"Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM" wrote:
> Whereas the US only seeks to roll back Islam in the
> Middle East and install their own system and believes
> as the dominant power in the region, and seeks to do
> this by destroying its enemies.
Depite what many of the religious leaders in the Middle
East claim, Islam does *not* equal dictatorship,
theocracy, or oppression of your own people and anybody
in your country who is different. At most, the Allies
might end up rolling back dictatorships and theocracies
that pervert Islam to their own advantage, but not Islam
itself.
> Unfortunately, Nazism was NOT rooted out -- it still
> existed by the end of the 20th century, and still exists
> today. Only now we call it Neo-Nazism.
Yes, but Nazism *did* change from a movement controlling
large areas of Europe, to a fringe group for
disenfranchised youths.
> Ah yes, economic sanctions. A method Western governments
> love, but also a method that usually only hurts the
> population of a country, not its leaders.
I'm afraid you're right about that. Sanctions have only
managed to make Hussein even more powerful, and his people
even more poor.
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