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Originally posted by RougeUnderoos@Sep 7 2004, 04:50 PM
So the answer, Reg, is just "kill kill kill"? That's it just keep killing them?
It's going to be a long one then. However long it takes to kill everyone over there I guess.
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Maybe the answer is the Bill Maher Method - hire other people to kill them.
Sponsor right wing dictatorships that co-operate with your geo-political aims and allow them to brutally suppress their people.
That's what Maher said in a recent interview the USA should get back to doing. That way they wouldn't have to invade places. They could keep out of other people's affairs by keeping dictators in power.
Kind of keeps your hands clean. No muss, no fuss.
I guess the USA, rather than leading the way to free Kuwaiti's - and their oilfields - in 1991 with a broad UN sponsored coalition, should have instead cozied up to Hussein instead.
Maybe they would have if he hadn't had Saudi Arabia on his radar.
EDIT to add:
Couple that with what I said above and the fact that most of the media sources over there have a distinct anti-American slant to them,
That was true pre-Iraq. Its actually not necessarily true post-Iraq.
In an editorial on the hostage crisis in Beslan, Abdelrahman al-Rashid, the managing director of the satellite channel al-Arabiya, wrote: "It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims."
Mr Rashid's article, which appeared on Saturday in al-Sharq al-Awsat, singled out the controversial and influential Egyptian cleric, Yousef al-Qaradawi, whose views are aired regularly on the Qatari satellite channel, al-Jazeera.
"A man of his advanced age incites young men to kill civilians, while his two daughters are studying under the protection of British security in the "infidel" United Kingdom," Mr Rashid wrote. The implication is that Mr Qaradawi is a hypocrite.
"We [Muslims] cannot clear our names unless we own up to the shameful fact that terrorism has become an Islamic enterprise.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3632462.stm
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