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On Mon, 24 Sep 2001 03:04:38 GMT, Bill Arnette <cessna048@hotmail.com> wrote:
>beroset@mindspring.com (Ed Beroset) wrote in
>news:3bac0751.10636263@news.mindspring.com: 
>
>> Dweezil Dwarftosser <f4wcs@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>Todd Morman wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Anyone who fails to see that there are reasonable grounds for many in
>>>> the Arab world to feel rage at the United States is a fool. 
>>>
>>>Oh?  I fail to see any reasonable grounds for "many" Arabs to feel rage
>>>at the US.  Please enlighten me.  We've done _nothing_ to justify such
>>>an emotion. 
>> 
>> FWIW, I think that's part of the problem.  If I were to personally
>> piss people off to the degree that they want me dead, I'd like to
>> think that I'm at least clued in enough to know that, and might even
>> be able to figure out why they're so enraged. That wouldn't
>> necessarily mean I'd think they're right, but it seems to me that
>> normal instincts for self-preservation require awareness of the
>> reactions of others to one's actions.
>> 
>> Anyhow, here's a short list of why some in the Middle East might be
>> enraged at the US:
>> 
>> 1.  US foreign policy in that region tends to be oppportunistic and
>> fickle.
>> 
>> An example of this is how the US funded Afghan Islamic fundamentalists
>> while they were fighting against the Soviet Union, but discarded them
>> in 1991 when the last Soviet troops withdrew.  Did you know that the
>> US contributed about $20 billion to the Afghans during that time?
>> Guess who was among them at that time?
>
>Are we supposed to continue funding them indefinitely?  

Not if we can wean ourselves from Middle Eastern Oil.

-- 
Wes Dukes