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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (8377)	12/21/2004 12:18:53 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32591

I honestly wonder if it is: A) Similar to the Red / Blue state division. Arabs view brutally hacking a man's head off by Muslim Terrorists as just part of what the freedom wielding Americans deserve for trying to liberate Muslims from the tyranny they deserve. But Americans who humiliate Muslims are the least common denominator of human behavior. B) They expect brutal inhumane treatment at the hand of Muslims, but hold Americans to a higher standard. C) Something else. D) A - just expressed differently. How can the mythical Arab street condone the behavior of systematic brutal thugs, and condemn a few slip ups and overzealousness of a handful of misguided Americans? Peter

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (8377)	12/21/2004 2:15:15 AM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 32591

Interesting is the fact that there are no outcries related to those murderous terrorist attacks by the arab world... There never was when Algeria was in full civil war in the mid/late 90's. I saw things in the French news media at times that really shocked me, like a photo of little kid's heads in a bucket after terrorists passed through and killed everyone they could in an elementary school. A nice "Islamist moment". Iraq is looking more like Algeria all the time - it's really too bad we didn't have the resources to put some serious manpower in the country to kill off any of this "insurgency" right at the beginning. Now it's looking like a disease that has to run its course, as happened in Algeria eventually. I haven't changed my opinion that we should have decisively finished with Afghanistan before ever doing anything in Iraq. It's not like there was a real rush - we'd dicked around with Iraq for years already, a few more while that rat's nest in Afghanistan and the tribal mountain regions was cleaned out wouldn't have mattered. Now we are still getting the finger from bin Laden and have a stupid mess on our hands, and even if Iraq eventually turns out well years from now, we'll get the blame for everything that was wrong. Meanwhile the biggest danger for America is our debt and trade deficit, not terrorism by a long shot. I am not saying terrorism is non existent, but it pales in comparison to the economic danger the US faces. For Israel of course, Islamist terrorism is a vastly greater relative problem than here in the US.