Blitz: You're ranting.
And to avoid confusion, I am not an American, and not particularly fond of this war.
Of course you can find paralells with this and WW2. Arabs have their TV too you said, well, the Germans had Goebbels too. They had their stuff sorted out and were quite convinced about it. Their "information" service also made sure they were up to date with the facts around untill the end of the war, RIGHT???????
Secondly, about your fear about the US stirring up the Mouslims so they pose a threat to other nations, well, I never heard so much (yellow) BS for a long time. Do you really expect the whole world to submit to "possibly aggressive muslims" because somebody dared to offend them??
Want a WW2 paralell? Well, the "unarmed" Germany broke out of its bonds and suddenly had to be accepted as a military power. To ensure "peace", there was a strong movement, i.e. in England fighting to some success to the one sided disarmament of the UK!
When finally the Beast was unleashed with full warfare going on in France, UK troops and RAF squadrons in France had at times quite some problems co-operating with the French because of their fear of enemy counter-action. A famous incident is when French cars and trucks blocked a runway to prevent RAF aircraft to take off,- it could be be anticipated that the Germans would get angry and launch an attack for revenge!
The British took a bold crusade on their hands when declaring war on the German war machine. It may not have been too sensible (for their own possibility of benefit) and it evolved into the largest conflict of human history.
But it was definately inevitable, and I must say that I am glad that they threw the card and got it started rather than waiting until it was their turn to get thrashed and bullied.
The UK and US forces are facing something of the kind today. It won't get any better by ducking your head into the sand.
There is also a big and unmentioned misconception going on, and even while being used as an excuse for a passive situation vs. any country (whatever) who's majority of population is muslims.
There are many kinds of muslims, and most of them are just ordinary and nice people with no special quarrel against me or you.
We must not fall into the trap of equalling muslims with terrorists and Tyrans, - that is just stupid and ignorant generalizing. That is also Saddam's card in the game. He wants to paint things black and white and ignite a holy war between muslims and the rest.
Alternitively, he and his likes are ready to bully anybody submissive enough through the means of terror, i.e. bomb threats, the Jihad question, other muslim uprising, etc, etc.
There has indeed not been much worse around for muslims than self-appointed warlords of the holy-whatever like Saddam trying to catapult an entire culture and religion into war with the rest of the world, while barely being able to feed themselves.
The victims of this whole mess are then perhaps the ordinary muslims, - encircled by people like Saddam and Bin Laden blowing the war-horn, various simpletons regarding them as a constant threat to all humaniry, and then people like you Blitz, looking carefully at them with the label "HANDLE WITH CARE, DO NOT TOUCH".
Bahhhhhhhhhhhh
