Jensenman wrote:
ignorant wrote:
Jensenman wrote:
A bunch of mumbo jumbo...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles and our current situation are intertwined. Figure it out for yourself.. Some bullE36 M3 about hating us cause we're tolerant dosen't cut it buddy... You gotta go deeper..
You're looking at the symptoms and no the disease...
Symptoms and disease are inextricably intertwined.
Of course the Treaty of Versailles has a part in it. For instance, Britain cobbled together modern day Iraq from bits and pieces of the leftovers of the Ottoman empire. The British also ran Palestine until 1948, when they handed it over to the founders of the modern state of Israel. Funny; I don't see the US listed as running anything in the Mideast as a result of the Treaty of Versailles. Quite the opposite; the US pursued a policy of isolationism until Yamamoto sank some ships in a sneak attack.
If you want to really get down to it, the current problems in the Mideast can be blamed on the Crusades. (It really goes back even further than that.)
Hey, that was interesting: hundreds of year ago Muslims and Christians were fighting over Palestine (today's Israel), each trying to force their religion on the other and, if they wouldn't accept it, kill them. Sound familiar?
The problems are not new in any way. The only thing new is the weaponry.
The US was founded on religious tolerance. Heck, lots of the people who first settled here left their homelands over religious persecution. That whole thing was still pretty new and raw to the Founding Fathers so they made sure our government could not choose one religion over another. Say whatever you want, AFAIK that was the first time a country had that kind of tolerance written into its founding documents.
And that pisses off the intolerant to no end. To the point that they want to kill the non believer infidels over it.
Islamic attacks on the "west" pre-date the Crusades by a few hundred years.
Everyone has four cheeks to turn, but there seems to be a singular entity that wants blood from each of them. One entity offers all its' cheeks for flagellation and the other repeatedly has taken advantage of every opportunity. The wounds may heal but the scars, memories and history cannot be erased.
Current events make our Constitutional-founders bigger heroes than ever. They escaped oppression until it found them again, they attempted diplomacy until it failed, then they said "no more" and fought and died for freedom.
Sad, but it appears that the enlightened among us seem stuck on the diplomacy thing. Maybe the "next time" will affect their perceptions.
