Newsgroup: it.arti.musica.classica
Titolo: OT - LA FALLACI VISTA DA UN'AMERICANA

 
Subject: finalmente ti respondo... 
I read the Oriana Fallaci article, every word of it. It was longer
than long because, on occasion, she repeated herself. 
I have to say that although I found parts of it profoundly moving, I
wasn't completely with her. I know you loved this piece, but bare with
me. Yes, she is angry and yes, there is reason to be proud. But, I
heard from her a sort of call to a religious war (too many references
to "figli di Allah") and I can't agree with that. What Bin Laden and
his terrorists do in the name of God is blasphemous. That's not Islam
and I don't want to put Christianity in that same gutter... and drag
it backwards 1000 years in development. There was a time - a long time
- if you remember, when Christianity saw as it's mission to bring the
world to Christ and many people were slaughtered, jailed, tortured and
burned in that effort. Many of the texts from the crusades, the
inquisition, even early America can scare you. (All that said, I'm not
attached to any one religion myself.) 
Oriana is responding with an historic response: an eye for an eye. If
Sept. 11, to me, was a call to transform ourselves. I'm not
going soft, I have no sympathy for terrorists. I don't just want the
terrorists in Afganastahn dead, I want the terrorists in Syria, those
who fund and protect them in Saudi Arabia, etc., etc. I want the
(corrupt) governments of Saudi Arabia and neighbors to be forced, for
the first time, to look to the needs of their own people....or I want
to see them forced out of power.(From my lips to God's ears as the
Jews say.)
When I used the word "transform" before I want to say that it is time
to learn a new way of responding to aggression. It is military might,
but it is much more.Ultimately, we have to support the intellectual
elements in the arab world and hope that, like the Russians, they will
begin to turn their societies. (I found it troubling that Oriana seems
to recognize no arabs other than Arafat and those who piss on the
walls of Rome.)   Our civilization has evolved through art,
literature, science and industry to where it is today (all that good
stuff that Oriana said about America and about western civilization is
all true) but it would be ludicrous to think that we stop here. If we
are to continue to develop, we have to accept the fact that humanity,
even its backward elements, is all linked. None of us survive if all
of us don't survive.
Population, communication, ease of travel and the power of destruction
have reached a critical mass that makes that true. 
I'm still "proud to be an American" and I have reverence for all the
western world has achieved. But, I will not let terrorists pull down
my way of life or make me behave like less than I am. That's why I
sent you the Rushdie quote. 
America needs to he meaner and smarter now and it needs to accept a
long campaign, but I can do without the pounding on the chest.
I agree with all the points you have made in the past, but do you see
what I am trying to say? This is the first time that I can read 4
different opinions on a situation and agree with all of them from
conservative to liberal.
Please don't stop sending me things. This is a long and involved
process and while some of it is very old, lots of it is very new.
Love you as always - k. 
UNQUOTE
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" Morire e' un male. Cosi' pensano gli dei,
  altrimenti morirebbero anche loro "
  Saffo
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a immaginare, ma che e' la spina dorsale di quel grande paese.
è un'America che ho avuto il piacere di conoscere e che, concordo con te,
molti non conoscono. A volte per mancanza di opportunità, per ignoranza o
pigrizia intellettuale, a volte per malafede, il che è peggio.
Grazie alla tua amica e a te per aver postato le sue parole.
florestano

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thank you, k.
regards,
Tito