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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (109423)8/6/2003 4:30:01 AM
From: Sam  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Is that what you advocate for domestic policy as well? Do nothing.. it will all work itself out somehow?

Tell that to the millions of Arabs who are living without economic hope and who blame the west (particularly the US) for supporting the regimes which have left them in this condition...

400 million muslims are currently under the age of 18... Even 1% of them becoming radicalized will mean 4 million potential terrorist bombers...


I actually agree with the above comment--but think that our actions in Iraq are ensuring that "1% of them [will become] radicalized" Or rather, that more than 1% will become so. And not just what we are doing in Iraq, but perhaps even more importantly, how we went about doing it.

I know, I know, you believe that the way we went about doing it was the only way possible, it was inevitable that we alienate not just a large part of the Muslim world but a huge part of the non-Muslim world as well. I think it was just a combination of incompetence and incredibly short-sighted domestic electoral politics.

I don't really want to rehash that old argument again, but the mess we are building is potentially so huge that I have to keep reminding myself that there was a purpose somewhere sometime, however idiotic.
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