Recent content by Arash

8:41 in Forest of October

Nah, man, I just implied that I got a bad score. Your test was great!

I didn't like this test :(

Well, where is it?

Yes! But it's a collectors item!!!

1. Firstly, the US does not give the most charity in the world. In total it does, but not when compared to GDP. Secondly, where does half of this money go? Saudi Arabia, Egypt, El Salvador? 2. You say: "When Americans are killed, aka 9/11, Americans who lost personal friends, relatives...

Was that post directed at me? [Edit] Ah, obviously

Still don't get it. You say: X - The horrific nature of the attack (planes flying into buildings), X - The falling and total loss of those buildings X - The sheer shock of the unexpected are something truly unique. X - This event shaped world politics. was what made 9/11 memorable...

But I thought you meant like 9/11 lead to the Patriot Act, war in Iraq and Afghanistan, change in american foreign policy and such? Was that not what you meant?

You are right, it would be quite a lenghty discussion. Just wish to point out the the few wedding-bombings that occured were in Afghani village, where, as a tradition, the participants were firing in the air. American fighterplanes, experiencing this as a threat, bombed. Thus my view of the...

Let's take the overthrow of the Shah in Iran as an example :) X - All foreign companies arethrown out of the country. X - Americans are taken hostage. X - USA looses an important ally in the Middle East. X - Iran is no longer a turist attraction. X - Britain loose all claim to iranian...

Well, in that case the insurgants might not kill civilians too. We will never know if it was the Americans bombing the weddings in Afghanistan, or civilians in villages (as they did and admitted last week), or the insurgants who miraculously attained airplanes. I'm talking about the numbers...

I mainly meant civil wars, oppressive regimes, ordinary wars, natural catastrophies.

I made that comparison of 40 british VS 40 000 iranians for a "fhare" who kept japping about 40 people dying and that we should all be outraged. The way they died is of no consequence to me, as I don't live there. "The fact that the Muslim community is not outraged over this (and they arn't...

That's how it is with everybody. Unless it's americans or brittish who die. Then everybody have to express their symphaties and what-not or else you're a muslim terrorist and mean. A week after 9/11 (the WTC falling) we had a "quiet moment" at school. The next week 3000 people died in an...