An Abridged Middle eastern opinion
As the punk rock band THE RAMONES once coined a song, "Road to Ruin," it appears as though the non punk rocker George Bush, [yet a moronic punk in another way] has this scenereo called "The Road Map To Peace." The problem is that with many U.S. troops still stationed in the Iraqi desert, it appears that the Muslim world is so angry at Bush's foreign policy, that a certain amount of people are going to make sure that this new plan is not going to work.
Lets rewind back a few years to the year 1936. Standard Oil of California discovered Saudi Arabia's petroleum in this Middle-Eastern Country. As a result, the Western world has very obviously taken a profound interest in this "black gold."
In the same year, Palestinians conducted a major revolt against the British owning this land. This was not the first time Palestineans revolted against the British as they had taken other actions in the late 1800's and early 1900's.
Oil and other petroleum products is the major U.S. interest in this region until September 11, 2001. After this date, the United States shifted its policy towards supporting nations fighting "The War On Terror" while punishing other nations for outright supporting these thugs, as the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Again rewinding history a few years, many drastic events takeplace in the Middle-East. The Founding of the State of Israel, many Israeli-Arab Wars, so called "peace treaties," and a few United States "interventions." As a result, a large group of peopleof Middle-Eastern descent have been angered by these U.S. actions.
Eventually, a very small, yet extremely vocal minority of Middle-Easterners have been led down the path of terrorism. Various Al-Qaeda cells have been formed in responce to U.S. foregn policy expansion in the Middle-East. The inexcusable acts of terror have been commited against the United States because of their policy.
Despite this flawed foreign policy, it would be irresponsible not to defend the homeland. All the 9-11 occurences need to be checked upon, investigated, and have an effective action implimented. Otherwise, we are inviting people to walk all over what is left of our remaining freedoms.
In the meantime, President Bush ought to re-examine his foreign policy. The war in Iraq will be a cake walk in comparison to keeping the peace in the entire Middle-East. The United States and Britain are unilaterally dictating this entire region, telling other countries how to dictate policies within these countries borders.
Telling countries what kind of government is acceptable, threatining other countries while not even attempting diplomicy is only a few of the few faults of the Bush Policy. In fact, I would not be surprised if a Shite Muslim Regime ends up ruling Iraq.
Asides from toning down heated rheteric, especially against Syria and Iraq, moving troops out of Iraq [who I beleive is not connected to Al-Qaeda due to Iraq being a secular state and Al-Qaeda being fundamentalist Muslim] and into areas of Al-Qaeda activity ought to be considered. Send the remainder of the troops to U.S. shores. At least these steps should be a basic start in effectively keeping terrorism out of the United States.
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Lets rewind back a few years to the year 1936. Standard Oil of California discovered Saudi Arabia's petroleum in this Middle-Eastern Country. As a result, the Western world has very obviously taken a profound interest in this "black gold."
In the same year, Palestinians conducted a major revolt against the British owning this land. This was not the first time Palestineans revolted against the British as they had taken other actions in the late 1800's and early 1900's.
Oil and other petroleum products is the major U.S. interest in this region until September 11, 2001. After this date, the United States shifted its policy towards supporting nations fighting "The War On Terror" while punishing other nations for outright supporting these thugs, as the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Again rewinding history a few years, many drastic events takeplace in the Middle-East. The Founding of the State of Israel, many Israeli-Arab Wars, so called "peace treaties," and a few United States "interventions." As a result, a large group of peopleof Middle-Eastern descent have been angered by these U.S. actions.
Eventually, a very small, yet extremely vocal minority of Middle-Easterners have been led down the path of terrorism. Various Al-Qaeda cells have been formed in responce to U.S. foregn policy expansion in the Middle-East. The inexcusable acts of terror have been commited against the United States because of their policy.
Despite this flawed foreign policy, it would be irresponsible not to defend the homeland. All the 9-11 occurences need to be checked upon, investigated, and have an effective action implimented. Otherwise, we are inviting people to walk all over what is left of our remaining freedoms.
In the meantime, President Bush ought to re-examine his foreign policy. The war in Iraq will be a cake walk in comparison to keeping the peace in the entire Middle-East. The United States and Britain are unilaterally dictating this entire region, telling other countries how to dictate policies within these countries borders.
Telling countries what kind of government is acceptable, threatining other countries while not even attempting diplomicy is only a few of the few faults of the Bush Policy. In fact, I would not be surprised if a Shite Muslim Regime ends up ruling Iraq.
Asides from toning down heated rheteric, especially against Syria and Iraq, moving troops out of Iraq [who I beleive is not connected to Al-Qaeda due to Iraq being a secular state and Al-Qaeda being fundamentalist Muslim] and into areas of Al-Qaeda activity ought to be considered. Send the remainder of the troops to U.S. shores. At least these steps should be a basic start in effectively keeping terrorism out of the United States.
http://www.angelfire.com/mo3/newsjunkie/libertarian.html
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