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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (21569)	7/21/2005 5:10:04 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

"we, at the moment, occupy Arab lands. Moderates are being turned because of our actions..." Nonsense. Weak-minded people are attaching to a nationalistic, totalitarian movement for the same sorts of reasons that attracted others before them to similar movements in other lands over history. They do not enjoy freedom - social, political or economic - in their own lands (because of their own governments, not because we invaded Iraq), they are oppressed (not by us), they want change and the Islamofascists promise it, while pointing the finger of blame at the infidel west. They surrender their individuality and their power of reason to Osama the same way many Germans did to Hitler, many Italians did to Moussolini, and many Russians did to Lenin and Stalin. Nationalism, which is not the same as patriotism, BTW, takes many forms and this is just another example. And furthermore, those who attach to one find it easy to attach to another when the first fades, for whatever reason. For example, did you know that many of the early Nazis in Germany and Fascists in Italy (including Mousolini) were disaffected communists? It would not surprise me if, likewise, many of Saddam's most fanatical Baathists are now fiercely loyal to Osama, or at least Zarqawi. It has nothing to do with who they perceive as the enemy - just that they DO perceive one and blame that enemy for misery that is not of its making.