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I find it sickening when people use the actions of a few radical extremists to paint all Muslims as hellbent on the destruction of the US. Most Muslims are people like you and me.
Yes, yes, yes, and there are over one and a half billon people who think that there is only one GOD (The Arab word GOD is roughly translated in English as Allah) and he is the GOD of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Mohammed. History is replete with Christians every bit as evil as a Bin laden and such people exist today. For example the man who ordered the killing of 1600 unarmed people in Sebrenica because they were Muslim in the mid 1990s is a devout Serbian Orthodox Christian believer. Vladimir Putin makes a public show of his annual blessing by Patriarch Kyrill on Russian Christmas (Patriarch Kyrill is the "highest " Orthodox rite authority so Mr Putin must be a hell of a Christian).
I find it sickening when people use the actions of a few radical extremists to paint all Muslims as hellbent on the destruction of the US. Most Muslims are people like you and me.
I agree....I know some very cool Muslims......
I can't stand the preconceived notions people have
OK, what about Switzerland? They are free. Why don't the terrorists "hate their freedom?"
Austria?
Canada?
Brazil? Hell, the women in Brazil prance around in public nearly nude all the time. Why don't the Muslims hate them for that?
Is it because they know Switzerland, Austria, Canada, and Brazil will "retaliate with a vengeance?"
No. Nothing against those countries, but they're so far down the list that they aren't worth attacking yet. Israel is a target because it is nearby. The US is a target because it is the biggest easiest target.
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Hell, the Muslims weren't attacking the United States in the 1800's and we were "free" then. What, could they not get on a boat and come here?
Because back then the US and other Western powers were also willing to "retaliate with a vengeance." So when Muslim pirates captured and enslaved US sailors the US went to war with them as opposed to the European countries who bribed them not to do it, and when the US's biggest warship was captured by these guys the Americans didn't give up they came back and kept fighting until the guys decided that they could leave Americans alone without being paid a bribe. Also lacking the ability to easily build and deploy large bombs their options were to shoot up crowds where many of the men would be armed or charge machine gun nests.
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Why regret it? That region has been a hornets nest since the beginning of time, and we should not let one drop of American blood be spilled over there! BTW I'm not an isolationist either, but more a non-interventionalist. But we need to focus on matters at home, and fix our problems.
when one shakes the hornets nest one will get stung, in more ways than one..
OK, what about Switzerland? They are free. Why don't the terrorists "hate their freedom?"
Austria?
Canada?
Brazil? Hell, the women in Brazil prance around in public nearly nude all the time. Why don't the Muslims hate them for that?
Is it because they know Switzerland, Austria, Canada, and Brazil will "retaliate with a vengeance?"
Please.
It has nothing to do with them "hating us because of our freedom" and everything to do with our interventionist policies in the Middle East.
Hell, the Muslims weren't attacking the United States in the 1800's and we were "free" then. What, could they not get on a boat and come here?
First it has nothing to do with Freedoms. Arabs follow Tribal rules and you have to retaliated against them with Tribal rules. The US, EU, UN concept of responding with words is a sign of weakness. Russia & China understand this Tribal concept very well. The nations you listed would go cry to the UN if they we're hit with 9/11 style attacks.
We live in a Global world. We gotta do what we gotta do.
No, I live in the United States. And the United States should mind it's own damn business for a change.
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First it has nothing to do with Freedoms. Arabs follow Tribal rules and you have to retaliated against them with Tribal rules. The US, EU, UN concept of responding with words is a sign of weakness. Russia & China understand this Tribal concept very well. The nations you listed would go cry to the UN if they we're hit with 9/11 style attacks.
Yeah..Still though, the United States went from being the most popular western nation among the Arabs to the most hated, and I don't believe that change in relationship is the Arab's fault. No way. They soured on us for a reason...actually, many reasons.
Those other nations aren't hit with those attacks because they don't meddle in Arab affairs.
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