Quote Originally Posted by Lyle View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing View Post
People in the Middle East tend to get the other end of the superior firepower rather than the freedom and liberty thing though.
...perhaps they should change their tune, you know, kill us with kindness instead of just trying to kill us.
Maybe if Americans didn't wet the bed over things like Saddam and his fearsome weapons of mass destruction and their government go off and kill a million Iraqis then Middle Eastern people would feel less inclined to fly planes into buildings. They've had fifty years of miserable repression at the hands of the US, maybe if they hadn't had that it's unlikely that they'd be so upset. If North Carolina had been transported into Jordan, for instance, one of the nastiest secret police states over there and one whose regime is propped up by US military/security/diplomatic aid for half a century now, but we change "US" to say Iranian or Pakistani, how would you feel if your rulers were doing the exact opposite of what you wanted at the behest and control of the Iranians/Pakistanis?