Graeme Decarie
Well-Known Member
Gee. Our side would never kill innocent people the way ISIS does. Well - maybe Vietnamese. Okay, a million or so Iraqis. And some Libyans and Afghanis. but we don't cut heads off. We use napalm, agent orange, depleted uranium shells, cluster bombs. And we never take pictures of it.
One of the problems is that our interference with other societies causes severe strain on the whole social fabric of that society. People lose a sense of what they are, what there society is about.... It frequently is reflected in religion. New France, despite what our history books says, was not fanatically Roman Catholic. But it became so after the British conquest. The conquest destroyed the French sense of what their society was - and they had to rebuild in on some French institutional base - and in Quebec that was the church.
The kidnapping and enslavery of Blacks left them without any sense of social structure or values or identity; and the centuries have not done much to rebuild any. We did the same to our native peoples who are now struggling to rediscover what they were, what they valued, what made them a society. They still have a long way to go - and then they will face the problem of adapting all those values to the world they have to live in.
We have shattered societies all over the Muslim world. And we have never shown any capacity for fixing these things. Probably the best thing we can do is to leave them alone. But we won't.
In my childhood, I lived next to "little Syria", and many of my friends were Syrian Orthodox kids. I never heard them or their parents ever mention problems with Muslims or express any animosities or fears. Of course not. Our intrusions had not yet created those animosities and fears.
One of the problems is that our interference with other societies causes severe strain on the whole social fabric of that society. People lose a sense of what they are, what there society is about.... It frequently is reflected in religion. New France, despite what our history books says, was not fanatically Roman Catholic. But it became so after the British conquest. The conquest destroyed the French sense of what their society was - and they had to rebuild in on some French institutional base - and in Quebec that was the church.
The kidnapping and enslavery of Blacks left them without any sense of social structure or values or identity; and the centuries have not done much to rebuild any. We did the same to our native peoples who are now struggling to rediscover what they were, what they valued, what made them a society. They still have a long way to go - and then they will face the problem of adapting all those values to the world they have to live in.
We have shattered societies all over the Muslim world. And we have never shown any capacity for fixing these things. Probably the best thing we can do is to leave them alone. But we won't.
In my childhood, I lived next to "little Syria", and many of my friends were Syrian Orthodox kids. I never heard them or their parents ever mention problems with Muslims or express any animosities or fears. Of course not. Our intrusions had not yet created those animosities and fears.
