[Leica] : Cell Phone Parts at the Gate - Kabul NOW MAJOR QUESTION?

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 If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition
of that half of society over which the other half has power.   Martineau,
Harriet <http://quotationsbook.com/author/4758/>
Tina
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:36 AM, kyle cassidy on the LUG <
leicaslacker at gmail.com> wrote:

> You're forgetting the great civilizations of Egypt and Persia which lasted
> for thousands of years developed writing, arithmetic, medicine, 
> agriculture,
> astronomy & engineering.  By comparison North America's position at the top
> of the food chain for less than two hundred years is just a flash in the
> pan.
>
> I suspect things would be a lot less volatile in the Middle East right now
> if it didn't have a lot of oil and wasn't surrounded by countries that need
> it in enormous quantities.
>
> Jared Diamond spends a lot of time answering this question in "Guns, Germs
> & Steel"
> http://www.amazon.com/Guns-Germs-Steel-Fates-Societies/dp/0393317552there's
>  a NOVA special about it too.
>
>
>
> On Oct 10, 2010, at 1:17 PM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> <tedgrant at shaw.ca> 
> wrote:
> >
> > So how is it we evolved to the thriving modern countries we are, when
> there was nothing here a few hundred years ago? Compared to the people of
> the middle east, sub-continent wherever on that side of the world who have
> been there thousands of years and it always appears they are still 
> wallowing
> in slums, dirt roads of the past thousand years? And they were there long
> before anyone sailed to North America with nothing, in many cases nothing
> but the clothes on their back?
>
>
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