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Please look at poll. Try to just pick major problems.
JM
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41Bush (short, easy answer)4.88%2Problems? What problems..0.00%0Europe/The West (been screwing over MidEast for a long time)21.95%9Israel (Existing/behavior towards the West Bank/Gaza)9.76%4Corporations (It is all about the Oil)2.44%1American Imperalism (It is all about American power)0.00%0America (It's culture/it's materialism/etc)0.00%0Fundamentalist Christians (Trying to bring about the apocalypse)2.44%1Fundamentalist Muslims (They attacked us..)7.32%3Muslims (Backwards religion?)12.20%5Religion (It's at fault, should just be done away with)19.51%8Arabs (their culture is messed up..)17.07%7China (? please supply your theory/burb ?)0.00%0Other (please post)2.44%1Jon Miller-
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Re: Whose at fault for the MidEast
Overall??Originally posted by Jon Miller
Please look at poll. Try to just pick major problems.
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Tough to pick -- The Mid-east has been screwed up from before the US was the dominant power so I think its tough to blame them. ( I can blame them for the current situation in Iraq but I hope they anticipated the current situation since it was pretty predictable.
Western Imperialism and the arbitrary nation-state lines drawn by the British are a factor -- with influences from Arab leadersm jockeying for personal power. . . But tribalism and culture are a big factor as well. I don't know if changing the religion would have made a big difference in a land where it sometimes seems that serfdom still exists.
You can also blame the palestinian leaders for fostering an environment where the population fled out of Israel and all the other nations for failing to accept these people and integrate them, preferring instead to maintain the camps with anger and hatred toward Israel.You don't get to 300 losses without being a pretty exceptional goaltender.-- Ben Kenobi speaking of Roberto Luongo -
In short, nearly all of the above.
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Originally posted by Arrian
In short, nearly all of the above.
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Possibly but I don't much blame corporations. Most of Mid-east development now is run by the Arab country's own petroleum companies and petroleum development provides money that could lift most of their people out of poverty.You don't get to 300 losses without being a pretty exceptional goaltender.-- Ben Kenobi speaking of Roberto LuongoComment
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Mainly the Arabs.
If they'd just leave Israel alone, things would look a lot brighter for everyone.Comment
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Yup its tough to get anywhere when most Arab nations still have a starting point that denies Israel the right to exist.Originally posted by Winston
Mainly the Arabs.
If they'd just leave Israel alone, things would look a lot brighter for everyone.
Err HELLLLLOOOOO-- Israel is not going anywhere and they have repeatedly shown a willingness to fight to maintain themselves. denying thios reality might be good local politics but its lousy foreign policyYou don't get to 300 losses without being a pretty exceptional goaltender.-- Ben Kenobi speaking of Roberto LuongoComment
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I blame Eurasia and Africa.Comment
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For the current situation in the Middle East, overall? The fault lies within Islam, the perverse religion of superstition, regression and legitimised inequality.
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It's the joos!
I mean, they started it all, like 6000 years ago or something.
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Originally posted by Arrian
In short, nearly all of the above.
-Arrian
If there was only one cause to the ME problem, we would have fixed it by now.meet the new boss, same as the old bossComment
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Israel... or, I guess, rather Europe's putting the Jewish state there.“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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humanity (is at fault)
To us, it is the BEAST.Comment
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I don't think Fundamentalist Muslim or Christian is correct.
If a choice were RADICAL Muslim, I'd cast a vote.
Not like a new situation, and it's not Israel. They take turns kicking each other's ass.Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
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Clearly, it's the Rosbifs' fault
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