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Originally Posted by DJ Happy
What I meant was that I was unable to distinguish between the US and Al Qaeda based on this description: "They want the world converted to their ideology. They want to control through fear and intimidation. They can not be negotiated with. We have been under attack for over a decade. We have tried reolutions, they have failed."
Islamic extremists don't really care what your women do, they don't care that you vote, they don't care that you buy their oil (in fact, they love it), they don't care that your movies are against what they believe in, they don't care about your system of justice, they don't care about you "not torturing criminals" (of course, the US just tortures those who haven't been proven to be criminals yet) but they do care that your ideologies are being forced upon them and that you have influence over their countries.
It's very important that you understand this. They couldn't care less about the way you live, as long as you don't try to make them live the same way. And that's where the problem lies.
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The American culture is not being forced on the world, people of the world like it and want it. People like the ability to have freedom of choice and to be able to go as far as their talents will take them. Islamic extremist don't want people in Islamic countries to freely choose their lots in life. They blame the fact that their own people want certain freedoms on the US. That is why they have declared a holy war against this country.
When a guy like Saddam wants to and has invaded neighboring countries, murders hundreds of thousands of his own people, uses chemical weapons, wants to develop nuclear weapons and would use them, I guess the thinking of the United Nations and most Democrats in this country is to do nothing.
If you leave him alone, he won't bother the US?