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Well ZZA as always from you food for thought. However, the people who put the idea of a "1000 virgins" and "eternal joy" or what ever it is into the minds of the people they convince to carry out these attacks, are just as manipulative as any Western leader.
They have taken one the worlds finest religions and twisted it for their own evil ends by pursuing a course of action which will "piss off" the worlds only super power and the American president, (who ever he happens to be), would be forced by American public opinion to retaliate in someway or another.
The settlement at the end of world war 1 was unfair to the German people as whole but the destruction wrought by the German occupation in France justified the draconian measures taken by the victorious allies in the eyes of the people who drew it up. In hindsight it was wrong and probably did contribute to the coming of the second war. It wasn't however the only reason for that second war, we learnt the hard way, that aggression must be stopped and by force if neccessary, unfortunatley we learnt that lesson to late and as a result some 60 million souls died world wide.
Had we not taken a very tough stance against Soviet communism from the end of the second world war, then Stalin would have taken Western Europe, or at the very least dominated it, if we were not prepared to threaten mutually assured destruction. That "posture" prevented a third world war and undoubtably, Stalin would have attacked if he thought the United States was not prepared to guarantee our freedom by stationing their forces in Western Europe.
The "opressed" people in the Middle East, and by "opressed" I assume you mean the Palestinians? Well that is a problem we have yet to resolve, Israel is cought between a rock and a hard place, the only working democracy in the Mid East is torn between it's need for security and the settlement of a Palenstinian home land. How this will be resolved is beyond me but we can live in the hope that a solution can be found.
As for President Bush and the I.Q. of an ape? Well a lot of people voted for him, what does that say about their intelligence? For that matter in my career and in my life, I've come across some brilliant people with high I.Q.'s but not one shred of common sense. He IS for better or worse, the President of the United States and as such we have to accept and deal with that!
Regards
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