reply to post by DREAMING MAN
I think you are on the correct bearing as for assessments. Many people would rather choose not to face the ...FACTS...
1979, Iran seized the US Embassy, Tehran. US hostages held 444 days.
1983, Beirut. 220 US Marines killed by Hezbollah terrorists.
1993, New York. World Trade Center attacked by Islamic terrorists.
2000. USS Cole attacked by Islamic terrorists.
2001, NYC, WDC, Pa. Over 3000 killed by Islamic terrorists.
2004, Madrid. 201 killed, 1400 wounded by Islamic terrorists.
2005, London. Islamic terrorists kill 52. 70+ wounded.
____,Tomorrow. Chaos.
...am I seeing some sort of trend here? Give terrorists the opportunity & they will give their lives for heavenly bliss.
Dreaming man....
Let me first say your name fits you like a glove because you are really living in self-constructed fantasy.
Those events combined; the number of people killed due to Islamic Fundamentalist terrorism since 1979 totals around
3500 deaths, and that's a
generous estimation.
You want to play the statistics game, here's some figures for you:
Korea, 1950 - 100,000 "leftists" and peasants killed by US backed regime.
Iran, 1953 - The US overthrows democratically-elected President Mossadegh and replaces him with a puppet, "The Shah", who is more
receptive to US/Anglo-Oil Interests in the region. His CIA-backed secret police, the SAVAK, torture and kill upto 40,000 dissidents and "leftists"
until his overthrow in 1979.
Guatemala 1954 - democratically elected Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán is overthrown, right-wing Military Junta installed, executes upto 50,000
"traitors" & "Communists"
Iraq 1963 - The Ba'ath Party led by Abdel Karim Kassem (Saddam's cousin) comes to power with the CIA's help, and is given lists,
locations and weapons to rid the country of Communists.
Chile 1973 - Democratically-elected President Salvador Allende is overthrown in a coup with CIA backing and replaced by the right-wing,
military dictator Augusto Pinochet who proceeds to lock up, torture or execute anyone he claims is a Communist for around 15 years.
Afghanistan 1980's - The epitome of one's mistakes biting them in the ass, CIA provides widespread arming and funding of Mujahideen
militias to deter Soviet Occupation, the same Mujahideen who later formed the vicious and cruel Taliban regime and provided a save haven for Osama and
Al-Qaeda.
Nicaragua 1981-1990 - CIA provides arms, funds and training to the right-wing Sandinista Regime (known as the Contras) who executed over
80,000 Nicaraguan civilians. The funding for the Nicarguan Operation came from profits made via secret arms sales to Iran during the Iran-Iraq War.
Total number of dead, thanks to US-backed regimes and dictators?
Over 400,000. And that's only relating to the above covert operations mentioned.
During the Cold War, America undertook a widespread and concentrated effort to back every Right-wing nutjob and his party on the planet in a bid to
stop
"Communist Aggression".
en.wikipedia.org...
Of course, the only thing these dictators and terrorists had in common with the US was that they hated Communism, the similarities stopped there.
Most of these regimes would have made Stalin envious of their totalitarian nature and absolutely brutal, unrelenting methods used to quell rebellion
and dissident uprisings.
Tell me now...
Do you see a TREND here?
You talking about Islamic Fundamentalism, which is not only a very recent phenomenon compared to America's long history of terrorism sponsorship but
is a piss in the ocean compared to the amount of death and destruction the US is indirectly responsible for.
Apples and friggin' Watermelons here, prioritise your attention.
Your worried about Islamic terrorists, the majority of which have directed their aggression at other Muslims, when the biggest terrorist in the world
is in your own backyard.
If anyone is not facing facts here it's you. Ignorant of the sad, misguided history of America's political friendships with some of the worst
regimes and terrorists in history.
You reap what you sow...
All of this is coming back to bite America in it's authoritative ass, and people all of a sudden forget history and past events and instead
narrow-mindedly focus on the present, where all they can see is Muslims committing terrorist acts on Western interests.
If people like yourself bothered to look a little deeper, you would see America's spending spree during the Cold War did nothing but to embolden
extremists everywhere and swell their ranks and now with no Communist enemies left to fight they make new ones.
Western ones... and America tastes it's own medicine for once.
[edit on 6/8/08 by The Godfather of Conspira]