Yes, governments, whose power base becomes insufficient to maintain it, are overthrown. And people do not overthrow them at will, remember the Eastern Block countries during the Cold War.
In the Middle East, the regimes are all totalitarian governments of one form or another. The governing regimes have the military and police apparatus to keep the people under control. Anyone who wants to try and overthrow the government get their head chopped off, or a bullet to the back of the head, or a tank rolled over them like the Chinese. He11, the South didn't exactly succeed in overthrowing the North in our country.
Arafat, Fayd, and even the Eqyptian leadership would like to restrain the Muslim hate. King Fayd of Saudi Arabia is afraid the militant Muslims will over throw his government.
After fomenting anti-Western/American hatred among their subjects for so long, they have found it is getting out of their control in many instances. Also, their grip on power is slipping. Those they rely on to sustain their power are getting sucked into the propaganda they fostered for so long, thereby diminishing the power of their governments.
Palistinians watch CNN more than you do.
I doubt you have any knowledge of their CNN viewship numbers. They get what the PA transmits to them over the state controlled TV.
They hate us. We do not have a leader problem. If we killed all the leaders they would just get new leaders. We have a 200 million follower problem.
They hate us in the same way the Japanese did in WWII. They have been given plenty of propaganda, remember, these are not free and open societies. We must take care of the leaders and the followers, the leaders must stop the propaganda, and the followers must be exposed to the truth.
Nations always get the governments they want.
Utter nonsense. Tell that to the Eastern block countries during the Cold War. He11, tell that to the countries making up the former Soviet Union.
You must get it through your head that some nations do not want freedom. Many people do not want freedom.
More nonsense. They may support a new government because they hate the old and think the new government will give them a better life, but in this they may be quite disappointed. Those who support repressive regimes are either part of the power structure, hope to be, or are to afraid to do otherwise.
The educated Germans of the 1930's wanted Hitler more than they wanted freedom.
More nonsense. They weren't thinking they were trading freedom for Hitler.
We don't have a leader problem.. We have a follower problem. If all we do is kill the leaders the followers will just get new leaders.
Actually, we have a leader and a follower problem. The leaders have been propagandizing the followers with lies, this must stop. The terrorist threat is a direct result of this propaganda. It will take time for the followers to get a hold of the truth and begin to look on the West and the US correctly. It can be done, look at the Japanese. They were propagandized just as badly, yet they overcame it.
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When a people are compelled to follow a totalitarian leadership, the first generation is filled with hate and fear, the second generation is fearful but hopeful, the third generation is obedient and complaint.
9/11 is a prime example of mass murder that is glossed over with a patina of respectability by appealing to religious ambiquities to be found generously throughout the Koran. If the fanatics'war is to end without millions of deaths (regardless of whom those deaths are attributed to since bin Laden would be more than please to sacrifice millions of Muslims in order to reshape the world in the image he serves--satanic subjugation0 ... if the war is too end, it is the Muslim world of sanity now so timid to assert itself that must do so, else we will end this war for them regardless of the collateral damage; our homes are already under seige, we'll take our terrible destructive power to their homes as the fanatics escalate this terror, and the sooner the timid Muslims realize this the sooner they may arise to stand against the madness they now support in weak complicity.
Perhaps some 'marshall plan' to establish reasonable government in these now terrorist supporting states will come, but unless the Muslim world rejects these fanatics, these terrorists, these mass murderers, we will annihilate them to get rid of the terrorist bases of money, property, and proselytes ... the young of these terrorist supporting states are the product of the parents' raising, not bin Laden's parenting, make no mistake on that for we will, if needs be, kill thousands of these misled kids to end terrosim as it is now spreading. We are at war with totalitarian fanatics, not Muslims of honor. we must annihilate them and allow the moderate, co-existence oriented Muslims assume control.
Finally, ask yourself this to get a feel for the message: when will the drug culture cease to exploit the hood? ... When the indiividuals in the hood expel and reject the drug culture promoters. Is that an economic question? The liberals would like to have us believe so, but it is cultural in origin, not economic. When will fanatics cease to exploit the Mulism world that wants to co-exist and live in peace? ... It's really not hard to see the answer to that, but we will have to give the effort a push with an horrific, overwhelming power response, then back away and set up for the next targets. Let's hope the Muslim world gets the picture clearly, because I pray we do not stop if they do not for our very existence is riding in the balance if we stop before the wrok is done. I would much rather see the Muslim world do the majority of the work against the fanatical satan servants, but if it doesn't, we must do it or die.