Posted by
Starspangledblogger on Thursday, February 01, 2007 7:34:37 PM
WHY THEY HATE US
For the dullards who blame Muslim hatred of America on U.S. mid-east policies, may I refer you to the 1300 years of ACTUAL history before our country even existed. It is mostly a history of aggressive military expansion.
I know, I know. I've heard the mantras. Crusades blah blah blah. Muslim tolerance of other religions yada yada yada. If you care to honestly study and confront your history, you'll find that the Crusades began only after three hundred years of aggressive and hostile expansions by Theocracy-powered Islamic forces. They were bent then, as they are today, on world conquest in the name of Allah.
Our infant nation had run-ins with the Muslims long before she could be accused of having ANY mid-east aspirations, presence, or policies. Take a few minutes to read the Tripoli Treaties. It's almost eerily prophetic if you can mentally separate it from a context of 1600 plus years of pre-existing Muslim history.
No reasonable person can deny that many modern troubles stemmed from rather hamfisted treatment of the region after WWI, and there have been a number of blunders since. But you make a major error by continuing to insist that the Jihadists have targeted us because of our policies. They are bent on global conquest, and we are a chief obstacle to that goal. To deny this fact is foolish and blind.
With regard to the claims of Pat's anti-Semitism: can anyone provide one shred of evidence for this ugly claim? For years I've asked for evidence. It never comes. The closest these race baiters ever get is to cite PJB's stance against a conflation of U.S.-Isreli interests.
He does not see the modern nation of Israel as identical with Judaism or Jewishness, and he certainly does not see it as coterminous with American ends. But he rails against U.S. involvement anywhere that does not directly impinge upon American interests. This position is uniform, with no special dislike of Hebrew things. Hey, even the Bible, written mostly by Jews, calls Jerusalem a perpetual burdensome stone and a cup of trembling. Is Pat anti-Semitic for observing the same truth.
Pat is mistaken in this regard. We are in a war driven by Jihad, and the Israel issue is nothing but a shell account opened by Jihadists to give their actual cause an ethical currency to spend among their prospective base. Unfortunately, many far left and far right Westerners have started accepting that fraudulent tender.