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"Hobbist or Terrorist?" in Time Magazine

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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard Never said I was a fan of th US support of Israel, even though gramps was Jewish. And talk about role reversal, you could substitute todays Jewish policy towards Palistine with the *** policy towards Jews in WWII. Genocide is wrong, no mater whos the victim, or the aggressor. Those fools may just start WWIII if their not careful. As far as I am concerned, Israel can sink or swim on their own from here on out. Granted, their fight, on the surface, seems to be about territory, and denying the Palastines a homeland, but count on it being as much a religious war as the rest of the mess in the middle east. It still boils down to thinly veiled religious racisim. Compairing 9/11 to the Boston Tea party is farfetched. The Tea Party was a political statement agains a sovereign lord whos policy of excessive taxation and exclusionary importing rights were economical blackmail. Pure economics, but it makes good revolutionary propaganda, especially if you win the revolution. 9/11 was a cowardly attack agains civilians, by a group of religious fanatics,intended to kill as many civilians as possible, to promote their religious jihad worldwide and win support from other religious fanatics. Ed [/quote] Yanno Ed, there is an admirable amount of open mindedness in your post[bow] and I don't want to give the mistaken impression that I endorse the acts of 9/11, cause I don't. All I was saying is ,....look at it from THEIR perspective.. There is one grand influance behind most of the things causing grief in their world, ...the USA. It is us who seeks to exploit their oil It is us who supports christian missionary's who go to their land, build "schools" so that the first lesson we can teach their children is "hey, worship the same god as your parents and you will go to the land of eternal fire And it is us who supports the state imposed seggregation (I still have problems understanding how we could not support the boy scouts due to bias, but can support Israel) of Israel against their fellow semites, and who has conducted ariel raids against Iraq. WE are the reason *that* bunk flies over there, so it's no big surprise we became a target. Now, those folks over there are left taking a flyswatter after a rhinocerous if forced to face the USA on "conventional" grounds, the imbalance of power is just too great. So, am I surprised that they have employed unconve ntional means....? No. if I thought my culture was threatened for it's very survival, I might rationalize similar tactics as opposed to "going down the tubes", which is how I think they have come to feel. Or, as my dad put it years ago, "the one you need to fear is the one who feels he has nothing to lose" (fwiw)
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