Mustafa Kamal Cursing After Ashura Blast

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   James Killian Spratt

   January 19, 2010

   By the same token, the ignorance, wilful or incidental, of a country’s people can be its leaders’ worst enemies, too. The value of universal, and honest, education is that it gets everyone, down to the “lowliest” adult onto the same page in understanding how civilization works and their individual roles in it. A primary requirement for a nation’s stability is to alert every citizen not to have children that they have no reasonable expectation of being able to feed until the child is old enough to work and feed itself; I don’t believe there is any substantial argument against the theory that overpopulation is the main cause of wars and other governmental upheavals.
   A leader should be exactly “average” in his level of personal success regarding money and children, or the majority will resent him and not follow him for long. Equalization of income for all citizens seems to be a requirement that very few (leaders) seem willing to address, unfortunately. We all have the potential to live about the same length of time, so why is one’s time worth more than any other’s?

   Just a little food for thought.

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   James Killian Spratt

   January 13, 2010

   @Hira: I wouldn’t call Pakistan a third world country, because it is a nuclear power, a world trader, and a helpful ally to other countries, and at least wears the hat of democracy, even though it may not be all the way there in practice yet. I admit my viewpoint is probably too narrow, never having been to Pakistan, but I feel it has the potential to become a great country. Any country does.
   The extremism, as I see it, is a mixture of elements–partly the normal internal struggle among any society for individual and in-group dominance, partly interference from outside, and mostly, an on-going internal debate about how (or whether) to modernize and join the greater family of mankind. The intensity of extremism indicates to me that there’s too much element of “hurry” to get it “right,” whichever way you think. “Push” has come to “shove.”
   A strong, but fair and realistic, central government is surely any country’s best bet. I was comparing the income tax element–common to both the US and Pakistan–and purporting that it is not a healthy element in either country, or anywhere. By this light it is questionable how “advanced” America really is, and I submit that the seething resentment of our populace due to tax oppression from Washington comes out in foreign displaced aggression. Any people’s own leaders can be their worst enemy.

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