How sad. On a lighter note, they are selling oceanfront property in Nebraska. It's on the internet for $5000.00/acre - a good buy! :o)


>>>Did anyone catch the show on the Discovery Channel last night about the roots of 9/11? Incredibly interesting.
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>>Sadly, Chris, it wasn't available here.
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>>Did it provide YOU with new information that caused shifts in any of your thinking on the related issues?
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>Maybe some, but not much. Thomas Friedman, who created the documentary pointed to 3 reasons (he referred to them as 3 rivers) many Arabs hate the U.S.:
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>1. U.S. goverment's support of Israel and other dictatorships in the Middle East
>2. Oppression by their own governments
>3. How many Arabs feel that we in the U.S. look down on them. Friedman referred to this as a "poverty of dignity"
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>Of the 3 reasons, the poverty of dignity was the most surprising.
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>The other most glaring thing was the total, and I mean total, amount of lies these people are reading either in their own newspapers or the Internet. Some, if not many, actually believe that 4,000 Jews who worked in the World Trade Center knew of the attack beforehand and did not go into work that day. When Friedman pointed out how totally illogical that was (who would have a list of 4,000 Jews in the first place, how would that kind of secret be kept quiet, how would they also not tell their co-workers, etc.), the person he was talking to said it must be true because he read it on the Internet! Another person interviewed in Indonesia referred to the fact that Al Gore was Jewish.