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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (145796)9/17/2004 12:36:19 AM
From: Bruce L   of 281500
 
Ed,
Re: THE PROPENSITY FOR REVENGE AND JIHAD

Didn't we agree to have a debate on the character of the Iraqi "People" as it relates to revenge and jihad? On 8/22/04 I had written:

<<Bluntly, you have a romantic, "Frank Herbert" type vision of a courageous Iraqi people, united in a jihad against the United States. You speak of a "hive" that has been riled, of people "who bleed and sweat their lives away," of Bush's disdain for the "power and pride" of the average Iraqi people. You stated that if a Fatwa were issued tomorrow to kill Americans and force them from Iraq: "I believe it would be a bloodbath and the number of Shiites that would take up arms would be remarkable."

I believe, Ed, that this is crap; that this is one of those "emotional ideas" that enslave you.>> Message 20436502

I wrote a piece on 8/30/04 to the effect that a people as abused as the Iraqis could never act as you suggest . Message 20463837 You thereafter stated 4 -5 times that you would post a reply. But you still haven't.

Now you claim that the Iraqis have a revengeful nature -quite different from the Vietnamese -and will nurture a hatred of Americans that will last for generations.

Why isn't this also a figment of your romantic imagination?

Bruce
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