Sigh, I don't know how to go about this one. Last week the Prez gave a speech in Cairo, Egypt. In his speech he spoke of tearing down the stereotypes that the Muslim and US have towards each other. This was done in part to open dialogue between the US and Muslim Nations. The thing that bothers me is how is it that people can look at this gesture and say that it makes The United States look weak? It shocked me to hear a long time friend of mine make this comment. If the president speaks about peace and wishes to engage in Dialogue with countries that we have cut off diplomatic ties with, how is that weakness. I honestly feel that a lot of people in the US today have no Idea as to how the US has dealt with the Middle East for over 20 years.
Our Policy in the US has always been one in which the ME countries who we did not get oil from are dangerous, and the ones that we can get oil from we tolerate. For Years Israel has been going on a terror in the ME with the backing of the US. This imaginary war needs to end. Currently the US is not at war with any country but people seem to not understand that. Bin Laden and whomever else the US is at war with are a gang. We have spent Billions of dollars fighting a gang of thugs. People don't seem to understand the reason this will never end because it is not as easy as fighting a country, you have no clear cut objective. This is like the US's war on Drugs, now ask yourself how long have we been fighting that one.
The first thing that needs to happen here in the US is that people strip away the prejudices and the ignorance. We need to understand that Muslims are not Terrorist, just because they are Muslim. Terrorists come in all shapes, sizes, creeds, and nationalities. These are people and albeit that their beliefs are different than ours does not make them wrong. We need to wake up and understand that in todays world the biggest stick is not always right
Our Policy in the US has always been one in which the ME countries who we did not get oil from are dangerous, and the ones that we can get oil from we tolerate. For Years Israel has been going on a terror in the ME with the backing of the US. This imaginary war needs to end. Currently the US is not at war with any country but people seem to not understand that. Bin Laden and whomever else the US is at war with are a gang. We have spent Billions of dollars fighting a gang of thugs. People don't seem to understand the reason this will never end because it is not as easy as fighting a country, you have no clear cut objective. This is like the US's war on Drugs, now ask yourself how long have we been fighting that one.
The first thing that needs to happen here in the US is that people strip away the prejudices and the ignorance. We need to understand that Muslims are not Terrorist, just because they are Muslim. Terrorists come in all shapes, sizes, creeds, and nationalities. These are people and albeit that their beliefs are different than ours does not make them wrong. We need to wake up and understand that in todays world the biggest stick is not always right
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