Originally posted by TSilone91
I disagree, this is just another case of America's inability to keep it's nose out of other peoples business. The Muslim countries have been
fighting for a millenia and they will continue to fight. All we do is egg them on and assume we're doing the right thing because lives were lost.
What do you mean by "America's inability to keep its nose out of other people's business"? I'll agree that America has has a long history of
butting into other people's business but it isn't necessarily the US gov't. For example, many American women's rights organizations are trying to
stop the dreadful tradition of Female Genital mutilation in underdeveloped countries (most notoriously Islamic countries), and it will necessarily
anger the local cultures, but I don't believe the US gov't has made an official stance on FGM in islamic nations. The same goes with American gay
rights organizations- they are trying to interfere with Iran's Sharia law stating that homosexuals should be executed (about 4000 since their
revolution) and the Iranian people don't appreciate our know-it-all people going over there and telling them what to do.
Oh, I'm sorry, when you said "interfere with other people's business" is this not what you were referring to?
We want to do right by the people who's mothers, sons, daughters and fathers were lost on 9-11 but we can't even fix our own country. We want
to help others when we can't even help our self. We borrow and borrow, we fail at managing our budget, we fail as a country.
The fact does not contradict the statement that Islamic nations run more on stone age traditions than rational thought or even what's best for their
people. The one mistake OBL made is actually the same mistake we're making with Muslim countries- he was applying the rules and traditions he was
familiar with in dealing with others, as he genuinely though a terrorist attack here would produce something tangible for his cause. He didn't
realise that we were quite willing to bankrupt ourselves to hunt him down like an animal. Great, we hunted him down. Now comes the "bankruptcy"
part.
America thrives in hatred and intolerance and until we accept the problem and move on, we will always have this problem.
Now you just contradicted yourself. You're complaining that all these American know-it-alls are going to these foreign countries tryign to improve
tolerance to modern ideas that contradict their age old traditions (like that whole "don't kill gay people in the street" thing) which is
necessarily getting under their skin, and then you turn around and insist "America thrives in hatred and intolerance". You can't have it both
ways.
It's time to move on and fix what we've messed up instead of worrying about everyone else's petty differences.
I would hardly call a terrorist attack on American soil that wound up killing 3000 people "a petty difference".
It's quickly becoming obvious that the genuine "ugly truth" the OP was referring to is that not everything in the world is the result of soemthign
the US is doing. Yes, pinch yourself, it's true- there actually is a whole world out there beyond the US borders and they have their own agenda
completely separate from what the US is doing.
