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  • From: Medical Illustration <druid AT email.unc.edu>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: Peace Rally
  • Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 14:35:47 -0400


A thousand apologies (not sarcastic, by the way),

For some reason I keep thinking & typing & saying Turkey when I mean
Afganistan-- Thanks for the correction, or I wouldn't have noticed. Would
somebody please smack my hands with a ruler so I can pay more attention.

And a thousand apologies to Turkey and any of its denizens for my typo.

Drew



On 9/21/01 2:30 PM, "Jason Laughlin" <jason AT jasonlaughlin.com> wrote:

> Whoa, back the truck up. Y'see, this is the sort of ignorance that gets
> Americans in
> trouble (esp. the ones holding the guns) when they get involved with
> international policy.
>
> Turkey is a secular state and part of NATO. There is a sizable Islamic
> population, but the
> majority of the population and the government supports secular policies and
> parliamentary
> representation, including Western preferences for their legal and economic
> systems.
>
> I believe you were attempting to cite some misunderstood form of what passes
> for rule of
> law under the Taliban in Afghanistan.
> Jason
>
>
> Medical Illustration wrote:
>
>> How about instead of international law we punish these sons of bitches
>> using
>> turkish law -- Lets see, a man is allowed to kill his wife for not being a
>> virgin there -- owning a TV can result in imprisonment or death -- wonder
>> what the punishment would be if a man killed several of his fellow turks?
>>
>> Drew
>
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