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Muser...
...has left it a little late, I think, to reduce her intake of Faux News!
She has already swallowed the party line that most Muslims are radical Muslims, and that radical Muslims simply want to convert every non-Muslim, or kill them.
This is bullshit from the same field as the Iraqi involvement in 9/11 (worryingly, a recent poll of US soldiers in Iraq found that 70%+ STILL believe that one!), and of course the Iraqi WMDs.
Listen, people. When your government is so closely aligned to the oil and arms industries, of course a perpetual war against a tactic (terror) as opposed to a real enemy is going to be a very profitable exercise.
The only way to keep the people on board with this idea is to focus them away from the imperialist agenda (see Project for the New American Century) and the $$$$$$$$$$$$, and keep them in a state of fear.
The best kind of fear to peddle, for propaganda purposes, is the kind where a nebulous, evil enemy could be anywhere, could strike any time, and who want to "destroy our way of life". The fact that this is largely bullshit is irrelevent.
Unfortunately, what we're seeing now is a self-fullfilling prophecy.
America bombed, occupied and starved Mulsim peoples for decades.
Muslim peoples hate America for it, and retaliated.
America seeks to bring them on-side by...bombing them some more!!
AND by supplying ever-more weapons to Israel so Israel can fight America's proxy war.
Just what the world needs to calm things down.
D
posted by
DamonLeigh
on July 27, 2006 at 2:52 AM
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Yeah, Muser has a way with words! 
posted by
Offy
on July 26, 2006 at 9:35 AM
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Corbin, I don't mind at all, in fact I am quite pleased as I have such high
regard for your ideas/opinions! Thank you...
Dear Corbin,
Thank you for your kind comments regarding my personal assessment
of the current world situation. I rarely make forays into the world of politics, but your post of yesterday moved me to make an exception. I have greatly reduced the amount of time I spend reading/watching/listening to the news; I now read your post every day, I watch Brett Hume on The Fox News Channel, and I sometimes listen to the local talk radio station. You may use my comment in any way you wish; I am honored that you have used it here. If you use it as part of a post, please edit a bit better than I did. Thanks.
posted by
muser
on July 26, 2006 at 9:14 AM
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Corbin D. - You're right !! Muser's explanation is one of the best I've seen, too. It's good to repeat it here on comments. Hopefully more will read it!!!
posted by
reasons
on July 26, 2006 at 8:16 AM
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Flightpath....
muser gave one of the best explainations in the comments of a previous post here......
muser...I hope you don't mind............
Corbin, as one who reads Jack Kinsella and Hal Lindsey regularly, I find
the current world situation most interesting. Everything is falling neatly into place in such a way that really does baffle the former ideas modern man held about warfare. Post WWII strategists are having to figure to how to fight a completely new kind of enemy... one that has leaped out of the box of "traditional" warfare. This new kind of enemy has taken some ideas of the VC, and are perfecting guerilla warfare to a new level. Earth's citizens must understand that the wars of old, although terrible, still had an element of fairness, of civility of sorts...played according to "rules" of warfare.
The zealot armies of Islam have no rules but one CONVERT...or...KILL!! Destroy the infidel, (and his culture)...that would be anyone who is not a muslim. It does not matter one iota to this new enemy...invisible enemy, whether you or I or anyone else in the world is a dove or a hawk, a practitioner of religion or an atheist, black, white, yellow or brown is not an issue at all, poor or rich is meaningless...there is only one variable in this universal war in which we find ourselves ...there is , in the world today, a large and growing entity that proclaims itself the
enemy of ANY INDIVIDUAL who is non-muslim! Period. Why is the "civilized world" not grasping this? I think because we are so civilized...because we are taught to "play fair" and follow the rules! Fairness and rules no longer matter, I'm afraid!
The shift has occured...WE ARE LIVING IN THE NEW PARADIGM. By the time we get our collective heads out of the sand, our butts will have been severely kicked! Of course, this is only the humble opinion of a poet who has kept her head out of the clouds long enough to form an opinion of the current world situation...
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on July 26, 2006 at 8:02 AM
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Terrorists don't know the meaning of the rules of war !!
posted by
reasons
on July 26, 2006 at 7:57 AM
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"a one-sided-debate-with-ignorance"
Isn't that what I am having now?
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on July 26, 2006 at 6:40 AM
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Corbin
Me too??? I can't believe we even have to ask the question!!!
posted by
Offy
on July 26, 2006 at 6:37 AM
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Corbin_Dallas,
As long as you accept the definition of opinion as a one-sided-debate-with-ignorance you and I are in agreement! WWII was a long time ago and you people are still trying to spin it for your needs! America lost that "goodwill" a long time ago! Starting with that ass Reagan!
posted by
Glennb
on July 26, 2006 at 6:36 AM
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Hmmmmm?
To burst one's bubble......wouldn't that require a prick?
And I know deep down inside, you're not one........
We're all entitled to our opinions......you, me, hell, even Glenn.
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on July 26, 2006 at 6:30 AM
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Corbin Dallas...
...it must be so nice to have such a simplistic view of the world.
It must also be nice to "know" you're right.
Well, far be it from me to burst your comfy little bubble.
D
posted by
DamonLeigh
on July 26, 2006 at 6:25 AM
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Corbin_Dallas,
Well this must be my answer! More spin! I guess you are suggesting that Jews do "not" have families and friends that they go home to after they "murder" a few thousand Arabs? It is all in the who is telling the story in your book! "Real" facts are just wasting your time!
posted by
Glennb
on July 26, 2006 at 5:50 AM
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