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Originally posted by RawAlex@Apr 2 2004, 12:00 PM
The tit for tat act / retaliation / retribution / payback / evening of the score / eye for an eye horsehit that has been middle east politics for as long as I can remember looks to be spreading to the entire world. Terrorists drag everyone down, and Bush is stupid enough to get engaged in a war that cannot be won until 100% of the other side is dead.
It sucks.
Alex
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We can agree that it sucks, but ...
Now wait just a minute here, Alex. You are doing almost exactly the same thing as Mike - you are confusing the war in Iraq with the war on terror.
The United States
is engaged in a war on terror that cannot be won until 100% of the other side is dead, and that is NOT George Bush's fault. I have absolutley no problem with fighting that war whatsoever. I would be more than happy to put the fire out on the dead burning bodies of the members of alQaida and like-minded groups by pissing on them on al Jezera television. I promise to chant an "ohmmmmm", sing kum-by-yah and feel guilty about it afterwords, but that's what it will take to win that war.
As much as I think Bush is the root of all evil, I cannot blame him for that war. He wasn't anywhere near the federal government when that war started. The war on Islamic fundamentalism is very real. The fools that blather on about creating a democracy in Iraq don't seem to realize that some of the governments in the Islamic world that were making steps toward implementing democracy have had to scale those efforts back because of attacks from Islamic fundamentalists. They are every bit as mistaken as those who think we just need to understand them (the terrorists) better, "atone" for our past sins, or whatever the current peacenik rhetoric is.
The war on terror and Islamic fundamentalism is very real. In the war on terror, Iraq was a colossal mistake - comprable to attacking Hitler's nominal ally, Spain's Franco, in 1945, rather than invading France.