Originally Posted by jaje
but Iran is not run by a tyrant...the population hates america as a common belief and is one of the main reasons why a hard liner was elected
there's only one way to get rid of islamic terrorists...and that is not invading countries and setting up governments that will be tainted no matter the progress
it's the american way to think we are the world's savior (as in God and Christianity) and police force...what we don't realize is our involvement often makes them resent more and they terrorize us to make their point...we also don't understand that if we align God with America it makes them hate us even more and makes cause for a Holy War
What defines a tyrant to you? Anyone that denies the holocaust and open talks about the destruction of the Jewish state and Jews in general sure sounds like a tyrant to me.
Islamic terrorism has long been around and was previously (prior to 9/11) considered a law enforcement activity. That obviously did not work so now we are trying a new approach, and to me, has so far worked pretty well.
No matter what we do, short of converting everyone to Islam, we will be hated and considered infidels to terrorists and Islamic extremists. If we were a completely secular society they would hate us for not having faith in God, if we were a 100% Christian nation they would hate us for worshipping Gold differently, but they also hate us for our religous tollerance, tollerance of alternative lifestyles, equal treatment of women, etc.
If you look at the US we have fringe wacko groups on both sides...yet most are not militant in their extremism. Sure we have the ELF on the left and McVeigh on the right but those are more isloated incidents and not part of a larger movement. Islamic radicals are never going to come to a table and negotiate a peace, they never have and never will. Law enforcement and placating them in the past has not work...maybe killing every last one of them and pacifying the rest will.