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“And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been…” Rilke
"Think of how stupid the average person is. And then realize that half of them are stupider than that." George Carlin
A pagan grace before drinking. Virgil, Aeneid 1.734, thanks to
Laudator Temporis Acti:
May Bacchus, giver of joy, be near ...
adsit laetitiae Bacchus dator ...
Terrorism and terror are only a weapon that someone is using. Like a gun, it has been used throughout history for different purposes. We are witnessing this again now as in past times, nothing new today. I have thought a tot about this, and some thoughts have come to my mind. It was not by chance that I said that seven out of-ten of the richest people in the world are in the Middle East. The problem isn't with them. The problem is that there is a contradiction between a new, young, aggressive financial Islamic capital and the old one. A moment came when the new generation began to see the old as its competitor. From the time bin Laden became your partner, he felt himself your competitor. His desire to move to Central Asia or elsewhere was his desire to muscle in and subjugate all others to his will. In reality, it is a financial issue. Religion is secondary. The real goal is to have a place-in the center of world finances, a place that is already occupied. They want to push away representatives of Jewish capital or, if not, they will try to destroy the center and shake it up and, ultimately in that way, to take its place. The reason for the terrorism is not the Middle East or poverty. They use poverty and they use unresolved conflicts. They are using other problems. These problems are not the real reasons for terrorism. They are using the people of Afghanistan in the same way.
ReplyDeleteVV Putin
Conversation between Putin and Bush on the sidelines of the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Shanghai, China, Oct 21, 2001
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/33737-document-3-memorandum-conversation-subject-meeting-russian-president-vladimir-putin