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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (119711)6/13/2005 3:11:08 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 793854
 
Remember that on 9/12 we were fighting a handful of zealots who were desperately attempting to create a clash of cultures. Those zealots were successful in striking us hard, in part because of the ineptitude of security agencies who had the information but not the brains to stop them. On 9/12, however, we weren't facing a huge level of condemnation from most populations of the world, we weren't dealing with wholesale radicalized Muslim populations and we weren't sinking a huge amount of our brainpower, manpower and resources into the morass in Iraq.

The rising tide of Islamism did not start on 9/12, nor could it remotely be described as belonging only to a "handful of zealots" at that date. The radicalization of Muslim populations did not start on 9/12. The Muslim's world's hatred of the US as the heir of Western power did not start on 9/12. All these processes have been building for a generation at least, many generations in some cases.

All that happened on 9/12 was that you started to pay attention. You have confused your first notice for the time of the creation of these events. This leads to confusion in your conclusions, which all suffer from the post hoc, ergo propter hoc fallacy.

World wide ideologies take a long time to brew. George Bush's actions in 2001 - 2005 no more caused Islamism and all the radicalization of the Muslim world that that implies, than did Winston Churchill's actions in 1917 - 1920 cause Communism with all its attendant radicalization. Communism existed before Churchill began to fight it, and it didn't grow stronger just because he fought.
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