well terrorism apparently doesn't work, who would've thought. Maybe crawl out of the dark ages, put down your rifles, and let your women think (and drive). Seriously Afghanistan deserved the wrath of God's own fury, be happy we left anyone alive... as for Iraq... I don't think we should've gone there, but it wasn't because it was a Muslim country... religion has little to do with U.S. foreign policy.
as for the lady lower down... I don't think all Muslims are terrorists. I have many Muslim friends. I would say that your average Muslim is a good person who hates terrorism as much as anyone else. I would also say your average government in predominantly Muslim countries either tolerates or supports some form of terrorist organization... its not about attacking Muslims, it is about attacking and dismantling those evil governments.
2007-01-13 23:54:03
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answered by flawed broadcast 3
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The United States has defended Kuwait - a Muslim country, and Kosovo - a Muslim country. The United States or its citizens have been attacked in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon, Somalia, and the U.S.S. Cole was attacked off the shores of Yemen.
The U.S. is NOT going to attack Iran or Syria, and they would be insane to do so, nor do they have the manpower for it because they are too busy with Iraq right now. Your saying that the U.S. is about to attack Iran and Syria is pure speculation and has no basis in fact whatsoever. The U.S. will leave the occupied countries when a stable democratic government has been established there.
The U.S. and its coalition allies went after the Taliban because the Taliban harbored the CRIMINALS who attacked the U.S. on September 11th, 2001. The U.S. went after Iraq because it was authorized to do so by the United Nations Security Council.
The United States does not attack countries because they are Muslim - they attack countries because they are a threat to the safety and security of the United States or its allies. I assure you - the U.S. does NOT want to be involved in this, but after the 9/11 attacks it feels that it has to defend itself in whatever ways are necessary. I personally disagree with some of the methods that have been used, but in America we have these things called "elections" where we change who our leaders are by voting them out of office if we don't like the way they are running things. In the past election here, we voted a LOT of our leaders out of a job.
By the way - I did not vote for our current president, and our recent elections were a sign that most of the rest of the country disagrees with his foreign policy in Iraq. That might be difficult to understand from outside the country, but it is true.
2007-01-14 00:06:30
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answered by Paul H 6
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For crying out loud to the other answers, not all Muslims support the likes of Bin Laden. Bin Laden was trained by the CIA, that's the truth. The USA created Al Queda in order to defeat the Soviet occupation of Afganistan. And now that same extremist entity fought for the cause of Palestine.
The war in Iraq can be described as sheer greed and stupidity, Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 and did NOT posses WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION as the Americans have been boasting about.
Iraq is a collapsed state, and the current civil war is threatening to spread throughout the entire Middle Eastern region, especially if an attack on Iran takes place. Thanks to what Bush started!
Its a shame that many Americans understand so little about the Middle East and believe practically everything on the Zionist influenced media.
The way America is going in the Middle East and roaring at Iran, I can say that America will carry an extremely heavy weight on its shoulders throughout history.
2007-01-14 00:21:28
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answered by Zabanya 6
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Terrorism is occurring, Terrorism is being supported by the countries we have attacked and obviously by people like yourself. Want to stop the wars, stop the terrorists or continue to stick your head in the sand and pretend that it doesn't occur. Try to get your facts straight. The US has not attacked Iran or Syria. The United States has not shown any inclination, nor provided any evidence that such a move is inevitable and the United States has not attacked Lebanon. The bases in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are approved and sponsored by the host countries.
Please Note: Stop supporting terrorists.
Farzand A: No Americans are calling for wholesale slaughter of Muslims. Wholesale slaughter of Muslims is not being carried out by AMerican forces anywhere in the world. Muslim are not being interned in the United States and their freedoms are not being abridged. The United States government did not cite 911 as a cause for invading Iraq this is a media myth which the left continues to improperly exploit. Iraq did have weapons of mass destruction, we know this because they used them and further we have located limited quantities of these weapons since the invasion. Whether there were terrorists in Iraq before the invasion is irrelevant because there are terrorists there now and we are fighting them.
normanbormann: Indeed there are 2 sides to every story and apparently you only accept one of them since your entire post is designed to explain why the west is at fault for all terrorism. There are truths in what you are saying and I do agree with many of them and yet you are just as guilty of one sided thinking as you accuse the rest of us of being. Try taking your own advice. There is no justification for killing innocents period. No matter which side it comes from. Want wars in the Middle East to cease then demand that the governments in the Middle East take a proper role in defeating terrorism along with your position that the West stop interfering in Middle Eastern affairs.
2007-01-13 23:59:48
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answered by Bryan 7
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Every country has its own agenda including Islamic countries. The question is not how muslims can stop the US (it can't); rather do they (the muslims countries) want to stop the US? Don't think so. Muslims nations like Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait, Egypt, Turkey DO NOT want Iran's brand of fundamentalism in their own respective countries; and these countries are in fact cooperating with the US-UK to counter the influence of Iran. Terrorism is not an excuse as you so conveniently put it; it is a very valid reason to crack down on the countries that harbor and allow them to flourish.
2007-01-14 00:28:02
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answered by Anonymous
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Why isnt preventing terrorism an acceptable solution. Do you recall the bombings of the us embassies in Africa, or the Uss Cole, or maybe even 9/11. They were all results of Muslim extremiists. To let Iraq stay the way it was, or is now, will be to open up a harbor for terrorists of all countries to plan attacks against us unabetted.
As far as Somolia, Ethiopia invaded the country to put in place the legitimate gov't of the country. We now are just cleaning up the pieces, trying to get more terrorist off the planet.
