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Originally posted by cosmoknight
Aren't we already there with their anti western bias? Remember its not what you did its who you are that they hate.
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I don't agree with this. The situation might be bad and going to wrong direction - but it doesn't mean it couldn't be even worse. The fundamentalists might hate the west just because "we" are infidels, but I don't really believe this means that ordinary (and maybe uneducated & poor) islamic people don't care what the west does or doesn't do.
I think that this "what do we care?"-attitude relates to the feeling that the west (or usually just the USA) could just "kick their asses, no matter how many of them came." The truth is that no army is invincible - and even in the most militaristic dreams it would be impossible for the west to occupy and pacify the whole islam world. Now I'll just wait someone to mention the nuclear weapons...
Anyway - if we assess this scenario (to answer beheadings with brutality and desecrations) coldly and cynically, it is rather clear that the government knows that possible benefits (terrorists scared and fleeing) are dwarfed by the negative consequences.