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Originally posted by UnlikedOne
Uh, No. If they respected strength, then why would all this shit go down w/ Isreal who has w/o a doubt the most powerful army in the middle east? It's not as simple as you would like to make it sound, we are all in the same boat(as westerners), however, the United States is the one that promotes the most non-fundamentalist idea's worldwide. and is also seen as the biggest threat to them(terrorists). Not germany or france.
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Respecting strength does not mean bowing down to it. They still see the Isrealis and the western countries as infidels. But had we not done anything after 9/11, it would have only encouraged them to do more, because it would have shown weakness to them.
I still maintain, that the French have shown only weakness to them. Notice that they tried to hijack a French airline a few days ago. They see the French as easy targets.