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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: TH who wrote (61015)12/11/2002 11:43:17 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
And I am making a point, just not a subtle one. Violence will be required to end this. And although it is completely against my nature and my preference, I am fully prepared to support it.

I agree, but we must clearly distinguish between the Islamist terrorists who are trying to kill us and Arabs in general. I want to see the Arabs as brutally disillusioned about the 'benefits' of Militant Islam as they are about the 'benefits' of Socialism. I agree that violence will be required to accomplish this. But the only end to wish for is to see the Arab states join the modern world. Once people have a stake in their own government, they will care about their own lives, not sink their identities into the foreign football match of the Israeli/Pal conflict or dreams of a new caliphate.

We should never for a moment let ourselves stop regarding Arabs as human beings. Indeed, as I have said repeatedly, I think it those who make excuses for Arab terrorism and human rights abuses, who judge them on a different scale from Israelis or Europeans, who are regarding them as less than human. This includes the US government, which has always behaved as if democracy was the property of Westerners, but not something to strive for in the Arab world. I am glad to see that that too is changing now.
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