(September 18, 2009 at 1:17 pm)dry land fish Wrote: First problem is that some of you again aren't Americans so you are playing off the attacks on American soil because it didn't happen to your country. As if we should just forgive them or something. I don't know what's up with that.
I'm sure there have been terrorist attacks in London, Glasgow and Madrid over the past decade too. Perhaps not on as scale as large as those on 11/09/01 in New York, but we ALL know that our freedoms are being threatened by muslim extremists. You needn't live in the USA to understand this. Now, even if I lived around the north pole, I still think I'd be qualified to say: "just because SOME muslims attacked your country, this does not mean that you should kill, maim or detain all muslims on planet earth, particularly those living in Islamic countries".
You may just be talking about a small subgroup of muslims (mega-extremists), and if so I apologise for being off the mark. You do appear to be making a gross over-generalisation though. The subject of foreign policy with regards to Islamic countries is one which I struggle to rationalise myself sometimes. I do however believe that it's slightly less than helpful to be sending soldiers into a war they cannot win.