Disclaimer: Thread has gone off-topic, I know.
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Originally Posted by Athosblack
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Ancient foe? You're an effing idiot.
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Have to agree - the USA aren't even old enough to have anything ancient
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Plus no country's people in nowadays world are foes. There's just economical and power-related clashes of interest between the ruling classes, and those are sadly doing a good job at agitating the masses, making them *believe* they have enemies in country xy, to rally support for economical sanctions, political isolation and military actions.
The only real enemies of a country's people are usually sitting in that countries very government and - more importantly - in the steering committees of corporate big players.
I contend that - if there was no Islam, we'd be taught different reasons for why the arabs are a "threat" to us - and the arabs would be taught different reasons why they should hate the western world.
Listening to such propaganda is the first step, getting agitated over it the second step towards acting (violently) against the targets of the propaganda. And this third step of acting violently is commonly being referred to as terrorism in today's lingo (or Operation Enduring Freedom, etc. - depending on which side of the fence you sit).
Does anyone really think that it makes a difference to a family if one of them is killed in a terrorist act, or as "collateral damage" during a military intervention?
Would you feel better because *your* kid was killed "accidentally" by armed forces fighting for a "greater good" that you do not have the means/understanding to judge as such?
Thread probably deserves a move to Rants & Flames ^^