Muslim Riots

[SolOmoN]

I believe God has his own sense of humor... I mean look at the tsunami.... where it happend... then the earthquake in Pakistan...

he is doling out his own medicine for all of their misreading within their culture and religon.

mho

sol...


plus turning the area into a Walmart wouldn't be to bad either.

[Pete_G]

Originally Posted by SolOmoN

I believe God has his own sense of humor... I mean look at the tsunami.... where it happend... then the earthquake in Pakistan...

he is doling out his own medicine for all of their misreading within their culture and religon.

mho

sol...


plus turning the area into a Walmart wouldn't be to bad either.

Katrina?

[SolOmoN]

Indonesia ovewhelming muslim population if im not mistaken.

sol...

[Saltheart]

I think the riots and what sparked them is going a long way to convince us that they are unreasonable and not interested in living in peace with the rest of the people in the world. They want everyone praying to Mecca and kill everyone who doesn't. We are being fools right now to think we can stomp out a few radicals and the problem goes away.

[BigFish]

I nominate Saltheart for President!

[spence]

Welllllllllllllll, isn't that what Prez Bush's vision to spread democracy is all about?

Granted, I think it's a neocon pipe dream...but that is the plan!

-spence

[Raven]

Originally Posted by Saltheart

I think the riots and what sparked them is going a long way to convince us that they are unreasonable and not interested in living in peace with the rest of the people in the world. They want everyone praying to Mecca and kill everyone who doesn't. We are being fools right now to think we can stomp out a few radicals and the problem goes away.

saltheart "well spoken" it aint going away...its gonna mushroom.

[Pete_G]

I just think that BOTH sides operate with a "my way or the highway" attitude, which inherently leaves little option for communication and always pushes towards violence.

I'm not saying I have the answers, just that making this a black or white issue isn't going to solve problems. They're never going to stop blowing stuff up, and we of course can't go all the way militarily and scrub them off the planet.

Maybe it's an overly optimistic view (but I don't think so unless you seriously think bombing them into oblivion is an option), but at some point some common ground, even a little, needs to be found. Security policies need total reinvention and the roots of the problems need to be addressed, as opposed to addressing just the end result of violence. United States Security should not only be thought of as a military issue.

Diplomacy seems to be a lost art. Someone, somewhere needs to offer an olive branch. Of course, the past couple decades of policy has kind of pushed things towards a point of no return...

[spence]

Originally Posted by Pete_G

Diplomacy seems to be a lost art.

Correction, it is a lost art!

I posted a mini-review of "The New American Militarisim" a while back...read it...

-spence