Originally posted by Nilsen
If you had any clue what so ever about the world you would understand that a country with the population we have could never stand up against and prevent an invasion form a country like germany.
Sooo...folowing this logic, when Israel fought for it's own state after ww2, it had no chance of winning due to the population diff.? I could be thinkin' wrong here, but didn't roughly 600,000 jewish setlers take on countries with a combined population of 50,000,000 ish? Don't agree w/ you at all on this point.
And re. the Turk topic, I found it interesting that they went after muslims. Wouldn't that be pooping where you eat a bit? One would think that killing other muslims would LOSE them sympathy with the more moderate Islamic types. They are either getting dumber, or desperate. The harder we go after the terrorist leaders, and we are successful in killing or arresting them off,the stupider the guys in charge will become. Simple attrition. Just a matter of time until these guys are a blurb in a history book.
ALSO, most opinion polls show the avgerage Iraqi happy with their new govt. Why would you give more wieght to the opinion of a few radical muslim fundamentalists, than the vast majority of Iraqi's? Because one ouf of every (let's say) 1,000 Iraqi's want what these nutjob terrorists want, we should NOT try and improve the life of the other 999? The vast majority of muslims in the world do not want to chop off everybodys heads. You are allowing policy to be dictated by .1% of the people. (i feel i'm being generous here. it's prob. closer to .001%) We need to try and quit giving the terrorists so much attention. It makes them feel important, and gives them a bloated sense of power.
Basically, we have to hunt them down and arrest them. It will take many years to get up to speed (and mucho dinero) but eventualy we (the world, the U.S., whatever) will handle this threat. But we need to quit giving so much power to what such a small, pathetic groups of idiots are doing.
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