Message #1417

[AndyHB]

i've a feelin am gonna be takin this line by line...so here we is

ecu, not sure about others, but I find it very hard to read green type against the light grey background of quoted sections of posts.  It might help if you were to place '

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But innocent by whose standards, Eli?  Those of the West, whose actions over the past centuries have often been based on greed, power, pride even, in some cases, revenge all too often meted out on completely innocent people? ...
When all is taken into account, who is really responsible for the actions of both Hussein and Bin Laden?

i got a bit lost here is this all about original sin or something?

you are blaming the low wage cotton workers in inngland for poverty in india?...  or something

or the people in the twin towers? for the actions of the C18?

i'm not sure if you are  supporting revenge attacks or what?


GOD BLESS!

Peace and Love,

This has nothing to do with original sin, ecu.  It has everything to do with imperial economic policies (and not simply British ones) that decimated the cottage-industries of what are now developing nations such as India, Sri Lanka, as well as several African Far Eastern nations, in favour of their raw materials being brought to the West, turned into finished articles and then returned to their homelands at a price.  This is part of why Gandhi was so keen to wear homespun cotton clothes, because it meant that the British - previously the British East India Company - didn't get any income from the production of that clothe.  Technically, this was illegal under the laws of the Raj.  I don't deny that the Indian setup prior to the British arriving was particularly fair, but at least the citizens of the various principalities were able to make and sell their own goods.

As for my final sentence, we HAVE to remember that both Saddam and Bin Laden were initially supported, funded and armed by the West - largely America, France and the UK - so 'we' are as responsible for what they eventually became as they were themselves.