Anti-USA feelings?

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Originally posted by Warthog
Thank you Sulm, I hope so too :(

I just got an email from my friend Mac, who's now in California, and will be sent to Bahrain in two weeks. He was only a few months away from turning 30, when he wouldn't be called up to service anymore. Needless to say, he's a bit nervous right now. Fuck, I hope he makes it okay...

oh well, I'm hoping this war doesn't get any bigger. If they have to start up the draft again, I'm in BIG trouble. :mad:

@mono - oh, I'm sure they'll be able to find Bin Laden fairly soon, dead or alive. Of course, that won't be the end of the story, because the end of Osama won't be the end of Islamist extremism, not by a long shot.
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All the best wishes to your mates, too. It's so sad.

The next 1 1/2 years will be decisive for the future of muslim fundamentalism. At its heart, it is a very weak movement. In all the countries where islam fundamentalists have reigned (Algeria, Afghanistan, Iran) its leaders have only shown incompetence and things deteriorated fast. So far Islam fundamentalism has not had one single success in bettering the lives of the people it rules over. And that has weakend it enormously - in Iran islam fundamentalists nominally still hold power, but against the will of the overwhelming number of people. People in Iran have changed a lot since the Ayatollah revolution in the late 70's.

Actually, the number of would-be Jihad warriors at the moment grows in different countries - western oriented dictatorships (or the sorts of democracies which don't really count) like Saudi-Arabia, Yemen, Egypt, Pakistan, Indonesia, Sudan, Nigeria. The most effective way of fighting terrorism would therefore be to look at these countries and help them with their problems. Problem is, all these states are in the "Alliance against Terror", which is a bit of a bitter laugh.
 
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We just call them "fries", lol. Besides, I think they're actually Belgian by origin anyway.

@mono: Excellent point - over here, anyhow, the media keeps talking about how the entire Islamic fundamentalist movement is this wealthy, efficient, unified transglobal network of organized terror. There is no denying that some pieces of it are fairly well organized (like Al-Qaeda,it seems), but on the whole, most of it is a rag-tag bunch. I think it's this image of an evil clandestine organization straight out of James Bond that's preventing most Americans from realizing that it's our persistent military presence more than anything else that's irritating the hell out of these guys.

Helping "terrorist" states overcome their problems is certainly an admirable mission, but too often that has come down to "restructuring by force". Everyone knows who put Saddam in power all those many years ago. And Bush has even said as much - he intends to create a "new Iraqi government" molded in the image of American democracy. It becomes painfully obvious that Bush has never been outside the US more than 2 or 3 times before becoming president...and even those trips were probably south across the border into Tijuana to buy drugs.
 
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