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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (89503)4/3/2003 9:50:08 AM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
>>You fail to separate the actions from the motives. Do you really think that the people in the middle east don't like to have good cars and dishwashers? Do you think they enjoy being under brutal repressive regimes? Why is your thesis for the growing popularity of fundamentalist Islamism if you think it is not a backlash against the US supported corrupt regimes and by extension the West?<<

But but but -- when the fundamentalists take over, do the people get good cars and dishwashers? Are fundamentalist regimes not repressive?
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