mahatir - what a load of cr@p!, page-3

re: mahatir - common sense at last When I first heard the headline this morning I though he we go again more rantings from Mahatir.

After reading what Mahatir has stated is one of the most sensible statements I have seen made by any leader in awhile.

Yes he descrided the victims of Sep 11 and Bali as collateral damage, which is the same way innocent civilians in Afganistan, Palestine and potentialy Iraq have been descrided by the west. He is not justifying the killing of innocent people what he is doing is demonstrating both sides of the arguement.

Read what he has said not an out of context headline.

"If the innocent people who died in the attack on Afghanistan, and those who have been dying from lack of food and medical care in Iraq, are considered collaterals, are not the 3000 who died in New York and the 200 in Bali also just collaterals, whose deaths are necessary for the operations to succeed?"

It is also hard to dispute other points he has raised.

"It is no longer just a war against terrorism, it is in fact a war to dominate the world, ie, the chromatically different world," he said."

Like it or not this is the view of a large part of the non western world.


"The world is a mess"

You would be a fool to disagree with this and unless same major changes are made in the west's especially the US's foreign policies, the UN and the Israel/Palestinian problem there is going to be a lot more "collateral damge" of innocent people.

It is about time that effort was put back into fighting both terrorism as well as correcting the problems that are breeding these terrorists.