Originally posted by: cwjerome
Jhhnn.... Well sir, I have studied the roots of Islamic terrorism and I am quite familiar with US policies for the last 30 years. In other topics that deal with the subject I am very critical of past US policies, but there's a little more to it than the simplistic blame-America for terrorism bullshit. Your post is exactly what I have been talking against though... if you think my ideas are too simplistic to fit into a sound bite, you yourself have failed to understand the deep arguments for why we face this today and what should be done about it.
You don't understand that the roots aren't about the Shah of Iran, they aren't about the formation of Israel... it goes back hundreds and hundreds of years. We aren't the Great Satan because of the Shah... that was just the RESULT of our being the Great Satan. We aren't the Great Satan because of Israel, we supposrt Israel BECAUSE we are the Great Satan. You are ignorant, and it's the blind ramblings such as yours that have helped to create the problems we face today and will only make things worse. You do not have the knowledge and the courage to see things for what they are, and therefore your prescriptions will only lead to suicide.
Oh, and if you think the terrorists had solid justification before what they did on 9/11 -which is what you seem to imply- then I would consider you no better than those animals and hopefully you will get what you deserve someday
The conflict between Christianity and Islam has deep roots in history that is true. But the current incarnation of that conflict is rooted in modern times and modern history.
In the land of the blind the one eyed cyclop is king. It seems in the land of the paranoid the fearmonger is king. Btw, Kerry has promised to focus more on al Qa'ida in the "war on terror".
One problem here is that the cure is worse than the disease. Terrorism in the name of anti-terrorism kills far more people than the strikes from the terrorists do. For Bin Laden et al the strike against the WTC (an attack on the symbol of US economic might) was not terrorism as much as warfare. Just as Bush fights his war against terrorism using state terrorism.
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