Re: [RC] bin Ladens son wants to put on an Endurance Ride across Africa - Tom Sites
There was a time when Russia was in Afghanistan and
we supported Osama because it was to our advantage, and he helped us "tear down
that wall". I've seen diplomacy change over the years that our friends and
our enemies are interchangable. Look at the Germans, the Japanese, the
Vietnamese and the Chinese....all our 'friends' now
My son is now in training in the Va. National Guard
for a tour in Afghanistan. If i can ride with the son of the Father of his
enemy and prevent his deployment i would do it.
Maybe this is a better ride for the Long Riders and
CuChullaine O'Reilly and not RC. ts
Subject: Re: [RC] bin Ladens son wants to
put on an Endurance Ride across Africa
True--the problem is much too big to be helped by
an endurance ride. Now, if Omar would pay all my entry fees for the next
50 years, buy me a new truck and trailer every 7 years, talk my
bosses into giving me Fridays off, ensure I had the fastest and most
even-tempered horses for the next 50 years, and that our crew were
perfect in every way then I might consider his idea...
Subject: Re: [RC] bin Ladens son wants
to put on an Endurance Ride across Africa
Omar doesn't criticize his father and says Osama bin Laden is just trying
to defend the Islamic world.
"My father thinks he will be good for defending the Arab people and stop
anyone from hurting the Arab or Muslim people any place in the world," he
said, noting that the West didn't have a problem with his father when he was
fighting the Russians in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
Above is a quote from the article. Did America
have a problem with the Islamic world before the World Trade Center was
bombed? I always thought that most Americans are "live and let live"
about other people's religions and cultures. Maybe I'm naive about
that.
It's very difficult to trust when we have been
attacked on our own soil, but then again, I think we have done a pretty
lousy thing by attacking Iraq. At least it's not a very productive and
conclusive war for us...just very costly and damaging. If we suspected
bin Laden was the instigator of the WTC attacks, and he is thought to be in
Pakistan or Afghanistan, then what are we doing in Iraq? And why do we
think we can convert other countries to our ideal of
democracy? It just doesn't work for everyone.
I find it all very troubling. I'm not sure I
can imagine how an endurance ride will be of much help.
