OT: World in shock
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Originally posted by FX:
exactly right, crusader, once we are knee deep in this, it will be too late to change our minds, and we may never know what was the right thing to do…let us hope not only that there is a higher power, but that that power will finally show us clearly what is the right path to follow….fx
I think, to be honest, we all feared this day would happen, not only because of the loss of life, but also because of actions that will now be taken that are beyond our control.
The polls are showing a huge swing towards retaliation, but polls do not tell the full story.
I think it’s safe to say that we all want the terrorists to pay, but we all have reservations on how this will be acheived.
Many say, it will be foolhardy to pursue a minority that would be difficult to isolate, and they are correct.
But, this was going to happen sooner or later, and the countries of the world have been living on borrowed time, so now only two choices remain…sit tight and do nothing like Bill Clinton did, and hope that no more attacks will occur, or go after the people responsible.
I think you would have to be very naive to believe that doing nothing will mean that another would not happen, and while we sit and do nothing, we all live in fear of the next attack.
The US has it’s back against the wall in terms of not doing anything, as there is always the danger of losing the faith and trust the world has shown after this tradegy.
Many questioned why we did not finish Saddam off, and as a result, many of the supporters of NATO and the US began to drift away from their support.
Also, the middle east’s feeling towards America will not change.
Fact is, is that their leaders have exploited a weak people who feel that they do not have much to live for, and their only passion and interest in life is religion…simply because they don’t have anything else.
These people are deprived of modern luxuries, and are jealous of the USA, being that compared to them the American people live like kings, while they remain poor.
In some fashion, it reminds of a state of affairs in this country, the majority hate Manchester United football team because of their success and wealth, and the hatred is formed from jealousy.
Obviously, the middle east goes to a higher scale, they call us infidels, because they believe they are a more worthy people than any other in the world, and that it is not right that we live the way we do, they feel that they deserve the spoils as they think they are better, kind of like the Germans and the Aryan race.
They also believe that their religion should be the dominant religion, and that no other should be allowed to be practised.
For instance, they will lock up anyone practising christianity in their country’s, while we do not deprive worshippers of Islam their right to practise their religion.
Essentially, we are dealing with the same threat that Germany posed to the world with it’s ideals, the Arab religions feel that God has made them the chosen, and that they will always have God protecting them.
So now, we have many different versions of Hitler spread throughout the middle east, all sending the same message, that they are God’s children and deserve to have what they want by design.
This is my view of the situation, and I know many Americans don’t understand why they do it.
They will always dodge the issue when faced with reality, the reality is know they will be confronted by the world, and so will back down, but the opinion of them being the true race, will remain.
After many year’s of oppression, I am not surprised they feel this way, they think they have survived due to the mercy of God, and this has deluded them into believing that God has in fact protected them.
Their own religion has given them a false dawn, one that can never be realised, but it is too late for them too accept otherwise.
The seeds have been sown in their minds, and now that seed is beyond being removed, as it has become who they are, and feel that this is what they need to do.
Remember, that those hijackers believed that God had reserved a special place for them in his kingdom, and no one would be able to tell them different.
So we are faced with what has become a cult, brainwashed into believing they are more than they are for many, many years.
If you look back, that cult could have started with Iran, and has filtered to other regions, only affecting Arabs, as the person who started it aimed his ideals at the Arab nation, hence why Saddam was happy to kill kurds, as he believed that did not fit in to the Arabic Gods’ plan, and were not worthy of being allowed to live.
Like I said, we all at some stage feel jealousy, and at one point it existed in the UK, there was a huge dislike of America.
However, the governments in countries that are civilised played down this jealousy until it was eradicated, unfortunately, the opposite has happened in the middle east, their leaders have played on this basic human emotion, and now the Arab people are puppets to be used by dictators and terrorists.
Squishy