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Boston Marathon Bombing Suspects Motivated By Religion, Say Two U.S. Officials

Quik said:
Nope, US foreign policy is always what motivates and galvanizes terrorist into action against the US.
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Are you aware of the history of the Middle East? How Israel came to be? Which countries "divvied" up the land? England and France played a HUGE role in this.
 
ChrisL said:
So tell me, how is US foreign policy motivating terrorists? Were there no terror attacks before the US engaged in Iraq? What facts are basing your comment on? Or is that just what you think?

And why do you think terrorists also attack people from every other country in the world as well? It's not just Americans you know.

List of terrorist incidents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hmmm. I guess ALL other countries in the world are to blame for terrorism, except for the ones who actually commit the terrorist acts.
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Terrorism of all kinds is everywhere - but we're talking about religious terrorism, here, not Timothy McVeigh.
 
MoSurveyor said:
Terrorism of all kinds is everywhere - but we're talking about religious terrorism, here, not Timothy McVeigh.
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Oh how nice. Avoidance. :roll:

Anyone with even HALF a brain would know that the United States foreign policies is NOT the root cause of terrorism.
 
ChrisL said:
Oh how nice. Avoidance. :roll:

Anyone with even HALF a brain would know that the United States foreign policies is NOT the root cause of terrorism.
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I think it's the root cause of Islamic terrorism in this country. They really don't like us supporting Israel. I'm not saying we're wrong in doing that, I'm just saying that's where a lot of the problems start.
 
MoSurveyor said:
I think it's the root cause of Islamic terrorism in this country. They really don't like us supporting Israel. I'm not saying we're wrong in doing that, I'm just saying that's where a lot of the problems start.
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Yes, well unfortunately Israel is one of our only REAL allies in that part of the world, considering that they are one of the only countries that is run by a relatively sane administration in that part of the world.

I'm not willing to dump one of our KEY and most IMPORTANT allies in that part of the world because of some Islamic extremists. Where would we find another cooperative relationship in that part of the world? Pakistan? Oh great! :roll: They are such GREAT friends to us!

I also think it is INCREDIBLY naive to think that if we dumped Israel that it would make any difference at all.
 
ChrisL said:
Yes, well unfortunately Israel is one of our only REAL allies in that part of the world, considering that they are one of the only countries that is run by a relatively sane administration in that part of the world.

I'm not willing to dump one of our KEY and most IMPORTANT allies in that part of the world because of some Islamic extremists. Where would we find another cooperative relationship in that part of the world? Pakistan? Oh great! :roll: They are such GREAT friends to us!

I also think it is INCREDIBLY naive to think that if we dumped Israel that it would make any difference at all.
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I think it would make a huge difference - that and stop buying oil from certain countries.

But I didn't say I would approve of abandoning Israel because I don't, as I noted above. I would LOVE to quit sending money to the ME for oil, though. We need to quit burning it as fuel.
 
MoSurveyor said:
I think it's the root cause of Islamic terrorism in this country. They really don't like us supporting Israel. I'm not saying we're wrong in doing that, I'm just saying that's where a lot of the problems start.
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do you know what OBJ's original beef stems from. The kingdom of SA refusing his help and appealing to america for assistance during the first golf war. So let's not act as if there is some over arching rational basis to all of this
 
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MoSurveyor said:
Well, that 12.9% adds up to about 2 million barrels per day. You figure out the annual cost of that.

Or you could just ask yourself if you could live without 13% of the traveling you do and 13% of the goods you buy, including food, since it's all shipped using oil.
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Why couldn't we just purchase more from one of those other regions? Or, even better, maybe we could actually drill for some of that here at home! Not only would that help with this problem, but it would also put some more people to work. A win-win situation. :)
 
ChrisL said:
Why couldn't we just purchase more from one of those other regions? Or, even better, maybe we could actually drill for some of that here at home! Not only would that help with this problem, but it would also put some more people to work. A win-win situation. :)
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Why can't we just stop burning oil and start burning more methane or coal, if needed? We've got trillions of tons of both and, at some point, methane my even be economical to produce from water and air.
 
MoSurveyor said:
Why can't we just stop burning oil and start burning more methane or coal, if needed? We've got trillions of tons of both and, at some point, methane my even be economical to produce from water and air.
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I wouldn't know. Sounds like a good idea to me, but I'm sure others would find problems with it. I don't really know enough about different types of fuels and their costs, etc.
 
ChrisL said:
I wouldn't know. Sounds like a good idea to me, but I'm sure others would find problems with it. I don't really know enough about different types of fuels and their costs, etc.
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Mostly, I think it's a matter of inertia - but that's for another section and thread ...
 
Dr. Chuckles said:
do you know what OBJ's original beef stems from. The kingdom of SA refusing his help and appealing to america for assistance during the first golf war. So let's not act as if there is some over arching rational basis to all of this
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They didn't appeal to the US for assistance before the first Gulf war.. Saddam had NO beef with KSA.
 
sharon said:
They didn't appeal to the US for assistance before the first Gulf war.
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I'm not following? I wrote "during the first golf war" to mark the fact that the events in question happened after the invasion of kuwait


Saddam had NO beef with KSA.
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I thought he had grievences towards all the arab kingdoms that abandoned him after his war with Iran?
 
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