http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1066379/posts Contemporary Islamist Ideology Permitting Genocidal Murder
MEMRI ^ | 1/27/2004 | Yigal Carmon
I think Steven den Beste at USS Clueless has said it pretty well...
"The Arabs who think America hates Arabs should consider what their own governments would do to Israel if they had one thousandth of the nuclear arsenal that the US has, and then compare that to what the US has actually done. Do our actions really make sense as an expression of hatred, given what else we could have done instead?
We are not acting out of hatred, but we will not pander to the Arabs. We are going to give the Arabs what they need, but that is not what many of them want. And in the short run, some Arabs will interpret that as cruelty on our part. But if we were motivated by hatred for the Arabs, we wouldn't be bothering with that; instead, we would have killed them all within the first week after the Arab attack against us."
Steven den Beste
http://denbeste.nu/