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Originally Posted by DieselAddict
I don't know what planet you live on but there is no civilization clash on this one, except in Al-Qaeda's, Bush's and a few of his supporters' brains. Fighting terrorism is all about intelligence gathering, especially infiltrating suspect groups. The alternative is to attack random countries, spend trillions in the process and further fuel the hatred toward us. Intelligence could have prevented 9/11 if some people only read their memos. Remember the Bin Laden determined to strike US memo in August of 2001? Or the knowledge we had about suspected terrorists training in flight schools? And what did Bush do? He was chopping down trees and chasing squirrels at his ranch in Texas.
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This paragraph completly ignores the history of the Crusades, The Ottoman Empire, the rise of Wahhabiism and the last 50 years of US/Middle East relations. Not to mention ignoring the complete gutting of the Intelligence services throughout the 90's and the complete willful ignorance of the Islamic threat that Western Civilisaton has seemed hell bent on pursuing for at least 30 years. That willful ignorance seems alive and well; partially in this country -as the above paragraph and other posts in this thread illustrate - and definitly in Europe. Perhaps France is starting to notice, that remains to be seen though.
03-11-2008, 03:19 PM
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