[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]Charlemagne wrote:
[quote]IrishSteel wrote:
Israel is not the root cause for why we are attacked by terrorists. The root cause of why we are attacked by terrorists is the exact same reason the west has always been attacked by Islam. Islam has a different set of values and the goal of global domination under the rule of Allah. Their values are in direct opposition to western civilization and only the total destruction/submission of the west to Islam’s control will bring peace between the west and Islam.
Pick a century - ANY century - adter tthe 6th century and you will find followers of Islam attacking the west. They may have a variety of rationales and justifications for their attacks - but the constant has been that Islam seeks the desruction/submission of all things non-Islam. PERIOD - END OF STORY.
There is no peace possible between the west and Islam - you’re only deluding yourself if you think this is possible. It is not Israel’s fault - If Israel was taken out of existence today, it would not change a thing. They will still seek to destroy the west . . . .[/quote]
What a pile of shit. Dude, keep believing the lies that the MSM, the zionists and the neocon fascists continue to put out and see where that gets you. Holy Fuck.
You are precisely the demographic that W. Bush was speaking to when he said the reason the attackers hit America on 9/11 was because…“They hate our liberty and freedoms!”. Oh yeah, sure that was it. They just couldn’t stand that Americans drank beer and watched football on Sunday’s. But I guess you just ate it all up.
And unless you think I am some “hippie liberal”, I spent two combat tours overseas. When I went over there the first time I remember expecting a bunch of crazy jihadists running around with AK-47’s and decapitating people all the time. It wasn’t like that. Most of the people are poor, they have nothing, they scratch out living doing whatever they can, many are sick and very hungry. The military of these countries are a fucking joke. I had my eyes opened quite a bit.
Now, were there bad people over there? Oh yeah, there was some bad shit that went down and some of my friends got hurt pretty badly. But none of that would have happened if we weren’t over there in the first place.
This “War on Terror” is an unwinnable war. I mean, when exactly do you declare that the war has been won? What is the standard? Answer: You don’t know, and you can never know. It’s like fighting the War on Drugs. It’s not something you can win at. There are no clear cut objectives. There are no standing armies to fight.
And as far as Islam being a threat to West since the 6th century. What are you talking about? When was the last serious threat to West from Islam? Vienna being beseiged by the Ottoman Turks in 1683? And even the Ottoman Empire was a secular Muslim empire and even then it lost most of its military might by the end of the 18th century.
At this point I would also like to point out the obvious to most people, but apparently not you that there are scumbags and psychopaths in any group of people. No race or religion has a monopoly on that.
[/quote]You’ve proved my point again that you don’t know your history. 1683 was the last time Islam posed a threat to the West, huh? Check out American History 101 for a little insight, circa 1795 - 1805.
However your lack of knowledge about history does not impugn your record of service to our country. I greatly appreciate it.
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You mean the Barbary Pirates? Oh yeah, they posed a real threat to America. I mean they could have invaded and just marched on Washington. (Unlike what a western power did at that time, The British) They were a bunch of brigands. They weren’t operating “for the glory of Allah”, and to spread Islam, but for profit and monetary gain. They were PIRATES.
What was casualty total for America, less than a 100? They barely even mention it in history books. Some of the gangs in our country now kill that many people in a week. The thing dragged on for quite some time too. The whole thing was a minor blip in history.
I also find it telling that you have to bring up an event that occurred 2 centuries ago, in North Africa no less, to prove that Islam has been a constant threat to the West. The Barbary Pirates!? Man, you are really reaching.
There hasn’t been a Muslim empire that could have projected enough military force to challenge the West since the Ottoman Turks in their military hay day’s of the 16-17th centuries. And again, the Ottoman’s were pretty westernized themselves. They expanded for the same reason the western powers did at the time, for profit.