[governsleastgovernsbest]

Where to start with this piece of trash? How about the headline: "As Sympathy Sours." As if the majority of people in the Arab world were ever sympathetic? As if polls have not consistently shown support of OBL, and a belief in the most absurd conspiracy theories?

And how about this one: "many accuse America of seeking blind revenge." You just know this is the author talking. Does he really claim that people who a year ago were sympathetic are now accusing us of blind revenge?

If blind revenge were our goal, Afghanistan, Iraq and other spots would indeed be "desert glass." That hasn't happened because we have been measured and careful in our response.

That the AP would choose to publish this loathsome article on September 11th speaks volumes about that organization.

[gaspar]

AP, the media's "Leaning tower of Pisa" (it leans so far left that no one can fail to notice) celebrates 9/11.

[goldstategop]

We're blinded by vengeance alright - to wipe out the crazies infesting this planet. Not bad for a Patriot Day mission brief. Now in the immortal words of the late Todd Beamer, "lets roll!!!"

[RightOnline]

""George Bush has all the Arabs under his control, the whole world under his control," said Nizar Jamil, 29, a salesman in Ramallah."

Oh, horse hockey, Nizar. You're just bitter 'cause you drew a shi**y patch for your sales territory.

[scouse]

Is there no limit to our absurdity? (No. The question was rhetorical.) We all know who the terrorists are, but we won’t even search Moslems because that would be discrimination.

"Fred on Everything"

[TomGuy]

From ancient souks to McDonald's, many see themselves headed toward war forced upon them by an angry superpower pursuing a limited number of religious fanatics.

Hey, you kick a sleeping giant, you suffer his wrath.

Too late to cry foul. After all, the hijackers acted on their on volition. The hijackers aimed toward towers.

A war forced...yeh, forced by those religious fanatics.

Maybe the Islamic fanatics should have read a bit more history in addition to the Koran--especially that section about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the Japanese admiral's warning to Japan that they had awakened the sleeping giant.

You can't kick the sleeping giant, murder 3000 innocent civilians, hijack 4 airplanes and plunge the innocent passengers and flight crew into your murderous plan. Yeh, you enraged the giant's wrath; it's too late cry "foul."

[tet68]

The impression in the region, said Negad Borai, an Egyptian human rights lawyer, is that American policy-makers are more comfortable with dictators.

"They'll have to rethink this," Borai said, "because one day they'll lose the authoritarian regimes and the people as well."

How little you understand democracy. YOU have to WANT to be free, Mr. Borai.
Oh, we are fixing to topple one dictator in the region, maybe we should try for a couple more,eh?

[MortMan]

...many accuse America of seeking blind revenge.

That's the way the game is played in their lands, isn't it? "Blind revenge"... Like the murder of a mother for being a 'collaborator' on the torture-induced confession of the son? Like exploding a human bomb in a pizzeria? Like hijacking and crashing jumbo jetliners into tall office buildings (not to mention oddly-shaped buildings that house thousands of civilians to go along with a good assortment of military personnel)?

As ye sow, so shall ye reap. Well, the reaper's coming, Achmed. Soon, you will be ach-dead, if you had anything to do with those despicable acts last September.

To borrow a phrase my old first sergeant... "F**k you!"

[Lion's Cub]

This piece of trash doesn't bother me. This one does:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/748362/posts
President Bush Holds Roundtable with Arab- and Muslim-American Leaders (transcript)

All Americans must recognize that the face of terror is not the true faith -- face of Islam. Islam is a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the world. It's a faith that has made brothers and sisters of every race. It's a faith based upon love, not hate.

Mr. Bush ought to say that with a straight face to all those people all over the world who have lost loved ones to the "love" of the muslims.

[Kenton]

...many accuse America of seeking blind revenge.

Not blind revenge. Cold, deliberate revenge, with eyes wide open.

I make no apologies for wanting revenge. I'm not the slightest bit interested in "healing" today. I just want to pack my hollowpoints with bacon fat and walk up to the very first Muslim I see and send them straight to hell without so much as a "good morning, do you know what today is?".

I won't do this of course, but like a lot of other Americans, I'll be thinking it.

[Steve0113]

And now, as U.S. threats build against Iraq, they worry about what might happen if American forces again invade their volatile region.

They have good reason to be worried. It's only prudent.

[Non-Sequitur]

Mideast Sees an America Blinded by Vengeance

Now there's a case of the pot calling the kettle black if ever there was one.

[Norman Conquest]

Let me get this straight: They're trying to avenge the Moors being kicked out of Andalusia 500 years ago -- and WE'RE the ones "blinded by vengeance"?