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Showing Original Post only (View all)You know what would probably be really effective at combating Islamic fundamentalism? [View all]
Leaving the Middle-East. Seriously, the U.S. needs to leave, they need to close the bases, get off Islamic holy sites, quit bombing innocent people, quit using drone strikes and I'm willing to bet that would decrease terrorism a lot more over the long term than bombing them. The anti-Islamic film was just the spark that lit the fuse, but the fuse was prepared by the U.S. occupation of the Middle-East. They don't want us there, and who can blame them? We are killing their families. Oh and as an aside I am really sick of this anti-Muslim sentiment I've seen here over the past few days, it isn't the majority I'm sure, but damn is it getting annoying.
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You know what would probably be really effective at combating Islamic fundamentalism? [View all]
white_wolf
Sep 2012
OP
I do not know, but where does the oil come to make things? Not just gas, but all the plastic
uppityperson
Sep 2012
#71
I don't see them using nuclear weapons. I think MAD would be enough to deter them.
white_wolf
Sep 2012
#5
Somehow I doubt the various leaders of Middle-Eastern nations share that enthusiasm.
white_wolf
Sep 2012
#11
People love any reason to stop thinking so they join groups to fill up their heads with non-think.
freshwest
Sep 2012
#24
Do you actually think they would have cared about a movie if they weren't being bombed?
white_wolf
Sep 2012
#15
They're rioting in Kuwait, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Mali and other places that we've never been
riderinthestorm
Sep 2012
#57
Sure maybe we should have just asked Germany to hand over Hitler to Switzerland.
former9thward
Sep 2012
#39
"Good luck finding some "impartial party". That is a real joke. Sorry but none exists."
Ghost in the Machine
Sep 2012
#44
2004? Really?? Your "defending OBL" comment is laughable, as are your debating skills..
Ghost in the Machine
Sep 2012
#54
You spend this whole sub-thread complaining about lack of due process for OBL
former9thward
Sep 2012
#55
No, actually it was about disproving your false assertion that the offer to turn him over wasn't
Ghost in the Machine
Sep 2012
#58
No, it comes down to the fact that I prefer a little tact and diplomacy first...
Ghost in the Machine
Sep 2012
#80
Bush's wars had nothing to do with bin Laden. and everything to do with earning billions of dollars
robinlynne
Sep 2012
#78
Yes. We called it Manifest Destiny against the "savages" on our own continent. On theirs,
cr8tvlde
Sep 2012
#41
There was the one that U.S. forces destroyed in the early part of the Iraq War
Lydia Leftcoast
Sep 2012
#63