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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Neocon who wrote (181253)9/14/2001 5:24:00 PM
From: Rob S.  Read Replies (3) of 769670
 
There will be retribution but it will not come close to wiping out the problem. There are several radical factions who have the U.S. in their sights. Why won't a strike fix things? Because there is a very different set of conditions and attitudes that oppose us:

1. The U.S. has 6% of the world's population but uses 1/3 of the oil.

2. We have troops stationed throughout the Middle East because we have to protect the ability to pump that area's oil fields dry. We have the might and we will keep our position in the region. But that comes at the cost of looking like the oppressor. The middle east does benefit with their trade with the west; The region is not much more than a desert without it.

3] They are poor and we are rich and arrogant.

4] They live in the grip of fear as a way of life, we lived in ignorant bliss.

5] They can't escape their point of view because they live with a simple impoverished reality every day. We shift from one distraction to the other and can hardly keep up with the information over load. The horrific WTC will long be remembered by each side but having the resolve to face the tough systemic problems and working through them for decades may fall similar fates to prior disenchantments.

America has a different viewpoint from much of the world. Certain factions, particularly the religious radicals, do not want their people to be seduced by our materialism. It usurps their influence and changes their way of life. As wonderful as we may see things, they want to destroy our influence. We can't simply wipe them out. There are over 1 billion Muslims in the world. A very small percentage are radical. But if we act like superior lords (ass holes) of the world many more will learn to hate us.
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