xsarien daedsiluap (12-14-03 02:12:27 PM) Reply
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Originally posted by Iceman Holy
War?
IF.. IF.. so.. then are we responsible for every
holy war in the world?
Actually, our foreign policy over the
past few decades is precisely the reason of so many "holy
wars" aimed in the United States' general direction. Our
presence in the Middle East in general is a mixed bag, and a
lot of terrorists through our eyes are viewed as freedom
fighters through the eyes of people who've lost loved ones to
goof ups on our end; who see our military presence in their
countries as an affront to their own culture and an attempt to
force our own upon them.
A few days ago, we bombed a
reported Taliban site in Afghanistan. Unfortunately, there was
a lot of collateral damage in the "under 18" category; they
were civilians who had nothing to do with the Taliban, they
were just there by coincidence. The U.S. military's response
was, essentially "Oops. Our bad." Does it happen?
Unfortunately yes, but the perception is that moves like that
are just a confirmation of our "evil", and somewhere down the
line they'll try to seek revenge in the name of
religion.
The Bush administration - to possibly
over-simplify - is taking nice, big swats at the hornet nest
because we got stung by one. So, not only are they creating a
massive debt that you, me, our kids, and our kids' kids are
going to have to clean up well after he's out of office, but
they're also creating plenty of more possible terrorists for
them to deal with as well.
Bra-fucking-vo. Yeah, we
caught Saddam. Too bad this whole thing started as a phantom
threat to the very existence to the United States and morphed
into "He's a very bad man." (And yes, for the record, I'm
happy he's captured, but I'll break out the champagne when
Bush's apparent policy on human rights extends to more
egregious offenders than Hussein, who at best could be
described as "someone trying really, really, really hard to be
Stalin, but failing.")
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