#84 JackT:
“You assholes just enjoy going off and blowing up stuff. They love that, it just gives them more incentive to teach their young to hate us.”
How sad, here you are calling for us to take a more perceptive and nuanced view of the Muslim world,(correctly so, IMO), yet you are displaying every indication of the Manichean weltanscahuung towards your own countrymen.
Newsflash…there are people out there, (and in here, too!), who are going to hate us no matter what we do or do not do.
If you think that Islamist terrorism is a direct reaction to our foreign and military policies, then I ask you to explain the Madrid terrorist attacks of 7/7.
Who’d the Spanish ever piss off lately?
Whose stuff did they blow up?
But they got the terrorist mass-murder all the same.
For the haters out there, they,(and more pointedly, their neighbors), have to have a certainty that acts of terror against us are not going to go unpunished, and our vengeance is going to be harsh enough that it will be far better for them to abandon their schemes…or to betray those plans, if they have foreknowledge of them.
“The words “war on terror” only inflames the Muslim world to actually think we mean “war on Muslims”. ”
Only to the dullards and haters among them, and the no-war-for-any-reason crowd here at home.
We’ve been in Iraq for almost 6 years now, and more Muslims have died at the hands of OTHER Muslims than have died from US action.
Have you ever BEEN to the Arab world? You can’t swing a dead cat without hitting some chap who has a cousin in Detroit or a brother in Brooklyn.
They know better than that by now.
In fact, since a Muslim is FAR more likely to gakk it by another Muslim ‘s AK than from a US Marine gunship…or an IDF bomb, it might surprise you to learn how much support, albeit muted, there is for our efforts against these murderous scoundrels.
Did the meaning of the “Anbar Awakening” TOTALLY escape you? Or are you wilfully ignoring it out of some agenda of your own?
Anbar Province was Ground Zero for Al Qaeda’s Foreign terrorists in Iraq…you know what happenned? The people of Anbar got fed up with having those murderous Mooj scum in their midst, and turned ‘em out…to us, fella.
