[QUOTE=lkfmdc;891007]They targeted us for supporting Israel
They also targeted us for being Christion and not “obeying the word of G’d”
They also targeted us for having troops in Saudi Arabia, their holy land
Like any fundamentalist, they are convinced they are right because they own the true words of G’d and that anything is acceptable because they are fighting those who dare disobey the word of G’d
All fundamentalists are teh same, it isn’t the religion, it’s the variation[/QUOTE]
I think your point #3 is accurate and I am not so sure about the rest.
I would ask what would america do with a standing army of a foreign nation on it’s soil, say not far from washington?
Also, there are plenty of so called fundamentalist thinkers in the west here who hold to exactly the same principles and ideals, but just on the topsy turvy side of the coin.
Why do we launch an all out offensive on a backwater place that can’t actually send an army at us, take over their country, take their natural resources and build our pipelines through thier territories? Why do we do that?
We are doing it for a couple of reasons.
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Afghansitan is a lawless wasteland and has been for almost a half a century, if we don’t get in and take control, we wind up with taliban doing the same, so, lets get in there.
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For iraq, that the worlds 3rd or 5th largest oil reserves. For America it makes economic sense to destroy it’s government and infrastructure and steal the rest. It took a lot of years to orchestrate the result that we have now and it was done across a few presidencies. The set up being played and dealt by teh neo-cons since as far back as the Nixon era when Rumsfeld was first starting out as was Cheney.
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War was not declared after the bombing of the wtc the first time.
4.war was not declared when the embassy was bombed in africa.
5.war was not declared when the uss cole was attacked
6.war was not declared when american soldiers were dragged through the streets of mogadishu.
- war was not declared when hezbollah was launching rpgs and rockets into israel.
The entire premise and storyline is severely flawed and cannot be justified under any banner except for imperialism and expansionism.
The only question is do we in the west ave the fortitude and will to carry on with our aggressions towards these other countries, conquer them and take the spoils?
I don’t know if that sits well with such a society as ours. It’s a bit too roman perhaps.
It’s hard to soft sell necessary actions based on the desires of a nation.
Killing must be done at times and for people who have grown up and lived their entire lives in a sheltered and insulated manner, well, they have difficulty relating to the necessity of killing, conquering and making war as an aspect of the human condition.
we have spoiled ourselves by sparing the spartan demeanour we need to keep such a huge economy and wasteful take it for granted society of consumer slaves running. lol
anyway, something to mull over…
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