Dumbing down the War on Islamic Terror
By Jonathan Tobin
"Last week's atrocity in London...dozens more to the toll of those murdered by Islamic terrorists."And has nothing to do with the last 50 years of American expansionism and the 30,000 humans dying daily of starvation?
"In the aftermath of Sept. 11...this awakening brought about an American counter-offensive that knocked off the Taliban regime in Afghanistan..."
Another 'mission accomplished'? Er, was that an American helicopter shot down or just a passing fancy?
"On the negative side of the post-9/11 ledger is the clear fact that much of our response has created new problems and failed to solve some old ones."
Very very old problems like the blow back from colonialism and occupation.
"Elsewhere, the conflict in Iraq may eventually turn out to be a turning point in the history of the Middle East. But the slow and painful pace of the counter-insurgency war has made it a natural focus of discontent, both domestically and internationally."
No, not discontent...the sinking stinking feeling of history repeating itself.
"Most of all, with the passage of time, many Americans seem to have forgotten what all this fuss was about in the first place."
And every chance George Bush and neocons get they repeat: 9/11 9/11 9/11 - No one has forgotten.
"While complaints about the administration's mistakes in carrying out the war are often justified..."
How many lies can a neocon eat before nausea sets in?
"...hatched in the fevered imagination of Karl Rove."
It's called hatching lies and then lying about the lies.
"Are the attacks on the West the result of support for Israel?"
Did you hear the first video received from Osama bin Laden after 9/11?
"Islamists, as do most Muslims, deeply resent the ability of a despised minority like the Jews"
When I hear a resident of Israel state: We can never forgive the Palestinians for making us kill their children, who is the despiser?
"...Arab attacks directed at Israel in lists of international terror incidents attempts to create a false dichotomy between the American and British or Spanish blood shed....But those murdered on Israeli buses are just as innocent as those slain in London."
As also innocent are the bodies bulldozed and bombed in Palestine and Iraq.
"Is there a link between the rise of international anti-Semitism and the upsurge in fundamentalist Islamic terror?
Yes - anti-Semitism, which includes Arabs and Jews (as they are all Semites) is rising - we want you cousins to figure out how to do unto your neighbors as you would have them do unto you.
"Can the spread of democracy in the Middle East have an effect on the war against the Islamists?"
To say 'Islamists' without saying 'extremists' is to make a bloody racist statement.
"Skeptics rightly claim that if Arab countries were democracies rather than autocratic tyrannies..."
Autocratic tyrannies that were put in place or otherwise supported by the US caused...
"...the rage of their subjugated peoples..."
They understand the roots of their long suffering.
"Concessions by Israel or the West will not end the jihadist dream. The transformation of the Arab and Islamic world into one where freedom — rather than fundamentalism — rules may seem like a fantasy."
The jihadist dream being freedom from occupation by Israel and the West.
How many Arab lives does it take to fill a gas tank?
No I am not a hater I am a lover and like a mother to a child here is today's message:
We love you, Arabs and Jews, it is your behavior that is not viable.
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