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Manbridge asks a for sure very real yet very hard question.
Part of my answer is I think NO ONE has a real answer.
At the start I was in the "kill'em all let allah sort it out camp.
But if you miss just one breeding pair it won't work.
What I type next I don't mean to sound unamerican because I'm not.
I don't believe in what some choose to call American Exceptionalisim.
We as Americans can only view the world thru American eyes We
see only the good we have done and none of the bad. We see how
good we have it (for now) but don't get it that other, vastly older
cultures just don't see it that way. I point out that when we helped
the mujahadeen chase the russians out. They thought that we would
leave and let them sort their problems out Instead WE installed a leader
of our own choosing. I think it was a mistake for Bush to "declare War"
on ALQueda. I don't mean we shouldn't kill all them, but by "declaring war"
on them gave legitimacy to a bunch of religious nuts. I mean hey they
be so bad ass the mighty US had to declare war on them. Don't forget
after 9/11 most of the world was on our side. Ever wonder why the Iranians
hate us? Look up the first country the CIA overthrew. Again we put a
murdering dictator in power who killed and oppressed his own people
in THEIR EYES with our money and backing. Not a value judgement
just the facts. We still killing Afghanis and those Alqueda nuts were our pals
with the oil, you know, Saudis. All the Taliban did to us was not give
Osama to us when we asked. The Pakistanis kept the taliban in power
so they didn't have to worry about Afghanistan while they kept their
eyes on their real enemy INDIA. Now thanks to us they have 2 enemies,
India and the Taliban. I'm sure that that 2 or 3 Thousand year old culture
can't wait for some of ours, they gonna love honey booboo and Ru Pauls
drag race.
I believe the last time Islam got loose Charles "The Hammer" Martel finally
stopped them in northern France sometime around 1300/1400.
So you could be right!
Again I hope I don't offend with my opinions.
I hope this can stay out of PARF I think the brits are really the cause of
this when they drew the borders of the region after the war and fall of the
Ottoman Empire with no cares about the different peoples and Islamic sects.
OH "wink wink" I think more people voted on American Idol than voted
in real elections. Let us talk about the history of the region for without
understanding that we may in fact have to kill them all. WE consider
that to be genocide and I thought we didn't like that.
I think we can both agree that it won't be solved on an internet forum.
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