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Originally Posted by ARTelevision
For me, the problem with the analysis referenced in the thread starter is that it doesn't delve deeply enough into the root causes. The links provided by others do help some in this regard.
In brief, it seems clear to me that the lack of even-handedness the U.S has exercised for more than 50 years in foreign policy - as regards Arab/Israeli issues - is at the bottom of this now deeply-rooted problem.
I've always thought that the egregiously obvious favoritism we have shown toward Israel results in pan-Arab resentment toward us and promotes a continuing distrust of our motives. It needs to be corrected.
I think it's possible for the US to play the decisive role it must play as the global superpower only if we are willing and able to include more of the Islamic perspective into our worldview. We have erred on the side of Israeli intransigence too much to be a fair witness in the Middle East. A paradigm shift is long overdue.
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Art you can not have forgotten the cold war already? Islamic dictatorships armed and assisted by the USSR vrs the one democratic state in all of the mideast, Israel. This has had more to do with our Israeli policy then anything else. Even after the USSR collapsed, the same anti-Israeli leaders and terrorists remain.
If anyone wants to find someone to blame for the mideast turmoil, you don’t have to look much farther then the Kremlin.