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Originally Posted by DaddyHalbucks
No doubt.
Our citizens are more concerned with entertainment than the barbarians at the gate.
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So true...
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Originally Posted by DaddyHalbucks
GWB gets it.
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So false.
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Originally Posted by DaddyHalbucks
The danger of radical Islam cannot be overestimated. They already have murdered thousands of US citizens in 9/11 and their other attacks.
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If you believe radical Islamists are anti-US because they hate freedom and democracy then it explains why you think Bush "gets it". It's not about democracy or freedom. Bin Laden and others are opposed to US foreign policy - their perceived double standard with Israel/Saudi Arabia vs. everywhere else in the middle east.
The US has killed hundreds of thousands, many innocent, in the Middle East. They sell military hardware to their "friends" while deterring sales to others. They carpet bomb villages, try to overthrow governments, support radicals and rebels they deem the lesser of two evils and so on.
This isn't of course GWB's fault, this has been US foreign policy for decades, but only in the last 15-20 years or so has it really come back to bite them in the ass (WTC, etc.).
While I am in no way siding with terrorists, nor do I condone any of their actions but it's ignorant to believe they are simply opposed to freedom and thus, the USA ... if so, they'd be attacking Canada too wouldn't they? As far as I know terrorist groups have never openly stated issues with us - why not?
