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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: calgal who wrote (15923)	5/31/2002 11:16:43 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 27666

Re: In contrast to those who say that we must seek to understand the "root causes" of the hatred of America in the Islamic world, in terms of things that we have done wrong, D'Souza sees the fundamental causes of that hatred in the envy and resentment of American success spawned by the Islamic world's own failures. I seem to disagree with D'Souza's vision of widespread anti-Americanism throughout the Arab world... I think we could fairly narrow anti-Americanism to a few Arab countries, namely, Syria, Lybia, Egypt, Iraq, and Jordan. See, I don't even include Iran in the list since Khatami and his fellow reformers are scrambling to get their country closer to the US. Same with Turkey --NATO's second largest army... If anything, the Turks could rightfully vent their wrath on the EU --not the US. Who's left? Indonesia, the largest Muslim country, Malaysia (PM Mahatir was warmly welcomed in the White House a coupla weeks ago). Actually, a geopolitical rapprochement between the US and the Arab/Muslim world is the WORST NIGHTMARE for the Judeofascist clique. When G.W. Bush won the election in 2000, the Judeofascist clique knew that the clock was ticking against them.... The Bush dynasty's connections with Saudi Arabia, Bush's willingness to set up a Palestinian state, and the Jewish lobby's feeble leverage on GOP, all that startled the most fanatic Judeofascists into a MAJOR, terrorist ploy to keep America pitted against the "ugly Arabs"... The rest is history (read 911). Re: According to D'Souza, "the fundamentalists are a humiliated people who are seeking to recover ancestral greatness." Proud Muslims "find it hard to come to terms with their contemporary irrelevance." He asks: "When was the last time you opened the newspaper to read about a great Islamic discovery or invention?" Yet "Islam was once one of the greatest and most powerful civilizations in the world." Hating the success of Americans is a lot easier than trying to recover their own long lost greatness. The above comment by D'Souza perfectly fits the late Communist ideology as well: According to Jaeger, "the Neocommunists are a humiliated people who are seeking to recover ancestral greatness." Proud Russians "find it hard to come to terms with their contemporary irrelevance." He asks: "When was the last time you opened the newspaper to read about a great Russian discovery or invention?" (Space tourism for billionaires apart, of course...) Yet "the Soviet Union was once one of the greatest and most powerful civilizations in the world." Hating the success of Americans is a lot easier than trying to recover their own long lost greatness [...]