John Keley wrote...
"There are terrorists who'd want to do nasty things to us for simply
allowing global trade, or for allowing trade with repressive regimes like
Saudi Arabia or Nigeria, or for selling weapons to countries with bad human
rights records."
Hummm...kind of an odd argument, don't you think? Should it still be called
"terrorism" if there exist those that oppose a world-wide oppressive and
corrupt regime that in turn props up any petty dictator that smells as
rotten as we are?
"Osama Bin Laden might not hate us, but *someone* would."
Well, perhaps we fucked with the wrong guy. In other words, its one thing to
piss off a small number of people, but if you keep stomping around the globe
screwing people over and spouting tired rhetoric, you're bound to attract
the attention of someone with enough money, networks, determination and
religious zealotry who makes it their mission in life to take you out.
Perhaps its no big coincidence that OBL is Saudi and that we've supported
and propped up the repressive Saudi regime for years. (He's also stated many
times that one of his goals is to topple the corrupt Saudi regime and to
remove American control.)
It's funny...but I think I just understood what "infidel" means...
"Even if we were just an economic giant with little foreign policy, we'd
still have an impact by which countries we chose to trade with, and if
someone could improve their fortunes by several billion dollars a year by
finding a few gullable guys to strap dynamite to themselves and blow up
shopping malls and such, I'm sure they'd do just that."
Perhaps we should try it and see? Ah well. But remember, it just might be
that OBL and Co are not just half a dozen guys in a Pakistani cave. Perhaps
there are thousands who are almost equally angry, and every time the
Israelis use one of our whiz-bangs to kill their kids, we add a few more to
the roster of those willing to strap dynamite to themselves.
BTW...a Muslim co-worker sardonically stated recently that our new war with
Iraq is just a way to show more smart missle "advertisements" to the petty
dictators we peddle our stuff to.
-TD
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