On May 22, 2007, at 8:52 PM, Virgil Bierschwale wrote:
> Do you honestly think it wouldn't have happened.
Yes.
> Maybe we have raised the intensity, but this has been building for
> generations.
This was an unstable region, and we made it far, far worse than it
was. All the crap that al-Qaeda was spewing was just seen as the
rantings of extremists, until we went and proved them correct. So now
instead of being a fringe group, they are seen in the Muslim world as
relevant and prophetic.
Try this for a minute: drop your assumption that the USA is always
the "good guy" by default. Try to imagine someone who sees us, with
all our wealth and power not as a force for good, but as the
schoolyard bully who does whatever he wants. Now look at what we've
done in Iraq, and think about what how this reflects on our position
as the bully.
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