i remember that ruckus.
i just wish common opinion over here realized that there are legitimate beefs, and not this 'they hate us because we are free' BS.
arabs in general are passionate people, but when it comes to national agendas and pan-arabic unity centuries-old blood feauds always get in the way.
we've done our part to divide them as a nation, but quite honestly i bet it'd be pretty divided without our help.
but our help remains and will always be a sticking point.
that being said western support for regimes like saudi arabia and the taliban paint us in a wierd brush among the moderate secular arabs.
it seems to me that this 'clash of civilzations' idea is near total nonsense when looked at with bodycounts and military expenditure in mind. more like clash of forward thinkers and backward thinkers, with us solidly on the side of the backward-thinkers.
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