In a way, yes. This is because Imperialism/Colonialism is a whore, selling out to the highest bidder. No one commits a "suicide terror act" in the name of Imperialism or Colonialism. But for religion, many hundreds of people have done so, in recent history. That is the danger of Islam.
Musharraf IS terrorism. I do not understand U.S. policy regarding these Muslims fanatics. We should have killed Saddam Hussein back in the Gulf War. We should have killed Osama bin Ladin years ago, after all of the incidents of global terrorism. And we should now, bomb the living shit out of Pakistan and kill Musharraf, because I promise you, if we strengthen him and trust him, he will rear his ugly head again. Islam has a pattern. It's pretty obvious that these guys, even when allowed to leave with their lives, always come back stronger, better armed, more sneaky, and much more insidious.
We keep Saddam around because he suits our needs. He's the bad cop to our good cop, the stick to our carrot. How else would we justify our military presence in the Gulf?
Re: #48. The reason Saddam survived the gulf war was that the U.S. made a deal with several arab states to allow U.N./U.S. forces to use their lands and bases to prosecute Desert Storm. The U.S. part of the agreement was that the U.N. would not kill Saddam or change the government of Iraq. The U.S. honored their agreement, that is why there was no U.S. support of the Kurds in the north or the Sheites in the south when they tried to rebel and overthrow Saddam. Me, I would have made an "error" in bombing and oops he's dead.
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