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What were you taught? Peaceful sand dunes and camel parties until the crusades?
but I also believe that the Holy land was given to Israel, by covenant, not to gentiles(Myself)
originally posted by: Butterfinger
a reply to: intrptr
Noooooooooooooo!
When was first blood drawn? I can guarantee you there were American soldiers in Muslim countries long before the first terrorist attack happened on American soil.
originally posted by: Butterfinger
a reply to: intrptr
If we are discussing when which troops 'shot first', then you need to clarify the earlier challenge you posed
When was first blood drawn? I can guarantee you there were American soldiers in Muslim countries long before the first terrorist attack happened on American soil.
AVtech34 mentioned the Berber conflicts, you countered that it was basically way before the current cultures.
AVtech34 IMHO gave a satisfactory answer. If you're looking to narrow the scope to a more recent time, then when?
Russia (a western culture no matter what anybody says)was messing about in the ME since 70s or 80s. Do you think they aggravated the region to western cultures coming in and setting up shop?
By your logic we should have been at war with them since then over oil.
Always been about oil huh? how much oil were they exporting 200 years ago? 600 years ago? 1500 years ago?