What was the name of the PBS Special?
Got to work together - GIVE ME A BREAK. She and her crime machine in the Demonrat party have spent every waking moment trying to destroy this President and America's ability to defend ourselves.
It was awesome. I mean, from a purely Jack Ryan fancier type perspective. Data is data. Anybody that is objective in their mission will take all data that they can get their hands on.
There was one notable person who often presented "cameo" opinions: this woman who often does stuff on TVO.
The premise of the show is that the root cause stems from the fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of WWI. That was the first offense of the Muslim psyche. The next egregious offense was the establishment of a secular state in Turkey.
I'm not going to get into it on this thread, but it opened my eyes to the utter intractible nature of the problem that faces the United States of America (and by extension the World). They got into the Wahabi Islamic sect, the srife between Muslims (Sunni & Shiite), and the origin of the Ba'ath party right out of Nazi politics. They addressed Nasser and the assissination of Sadat (and its significance).
I came away from viewing that show as it being a scathing critque of foreign policy up unto 1980. It was also a scathing critique of American foreign policy since then (can anybody pronounce hegemony?).
They got into why the U.S.A. is being attacked: its much much much much easier to attack an open and liberal society such as the U.S.A. instead of brutal, vicious, repressive, oppressive and ressesive regigms (the brutality of which nobody has seen since mideaval days) that emerged since early 1950's (take your pick - the list is quite long).
One quote at the end of the show stuck with me: "People say that Islam is an angry religion. I question the veracity of that. I do believe that there are a great deal of angry Muslims."
I don't dispute that Islam is an angry religion in general. Nevertheless, if one takes that as the basis and extrapolate from there angry and radical followers (based on the expository of this specific PBS special) from there, well, then.
My opinions are not based on any sort of historical ignorance either. I was very much relieved to see the show hit the "Palistinian Question" hit hard on the head.