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Originally Posted by Dragonlich
- support for Israel is mainly because it's Arab neighbours want to destroy it. In other words: they're angry they're too weak to exterminate the Jews there.
- US troops were *invited* to come, after Iraq threatened to attack SA. Most troops are now gone from SA, and are in Iraq instead. As long as Iraq's neighbors don't want to send any troops themselves, they should STFU.
- support for any regime that is relatively friendly to the US, given the oil in the area. If a democratic, US-friendly oil-rich country were to excist in the middle-east, they'd support that. Again, they're blaming the US for their own problems.
I'd say the essence of the Arabs' hatred is that they're weak, and they want to become powerful, just like the west. However, instead of actually building up their power (like most of Asia did), they're more interested in destroying the west, to drag them down to their level.
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- When I talk about "support," I don't mean giving them shitloads of cash - I mean supporting them in the international stage to the extent that they pretty much have global carte blanche, allowing for no admonition or accountability.
- US troops were invited by a regime that the fundmentalists consider their enemy as well. I don't think you'll appease them on that front by saying, "It's okay, King Fahd asked them to be there." They hate both of them.
- I don't quite get what you're saying in your last point. My point is that the fundamentalists consider the Saudi ruling family an enemy as they have sold out Islam by inviting infidel troops to set up base on Islamic soil, and are also eroding Islamic values through their ruling of the country. The fact that the US supports these regimes is another source of hatred for the fundamentalists.
Your last point seems to veer off on a tangent though. Why do you refer to all Arabs as hating the US, implying that the terrorists are actually Arab governments? You make it sound as though the whole of the Arab world sits around fantasising about the destruction of the US. That is just not the case and I think you know it.