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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rock_nj who wrote (6548)	5/20/2004 10:41:30 AM
From: LPS5	Respond to of 20039

I think the one reason why it does matter to Americans if the two sides in the Isreali [sic] /Palestinian conflict keep fighting is because that "fighting" sometimes spills onto our own soil, with attacks on [J]ews or [A]rabs in our own country... Various groups with a vested interest in the outcome of that conflict are inevitably going to tangle in far-flung locales, but that's as unavoidable as nationalist riots at European football games. On the other hand, when our government begins picking sides, sending funds to various groups and selectively directing invective and decrees, we all become targets. Whether we want it to or not, the state speaks for us. The implications thereafter are far weightier than those suggested by a group of Arab teenagers getting into a fistfight with a bunch of Hasidic teenagers on a New York City street corner. ...and things like 9/11 which might be loosely associated with that never-ending conflict in Middle East. Though I supported going after al Qaeda and their Taliban hosts after the attacks of September 11th, I'll be among the first to blame our having garrisoned troops in Saudi Arabia, among other places, for the animosity we've experienced. Having said that, I find it curious that the same groups haven't directed their murderous instincts at the regime in Khartoum, which is presently killing and displacing Muslims wholesale. LPS5