Originally posted by: DarkThinker
Yet you gladly do HUGE business with a communist anti-individual liberty country such as China, spare me your theories about trade please.
Also will you stop using what happens in Saudi Arabia as what happens in every country there is Muslims in please? Saudi Arabia is filled to the brim with Wahabis, people who I don't really see as true Muslims for the most part, they have their own views and philosophy.
Uh, I didn't give you theories on trade???

I understand what you're saying about us doing an insane amount of business with China...why American's continue to buy Chinese goods (when they have a chance to buy something made somewhere else) I have no idea...we're leading to our own demise buy our greed for cheap goods...no argument from me there.
As far as SA, sure, it's yet another example of why moderate muslims need to start maturing the mindset. Sudan is not SA, yet we have yet another pristine example of what happens when it's not moderate Islam influencing the population...just how many countries/areas is it going to take before the Muslim community itself starts taking
real measures to reign in their own???
Have you asked yourself why those radicals are willing to die going after us in the first place? People like you are giving them the platform to stay in existence and grow. Stop invading colonizing/raping countries, then support for radicals will shrink and the moderates would overcome again. That is but a pipe dream though, that's the only oil in the world we can freely control if we fight enough and that is the object, that and the strategic land, don't fool yourself, any country in power would go for that.
Sure, I realize that past US policy/actions has bred many people who are setup to be brainwashed to kill us, in reality I don't blame those folks a bit. If someone dropped a bomb on my house and killed my family, I'd want to kill them too. The question though is: Why did we take that action? Was it because we just decided to go blow up a house full of civs for fun, or, was it because we got intelligence (which is many times going to be from Muslims) that we someone we needed to take out was in that house? What then? Let him go?
Also, we don't "invade" other countries and rape them. I keep seeing this whining excuse used for us being in Iraq, and it's flat out wrong. We went into Iraq killing an absolute minimum of civilians, and instead of sealing off the oil fields and shooting anyone who came near them, we sacrificed almost 4,000 of our own to get that country to be for the people, instead of against them. Don't sit here and tell me Russia or China or Iran would have done it better, because we all know the civ deathtoll would have been
far higher.
I don't know how/when you expect moderates to overcome a brutal dictator like Saddam? How and When was that going to happen exactly? How are these civ's in Sudan going to overcome the butchers there? Answer: They won't. And since they won't, then it's either let those regime's continue, or overthrow them.
I don't dispute we went into Iraq partly because of oil...I'm sure if that was Madagascar or some other wholly un-important country, we'd be like Good luck with that... However I don't believe at all we went there
solely for oil, or even as the major reason. A successful Iraq can one day become an anchor for moderation in the ME. That it's civ population - once it figures out it's themselves killing each other and not the US - will be far ahead of those in other nearby countries once real trade with the US is started is just a side benefit. I sometimes wonder if those in the ME realize the US is doing what it's doing in Iraq for the benefit of Iraqi's, and not just so the US has more oil (hint: we had just as much oil at cheaper prices beforehand, without spending 100's of Billions and expending lives to get it). I realize it's hard sometimes for those who live in regions where distrust and wariness is the name of the game...it can be hard to understand when people show up with just good intentions and little more (read: US in Iraq, Teacher in Sudan).
And before you look at the radicals oversees, why don't you fell free ATM to look at the radicals in this country? Their methods might seem to the naked eye better sophisticated, their intentions however are just as sinister.
And are you telling me that the US gladly offered 4000 of it's sons and daughters for the sake of Iraqi's well being? No one is that gullible maybe here but not in the ME. Most Americans don't buy it ATM either thank God.
Radicals in this country? Which ones are those? Bush? He's radical because he sent 4,000 of his own to die to liberate (Yes Narmer, it
was a liberation, if you remember, Saddam and his sons weren't exactly nice people; and it's not the US over there killing people, it's Muslim on Muslim violence) Iraq, spent 100 of Billions of his own countries money, and will be known forever as a POS in his own country because of it? Yeah, he was radically too well intentioned. How about the radical UN? Those radicals jumped to save the people of Sudan being butchered by the truck full....oh wait, that's right, the UN (read: the rest of the world) did nothing, and
still has done nothing.
It'd be funny if it wasn't killing our own that our soldiers go over with the best of intentions to Iraq, are killed, all the while Muslims (and our own apologists/self-haters/defeatists here at home) wail Look what the US has done, Look what the US has done, when it's the Muslims themselves over there through their own pettiness that are killing each other.
It's not The Great Satan F'ing up Iraq for the past few years, it's Iraqi's themselves. How about them Radicals?
Chuck