2007-01-13 23:54:58
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answered by shaqle2001 2
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Powerful countries have always interfered in everyone else's business. It just took us a while to get around to you.
Time was the US and the USSR made everyone decide what "camp" they were in. I seem to remember 14,000 Soviets dying in Afghanistan in the 80's. I don't remember Panama or Vietnam or Korea being Muslim either.
And before that it was the British and the French.
And before that it was Spain. or the Mongols or the Romans or the Greeks or the Egyptians .... and so on and so forth.
Doesn't make it moral ... just how it is.
And we didn't go in Somalia because it was Muslim. We went there because of the chaos left when we pulled out years before. See the Soviets were in tight with Ethiopia so we needed an ally to stalemate that part of the chess board. When the USSR collapsed, we didn't need Somalia anymore and withdrew our backing and the bottom fell out for the poor Somalis.
The Muslims hate us, not because we ignored them, not because we were against them, but because we gave them support, money and hope when it suited our interests (kicking the USSR out of Afghanistan and Iraq out of Kuwait) and turned our back on them and left them hanging when our objectives had been met. They felt betrayed, a bitter feeling indeed.
We involve ourselves now because it's kind of like the wound that you keep picking at, and you just can't help yourself.
2007-01-14 00:05:22
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answered by David E 4
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you'd be a White British AND be a Muslim jointly. What do you imagine all anybody is born Muslim? they don't look to be, many white british convert to Islam.The fastest transforming into faith in the international IS Islam. to signify that Britain is a Muslim united states is finished nonsense it has a concepts on the thanks to bypass yet. It would not help or does help notwithstanding way you want to seem at it the actual incontrovertible truth that us of a & Israel are in the back of uk each and each of ways and as anybody is customary with they are anti Islamist international locations.
2016-10-31 01:45:15
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answered by ? 4
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Why did Muslims interfere with The Twin Towers? I don't know why you think terrorism is okay, because you must think it's okay by your "please note". I believe we were in Kuwait at an invitation, if you have ever seen the picture of G.H.W. Bush holding Prince Saud's hand, he loves Prince Saud and the Saudi Royal family. You better go find OBL in his cave and ask him why he interfered in New York City and then maybe we can get to the bottom of this problem
2007-01-14 00:01:19
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answered by magpie 6
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Judging from some of the knee-jerk answers in here I can see why they call the place Yahoo. Some of you people need to ax de lib'arian lady to crack open a history book or two for you.
The way to keep the West from attacking Islamic countries, and vice versa, is to remove the only two reasons for any interaction whatsoever: Oil and israel.
Winston Churchill started all this just prior to World War I when he converted the Royal Navy from coal to oil. Suddenly, these backwater armpit countries had strategic value and needed to be "defended" at all costs. The US wasn't far behind and really took over for the UK after WW II.
If it wasn't for the oil, people, the only thing of interest in Southwest Asia would be the Suez Canal. The US, Britain and France have committed intolerable acts against the people of this region for over a hundred years now but Americans just can't figure out why they're so angry at us.
The West has toppled numerous governments there, supported whatever side would agree to keep the oil flowing, and to hell with the people who live there.
In the 1950s, when the LEGALLY ELECTED Prime Minister of Iran decided that maybe the Iranians ought to be collecting more than 15 cents on the dollar for their oil he started nationalizing the oil fields. The US and Britain overthrew him within months and installed the Shah, who used his israeli-trained secret police, the SAVAK to keep the people down for twenty years. And Americans can't understand the Iran hostage crisis??
Britain and the US have propped up the corrupt House of Saud for nearly a century now. The average Saudi would give his right hand for the same rights as his "oppressed" brothers in Iran. And people believe that 9/11 was about them hating OUR freedoms?
Egypt has had the same president, Hosni Mubarrak, for TWENTY-FIVE years now. Who in their right minds think this is because he's so darn popular? And the US sends BILLIONS of US tax dollars to Egypt as part of the pay-off to leave israel alone.
Speaking of israel, this is another reason why the West has to keep its boot on the throat of so many Middle Eastern countries. For 60 years now, the colony of israel has terrorized the region, and for 40 of those years they have so it with US tax dollars. israel is the number one largest recipient of US foreign aid and they use that money to build illegal nukes (they never signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, unlike Iran), and to build illegal settlements in the illegally occupied West Bank.
Gaza is said to be the largest prison on earth. The israelis control all of the borders, the skies, and the seaways. They patrol the region using jewish-only highways that criss-cross through both territories. Any Palestinian caught on those apartheid roads will be shot to death instantly.
If the US spent one tenth of the money Curious George has flushed down the toilet that is Mr. Wolfowitz's War, on alternative energy and mass transit this country would be well on its way to oil independence. As for israel, that colony is almost 60 now, it's all grown up. Time to cut the apron (and purse) strings and let them learn to get along with their neighbors.
The controlled media in the West loves to paint Iran's president Ahmadinejad as insane and a terrorist, (the same rhetoric they use against anyone who doesn't toe US/israeli policy) because they can't answer his simple questions:
If the holocaust™ took place in Europe, why was the colony forced on Southwest Asia?
If the West is the true bastion of freedom, why does anyone who dares to examine the holocaust™ go to prison? There are people rotting in European jails now for questioning the "official" party line on a historical event. Name one other chapter of history that is locked, sealed, and protected by threat of prison? THAT doesn't make people the tiniest bit worried?
Nobody supports "terrorism" but there are two sides, if not more, to every story. It's time some of the knee-jerks around here switched off the idiot box and learned the truth.
2007-01-14 01:06:56
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answered by normanbormann 4
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