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| Condi states the obvious, many people will be surprised |
| 2002-05-02 |
| United States National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said during an address at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies that while extremism and progress were enemies of one another, one did not have to reject tradition and belief to reap the benefits of progress. She said this was also the central message of General Pervez Musharraf's speech of Jan 12 to which President Bush had referred in his state of the union address. Unless one belongs to an extremist tradition. Burying women under piles of rocks strikes many of us as extremist. But experience has show that, once thoroughly defeated as, say the Japanese were, the extremist elements can be dropped from a society without destroying its culture... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |