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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?  


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Bill Arnette
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