The War on Terrorism is a Farce!

[TCO]

Imran, I can't beleive you compare yourself to MLK. He risked his life and eventually gave it for his cause.

You don't have the guts to tell your parents about your non-Muslim g/f.

Posting threads on Apolyton is not an act of courage, big guy.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Ugh.... asking poor college students to spend time looking up things.

Ramo... can you do it?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Imran, I can't beleive you compare yourself to MLK.

Hey... look, some words by GP in my mouth... how did they get in there

I used him as an example of patriots being those that critique injustice in the US.

Of course, you've never met an ad hominem attack you didn't make.

[TCO]

Oh spare me the hish school debate terms. Just grow some b...juevos.

[Sirotnikov]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
You mean when we bombed Sudan, because they were involved in terrorism and ended up hitting a medical plant?

That was a mistaken indentity, not an error of judgement.

You thought you were hitting a chemical plant, no?

A lot of times we aren't doing things for the right thing, but for the political thing.

This is unrelated to your previous example.
Hitting a chemical plant is the right thing.

I sincerely doubt that Clinton bombed Sudan just to get political score, and randomly picked a medical plant of all things.

[Sirotnikov]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
He has in the past... the media just doesn't like to put it on Page 1.

I guess palestinians don't like putting it on page 1 either....

Maybe that suggests that he isn't doing it.

[Sirotnikov]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Siro... are terrorists to be locked up for life? Maybe their term was up. The fact is that Arafat CANNOT stop Hamas or Islamic Jihad. The US can easily withdraw support of a dictator... like Saddam when he took Kuwait.

Sure, every terrorist on the god damned planet suddenly finished their term in October 2000. following that, they immediately started attacking Israel again, as they promised to do.

Releasing them had one goal in mind - fueling a huge wave of terror.

Arafat can stop Hamas and IJ. He did a great job shooting them when they were in conflict, when they threatened his authority several months ago.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I sincerely doubt that Clinton bombed Sudan just to get political score

You don't know Clinton very well.

Arafat can stop Hamas and IJ. He did a great job shooting them when they were in conflict, when they threatened his authority several months ago.

Oh sure... and when he attempts to put them down, he is blamed for being a tyrant. And, of course, Hamas and IJ will always come back and in full force.

[Gatekeeper]

You don't know Clinton very well.

And *you* do, Imran? Sorry, but there was more to Clinton's foreign policy than "Wag the Dog."

Regarding U.S. actions taken in the Cold War, I always find it absolutley *fascinating* how so many people demonize Americans 100 percent w/o ever considering the "why" of a situation or the circumstances — namely, the Cold War and the Soviet Union. It's as if their heads are in a vaccuum of some sort. I know time can make memories fuzzy and whatnot, but the Soviet Union was a very real threat in the years and decades after World War II. It doesn't always excuse us for what we did in response to the Soviet Union, but it does put some things in context.

Who knows? If the Cold War had never developed, a whole 'nother timeline might have developed. One w/o the crises of the Cold War, of course.

Gatekeeper

[Imran Siddiqui]

And *you* do, Imran? Sorry, but there was more to Clinton's foreign policy than "Wag the Dog."

Name it. Clinton HAD no foriegn policy and most of what he did in the world was 'Wag the Dog'. Diversionary Tactics were his speciality.

[Sprayber]

I can't belive I wasted my precious internet time reading this thread.

If you support Araffat, you have defined the word hyprocrite. Of course that goes for those that support some of the intensly stupid things that Sharon has done. As for other "terrorist". We should eliminate those who pose a threat and leave the others unless we have evidence that says they pose a threat to us or out allies. If that means killing those that call themselves muslims or any other religion, then so be it.

Stop playing favorites Imran, its beneath you.

[Sava]

I don't think the argument "because we did bad things in the past means we can't try and make the world a better place" doesn't work.

Yeah, we have our own problems in the US. And we've created some problems. But that doesn't excuse thousands of "Osama's" and "Mohammed's" running around killing innocent people.

I don't feel any sympathy for a sub-culture that rewards people for killing innocents.

PS. If these terrorists are only a minority, as many Arab-Americans tell me, why don't the peace loving people in the region give them up?

I love rhetorical questions.

Answer: Most Palestinians want Israel to be annihilated.

[DarkCloud]

Originally posted by Kyle



Neither has asked for our help.

Actually, I think that India asked.
The United States then told them to "sit tight"

etc.

[Kyle]

Originally posted by DarkCloud


Actually, I think that India asked.
The United States then told them to "sit tight"

etc.

India has never asked for US military involvment in Kashmir. They have close to 1 million troops there already.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by DarkCloud
Actually, I think that India asked.
The United States then told them to "sit tight"

We'll never help them. They aren't a part of the rhetoric. After all, which American cares about terrorists in India? Proof that this is a political crusade, and not a moral one.