Posted by B. Buster at cache-rk04.proxy.aol.com on May 12, 2003 at 21:23:48:
In Reply to: No no, none of that. posted by Smalls on May 12, 2003 at 17:13:37:
: 9-11 was an atrocity performed by some angry brainwashed religious militants from Saudi Arabia led by an ex-CIA operative in Afghanistan.
Oh, c'mon. Sure we had dealings with bin Laden when he was fighting the Russians, but to even suggest that he's still under the auspices of the CIA is absurd.
: Clearly, the American government didn't create this on purpose... but it was the culmination of a million mistakes that allowed it to happen.
And radical Islam is completely blameless, huh?
: The question we have to consider is: how do we stop it from happening again?
Good question.
: Does angry imperialist saber rattling, the invasion of non-threatening nations and the gunning down of crowds of protestors fix what made these people insane with hate?
How many attacks are you willing to sustain before you take action? The people who make these attacks are already insane with hate. Not doing anything isn't going to change that.
: No. In fact, it creates another generation of homeless children to be trained into monsters.
The fact is they're already being turned into monsters by their so-called mullahs.
: What we need to do is learn from the past and not repeat it by just cycling out the dictators that rebelled against us for another group of puppets that will rebel in 15 years...
Good idea. I suggest you look at radical Islam no differently than you would look at Hitler or Stalin. There may not be a single maniac at the helm, but the intent is the same: the complete overthrow of the West by radical Islam.
: And that's accomplished by pulling OUT of the region, not getting deeper in.
Half the Muslim world hates America and wishes to see it destroyed. What's it going to take you to realize this? Do they have to attack you personally before you'll do anything to defend your beliefs against this threat?
b. buster