Posted on 05/30/2005 4:49:03 PM PDT by Cornpone
You don't have to look nearly that far back to find evidence of Muslim atrocities. Sept. 11, 2001 will suffice.
This article couldn't be stightly biased could it? Not from Al Jezeera, the most honest and forthright news organization on the planet?
Sandy needs to ask a more pertinent question.
The question should be: "Why don't they give a rat's behind?"
"Once again, history becomes a casualty. Never in the history of mankind has democracy flourished at the point of a gun."
1. Germany.
2. Japan.
"Sandy Shanks" sounds like a good candidate for one of Jay Leno's "Jaywalking" segments.
They hate us because they hate Jesus. These deluded sad souls live a life of hatred, much like the hatred spawn of many of the liberal idealogies. They, the Fundamental Islamists wish the Christians and the Jews to be dead, and are fed lies of Hatred from a young age. Christianity and Judiaism are about love and I wish the Light to come to the Middle east and lay aside the great lier that pretends to be the prophet of God.
>> You will starve to death if you are not able to sell your oil!<<
With all due respect to both you and Friedman, crude oil is fungible. This simple truth means that any oil pumped by the Saudis competes in the world market for price and availablity. To cut off their funding, their oil wells must be plugged. Anything less and they get money for oil.
This fact is ignored by advocates in the US of "reducing dependency on foreign oil". Either those advocates are ignorant or they have another agenda. I suspect a little of both because their plans always seem to include higher taxes and reduced liberty.
Indeed, an editorial in the recent National Review, "Alternative-Fuel Nonsense", outlines plans by a group called Set America Free to help US drivers conserve by setting the price of gasoline at $4.00/gallon.
And just who will get the use of this Social Security-like river of tax revenue to use on their own pet projects was not made clear.
(ref: http://www.nationalreview.com/nrof_comment/reynolds200505270855.asp)
From the editorial:
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But the process of replacing older vehicles with ethanol-fueled plug-in hybrids would move with glacial slowness, and would not shrink global oil demand enough to collapse oil prices. That is why Friedman proposes to further decrease demand by raising U.S. taxes high enough to keep gasoline above $4 a gallon regardless of the price of crude. In practice, this would simply mean that we would pay much more for gasoline so other nations could pay less.
Even if world oil did fall back to $18 a barrel, as Friedman would like, there would be no incentive for Asia or Europe to economize on oil use at all, nor for anyone to supply or demand expensive alternatives. Besides, the price of oil was below $18 nearly all the time from February 1986 to June 1999 — falling as low as $11 at the end of 1998 and remaining below $20 through the end of 2001. Yet cheap oil did nothing to promote economic or political liberty in Algeria, Iran, or anywhere else. This theory has been tested — and it failed completely.
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And the theory that changing oil purchases from states sponsoring radical Islamists will change their interest in funding their jihad against the infidel has been equally tested and is an equal failure.
If the US did not import a drop of oil from any source, does anyone rationally believe that the Islamists will stop trying to achieve the reward of a jihadist by destroying the country they call the Great Satan?
ROFL! Indeed, if we go back to the afternoon of 9/11/2001 and recall the reasons the Islamists themselves gave for that attack, they listed four:
1) Western culture was eroding the appeal of Islam to Arab youth;
2) US support of Israel;
3) US troops on "holy soil", meaning US military bases in Saudi Arabia;
4) Western hegimony precluded the Islamic world from taking its rightful place as a world power.
Not a single mention of the ever-popular "poverty" or "dispair" that so easily rolls off the tongue of the MSM as reasons for "hatred".
Osama Bin Laden himself tells us this in his 1996 "Declaration of War Against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places." This fatwa is printed for everyone to read at www.mideastweb.org/osamabinladen1.htm.
see also:
http://www.gcc.edu/news/faculty/editorials/vantil_binladen_8_3_04.htm
Where this author sums up bin Laden's fatwa and the reason he "hates" the west and the US in particular:
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To sum up: Bin Laden is at war with the United States because it intruded into the holy land and later invaded sacred Iraq. These actions, condemned in the Qur’an he says, were sufficient cause for him to take up arms against the United States.
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It has nothing to do with anything other than who the US is. It is either them or us. Bin Laden and those who follow him have sworn it. Only the useful idots in the West try to deny it.
Shanks is basically an anti semite it appears...one of those Ritter fans - a loser and ignorant about the history of islamic terror. An atrocious writer too.
The money angle should not overlooked either.
Agreed. This guys view of history includes blinders.
Cornpone's summary of this article is great! Well done, Cornpone!
Mr. Shanks may have a personal problem in that he clearly is not getting enough bran in his diet and his thinking mechanism is clogged!
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