Subject: An Iranian Filmmaker on Afghanistan

From: duke0uke <luser@aol.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Tue, Sep 18, 2001 1:30 PM
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Long, detailed, honest, fascinating

http:/www.iranian.com/Opinion/2001/June/Afghan/index.html
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Subject: Re: An Iranian Filmmaker on Afghanistan
From: arbane@home.com (Arbane the Terrible)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Tue, Sep 18, 2001 3:08 PM
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On 18 Sep 2001 10:30:35 -0700, duke0uke <luser@aol.com> wrote:

>Long, detailed, honest, fascinating
>
>http:/www.iranian.com/Opinion/2001/June/Afghan/index.html

Seconded. Read this article, and you'll probably know more about
Afghanistan than George W. Bush does.

Remember, the plural of 'moron' is 'focus group'.
-- James A. Wolf
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Subject: Re: An Iranian Filmmaker on Afghanistan
From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Tue, Sep 18, 2001 6:17 PM
Message-ID: <180920011817437061%stang@subgenius.com>

In article <3ba784b9_1@news.nwlink.com>, duke0uke <luser@aol.com> wrote:

> http:/www.iranian.com/Opinion/2001/June/Afghan/index.html

I read the whole thing... it IS long but extremely informative. Makes
things make more sense, in that he clearly outlines geographical and
historical aspects of Afghanistan which illuminate why the hell life
there can be so... bizarre. I hadn't realized to what extent those
people were still TRIBAL. I knew the farmer types out in the boonies
were what we would call practically STONE AGE, but I didn't know why.
There sure are lots of reasons that have nothing to do with politics or
religion. (Some of them are called "mountains.")

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Subject: Re: An Iranian Filmmaker on Afghanistan
From: friday@fridayjones.com (Friday Jones)
Newsgroups: alt.slack,alt.friday
Date: Tue, Sep 18, 2001 9:15 PM
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In article <180920011817437061%stang@subgenius.com>, "Rev. Ivan Stang"
<stang@subgenius.com> wrote:

>In article <3ba784b9_1@news.nwlink.com>, duke0uke <luser@aol.com> wrote:
>
>> http:/www.iranian.com/Opinion/2001/June/Afghan/index.html
>
>I read the whole thing... it IS long but extremely informative. Makes
>things make more sense, in that he clearly outlines geographical and
>historical aspects of Afghanistan which illuminate why the hell life
>there can be so... bizarre. I hadn't realized to what extent those
>people were still TRIBAL. I knew the farmer types out in the boonies
>were what we would call practically STONE AGE, but I didn't know why.
>There sure are lots of reasons that have nothing to do with politics or
>religion. (Some of them are called "mountains.")

Bombing these guys back to the Stone Age would be a FAVOR - in the Stone
Age, there weren't land mines strewn everywhere!

An excellent article.
--
"Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong
religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark
morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity."

--HP Lovecraft, letter to Robert E. Howard 10/4/30
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