven up to
$2 billion in debt. Apparently some nuclear materials were supplied to the
Al Queda network from Pakistan which was the only other country in the world
that recognized the independent state of Afghanistan ruled by the Taliban
(there are one or two other Muslim nations which also accept the Taliban).

It seems to me that the real issue of concern is not with the Taliban, nor
any of these regional ethnic groups, but rather with the US which is being
motivated primarily by it's almost insatiable need for oil and gas. It
appears to me that the US will support any organization to meet it's short
term objectives. The examples of Noriega in Panama is one good example...

Who do you trust? The nation with multiple nuclear warheads or the nation
without nuclear warheads?

chao

john foster










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