i dig music wrote on Sun, 02 December 2007 00:23 |
Ashermusic wrote on Sat, 01 December 2007 17:00 |
Those "loony Muslims in Africa" share views about the way to treat those with different values with hundreds of thousands of others, perhaps millions, and you are making it sound like they are a handful. They are not.
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so asher,
what do you want to do about the "hundreds of thousands of others, perhaps millions" of muslims?
maybe....just maybe....it's a few arsehole's ruining things for everybody else in the world.
maybe....just maybe......
as mgod has has pointed out to you very clearly,
history is repeating. same game. new place. new faces. different time.
maybe....just maybe..... orders and policy are made by a few arsehole's in power for other reasons, using ideology as their excuse and justification.
it wouldn't be that much of a stretch. but what i think your saying is that we should weed out the bad ones and "deal with them"?
let's pretend like your in charge now.
how would you determine who is bad or good?
again, what would you do to the bad ones if you had the "power" to change and control what you fear?
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Fair questions. Here is where I am supposed to write"bombs away", right?
I do not have all the answers. Richard Clarke has some of them and I use many of his.
1. Decrease our dependence on foreign oil so we are free to work to push repressive regimes to moderate and stop treating faux friends like the Saudis as true friends, which they are not, and pressure them to move to more humane treatment of women and non-believers.
2. Continue to work for a settlement to the Israeli- Palestinian conflict. While it will not really change much in the eyes of the terrorists it perhaps will decrease support of them by the so-called moderates.
3. Spend more of our military budget on intelligence so that we have a better chance of disrupting terrorist activities. We also need to work to secure more international funding for Interpol, which would like to play a larger role and is capable of it but simply does not have the money.
4. Encourage Muslim groups to denounce terrorism, the treatment of women as second class citizens, and intolerance of non-believers.
5. Enlist NATO to apply pressure to Iran and Syria to stop supplying terrorist groups. I do know if this can happen however because several of the key NATO countries are deathly afraid of their large Muslim populations.
6. Enlist and empower people like Richard Clarke who have proven their understanding of this and unlike the Bush administration, actually LISTEN to them.
As I say,I do not have all the answers and I would never vote for myself as president. I think however people like Joe Biden and even Hillary have a pretty good handle on this.