Uneasy silence of the Arab allies as anger grows

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 10/09/2001 | Anton La Guardia and Alan Philps

[veronica]

Bump for our fair-weather Arab "allies" in "the coalition."

[stilts]

No doubt they are on the sidelines quietly watching. They are looking down the twin barrels of a shotgun. The first barrel is the political hit they will eventually take when the War on Terrorism gets around to looking at each of their own countries. The second barrel represents the economic hit that they will take if Afghanistan is stabilized to the point that the oil and gas pipeline can be laid and the vast reserves of Central Asia get developed and the fuel gets to market. Lower prices and loss of the oil weapon has huge longterm ramifications for their own standing in the world. I wouldn't expect them to jump at the opportunity to help bring about their own demise.

[CathyRyan]

If the Arab world had just kept their own house tidy, we would never have had to go in and hauled out the trash.

[veronica]

Let's make a movie - The Silence Of The Arabs.

They love Osama - they worship him with a nice Chianti, some fava beans...and a little Hummus.

[paul51]

If your a terrorist or terrorist supporter, being an Arab, Muslim or Islamic isn't going to save your sorry a**.

[avg_freeper]

"In an address to clerics punctuated with ritual cries of "Death to America, Death to Israel", Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, said: "We condemn the attack on the country and the people of Afghanistan."

Someday these clerics will learn the valuable lesson that China once learned.

You can fan the flames of hatred and vengeance into a roaring fire to distract
from you own inadequacies.

But if the evil capitalist or great Satan turns out to be nothing more than a
paper tiger then only you will be consumed.

Because of earlier painful lessons China has learned to keep the rhetoric to
a manageable level.

If these guys don't then Islam might very well consume its self.

[tessalu]

If you do not believe in a Satan, these guys are going to cause you to believe. Satan does control people just like he did Pharoah of Old and wicked old Ahab and Jezebell.

[Lent]

Even the fiercely pro-Western Kuwait said Arabs and Muslims could not watch the operations in Afghanistan without "a heavy heart".

Say it all together now: PAN ARAB ISLAMIC FASCISM or PAN ISLAMIC FASCISM.

[Lent]

"a heavy heart".

Yeah, the black heart of Islam. Boohooo. All crying over the fascistic Taliban theocratic hegemony and poor, poor Binny. It just goes to show these people don't give a rats over the people. I keep hearing the people in Afghanistan are poor and repressed and want to get rid of the Taliban. Am I being mislead by the Arab countries and our media?

[Map Kernow]

These guys being Arabs, they talk out of both sides of their mouths. The only thing that makes them more uneasy than possible attacks by the US on Arab madmen like Saddam Hussein and Moammar Qaddafi is the possibility that we won't finish the job, like in '91, and they're left all alone again to deal with the bloodied but unbowed lunatics and their adoring "Arab street" there in the Middle East.

[avg_freeper]

"If you do not believe in a Satan, these guys are going to cause you to believe."

Hold off there Ayatollah,
I do not believe that my America is the great Satan. They do.

Does their hatred for the big bad USA blind you as well?

[veronica]

Israel's artificial economy is already on the verge of collapse.

LOL. Yeah right.

[Lent]

Have you REALLY thought this through..

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[Jim Noble]

>>as anger grows <<

They will never be as angry as we are.

Message to all the ragheads: Clinton is gone. Get over it.

[leadhead]

Whole bunch of folks out there trying for next year's Darwin Award.

[Map Kernow]

You can instigate for total war with all the Arabs and ALL the Muslims and get lots of Americans and Arabs killed, but Israel will not benefit. Israel's artificial economy is already on the verge of collapse. Your options will be what? Nuke somebody? That's also known as Zionist fanaticism.

Excuse me, did I miss the part in the story about all those Israeli students marching and shouting "Death to America!"? But I didn't miss this: no matter what these Arabs do or say, for people like you, it's always all about Israel, isn't it?

[sheik yerbouty]

Treachery is afoot. Actually, acamel.