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India backs George Bush in global poll
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RabidMongoose
Lifer
I have a suspicion that if Bush and Kerry were running for the leadership of any country in the world, more countries and people would vote for Bush. Most of the world seems fairly conservative regarding social issues. If Bush was running against Kerry in India, it would probably be a landslide victory for Bush, even if you only consider one issue - homosexual rights. However most countries want the US to have the foreign policy of Kerry instead of Bush if running under the US. They don't care about any other issues.
RabidMongoose
Lifer
Sure, why not? They seem to get a lot of terrorist attacks. I seem to remember reading that they had one of the largest deaths resulting from terrorism at one point. Even their Parliament was attacked - that's pretty crazy to think about.
It's not a stretch at all to think that there are people around targetting India - even Russia had people in the school hostage from more than one area/country.
RabidMongoose
Lifer
That's very true. I remember someone posting here once that a country actually sent its regrets that Bush won.
No, you can't, I agree. But what you CAN do is get the 99% of the people in that part of the world who AREN'T in Al Qaeda on your side, they won't want Al Qaeda around any more than you do. I'm almost positive if we had the support of the Muslim world, minus the violent extremists, we'd have much better luck.
But we aren't there yet because we aren't doing so well in winning over the people in the Middle East (or anywhere else, apparently). I'm not sure it's a perfect approach, but it seems like Al Qaeda's strength comes from the number of people in the Middle East that don't like us. If we can improve that, no one over there will WANT to support Al Qaeda.
MisterCornell
Banned
Iran is not a rogue state. Iranians are not joining the global jihad and sawing the heads of Americans, like Muslims from a whole host of other countries are. Iran is not sponsoring terrorist acts against the U.S., which many other Muslim countries do or let their citizens do while turning a blind eye to it. The U.S. would actually be wise to turn Iran into an ally. It would be helpful in the Iraq situation.
In retrospect the whole Iranian hostage crisis seems like much ado about nothing. It's nothing compared to the Iraq situation. It wasn't a good thing, but it's important to keep these issues in some perspective. The U.S. has been obsessed over this for 25 years. It's time to let it go.
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are the biggest rogue states on Earth. Both of them propped up by the U.S.
In retrospect the whole Iranian hostage crisis seems like much ado about nothing. It's nothing compared to the Iraq situation. It wasn't a good thing, but it's important to keep these issues in some perspective. The U.S. has been obsessed over this for 25 years. It's time to let it go.
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are the biggest rogue states on Earth. Both of them propped up by the U.S.
Iran is a rogue state no matter how you look at it. It has been for the past 20 years. Chief sponsor of terrorism, that says it all. Biggest abuser of civil rights.
I agree however that Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are countries that have also supported a lot of terror and yet we support them. Its hypocritical. I totally agree.
In fact, Pakistan supported the Taliban until 9/11, on 9/12 however they cut off diplomatic relations with them. How convenient. Bush made a huge mistake by making them a major non-NATO ally.
And we all know about Saudi Arabia.
MisterCornell
Banned
Why don't you tell me about some terrorist acts that Iran has sponsored against the U.S. in the last 10 years?
MisterCornell
Banned
Hardly. There's considerable democracy in Iran, definitely moreso than most Muslim states. Also Iran has followed the Chinese model of giving their people petty freedoms (in Iran's case, women don't have to walk around in public with burkas as they do in most Muslim countries, a lot of things are tolerated just not criticism of those in power, etc.).
Not according to this: http://www.expressindia.com/ie...19980525/14550314.html or http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/meast/9805/22/khobar.towers/. Saudi Arabia says its own people were responsible for it.
Even the U.S. government doesn't know for sure if Iran was involved: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khobar_Towers_bombing
The daily terrorist attacks in Iraq have little or nothing to do with Iran. Those attacks are predominantly being committed by Sunni Muslims. If any Iranian even approached Abu Zarqawi, he would likely have his head cut off for being an "infidel".
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