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Originally posted by JQ:
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originally posted by Dave the Wonder Boy:

Whomod, as usual your shrill liberal rhetoric does have a thin toehold in fact. But again, it strays far from the facts and jumps to wild conclusions.
Whereas if the Clinton administration had done the same things, you'd be praising their courage and defense of our freedom.

You're welcome to believe whatever you want, unpatriotic as it is. I've spent a considerable portion of this topic laying out my own perspective, obviously falling on deaf ears.

And regarding the Islamic world, I firmly believe it's not a "radical sect" but the whole of Islam itself that is our enemy. As I've pointed out with articles to back it, a majority of Islamic world is hostile to us, and openly praises al Qaida terrorism.
Brutal governments, wars, suicide bombings, poor treatment of women, and other conditions that give pause to foreign investors and internally repress and stall economic growth, are all rooted in Islamic beliefs and culture, that is holding nations of the Islamic world down, and threatening other countries, as their gospel is spread through Islamic fundamentalism and terror (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Iran, Sudan, Pakistan, Chechnya, The Phillipines, Indonesia, etc.)

The more true Muslims are to their beliefs, the more dangerous they are to the rest of the world, and to themselves.
Again, my eternal image of Islam is 9/11/2001. And more so the 90% of the Palestinian population cheering the deaths of 3000 Americans in the West bank and Gaza, rather than the fanatics who flew jets into buildings.
There was a cover story in TIME magazine a few months ago questioning whether Saudi Arabia is our friend or enemy. And discussing the Saudi sect of Islam called Wahabism, and how spread of wahabism through missionaries has brought terrorism to every corner of the Muslim world and beyond, including al Qaida, Chechnya and the Phillipines.
Your arguements are really becoming paranoid, ethnocentric, and hypocritical. It's you who spews rheotoric, propaganda and insults!

Several well-known and reputable sources for my alleged ethnocentrism and paranoia:

Washington Post: "Spreading Saudi fundamentalism in U.S."(discussing the Spread of Wahabism to the United States, through Mosques and Arabs in the U.S. )
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A31402-2003Oct1?language=printer

Venezuela is emerging as a potential hub of terrorism in the Western Hemisphere, providing assistance to Islamic radicals from the Middle East and other terrorists:

U S News: "Terror Close to Home" (discussing Venezuela's harboring of terrorism in our hemisphere, with training camps in Venezuela, providing visas and false identification that allows Muslim terrorists to to travel to other countries, including the United States, ties and travel to Cuba, Colombian terror groups, Syria, Lebanon, and former Saddam Iraq, as well as financial and political support for Arab terrorism among the Muslim minorities in Venezuela, and various other activities dangerous to global stability, and more directly, dangerous to the United States )
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/031006/usnews/6venezuela.htm


An article on the U.S., in its largest military re-structuring since World War II, moving military bases closer to third-world potential hot-zones, in places such as Djibouti, Bulgaria, Rumania, Georgia and Uzbekistan, so the U.S. is able to react more quickly to forseeable crises, more able to gather intelligence, and peacefully becoming involved in benevolent nation-building, and providing a positive aspect of American influence to areas where al Qaida and other Muslim groups have nurtured anti-Americanism:
U S News: "Pax Americana"
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/031006/usnews/6military.htm


What you (and Whomod) try to label as paranoid or right-wing extremist (in the classic liberal style, slandering the opposition with emotional racist/extremist labels), is simply well-documented common sense.