http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/10/20/terrorism/
All the pundits seem to be lining up behind an escalation in Afghanistan, and I guess that's to be expected when some of them are Democratic pundits and the President is a Democrat. Thing is, it's totally at odds with public opinion, with about half the public thinking it's time to withdraw at least a little.
It's pretty much the same thinking that got us stuck in Iraq. This report produced by the Pentagon in 2004 (honestly, please just click the link and read, good stuff) pretty much fuckin' served the GOP for thinking that way, which is pretty amazing considering that the boss at the Pentagon was Donald Rumsfeld.
Basically, the report says that the Muslim world hates us for constantly getting them killed, and not because "they hate our freedoms" like your dumbass neighbor Jeff says. Oh, and also, everyone else in the world is starting to hate us too, and if you want friends on your side when you go to war, it helps that they don't hate you.
Yeah, some of the terrorists are just plain crazy, and there's no talking to them. But they wouldn't be getting by as well as they are if the non-terrorist people in the Muslim world didn't hate our asses too.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
10/19/2009 Taliban Opinion Canvassing
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/10/19/rohde/
In my continuing series of columns commenting on things you really should be reading yourself, I write about the latest entry of David Rohe's fascinating account of being kidnapped by the Taliban.
The Taliban guys said a lot of things that were actually true, like the US killing civilians and keeping people locked up god-knows-where and subjecting them to god-knows-what.
We think of stuff like that as bad apples in a good bunch, but they think it means we are trying to wipe them out.
Pretty much it's because none of us really gives a rat's ass. If they did to us what we do to them, though, we'd care a lot. We still care more about 9/11 than we really should, but that's a drop in the bucket to what the Middle East gets from us on a regular basis.
A sizable minority of people in the USA still want to attack Middle Eastern countries today, which tells you that a sizable minority of people in the USA failed to develop critical social skills as toddlers.
Glenn On Fire rating: 7 (5 for the article, +2 for it being the 2nd article posted today)
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In my continuing series of columns commenting on things you really should be reading yourself, I write about the latest entry of David Rohe's fascinating account of being kidnapped by the Taliban.
The Taliban guys said a lot of things that were actually true, like the US killing civilians and keeping people locked up god-knows-where and subjecting them to god-knows-what.
We think of stuff like that as bad apples in a good bunch, but they think it means we are trying to wipe them out.
Pretty much it's because none of us really gives a rat's ass. If they did to us what we do to them, though, we'd care a lot. We still care more about 9/11 than we really should, but that's a drop in the bucket to what the Middle East gets from us on a regular basis.
A sizable minority of people in the USA still want to attack Middle Eastern countries today, which tells you that a sizable minority of people in the USA failed to develop critical social skills as toddlers.
Glenn On Fire rating: 7 (5 for the article, +2 for it being the 2nd article posted today)
Updates: 0
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