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Old 11-08-2005, 01:42 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Perhaps. But the extremists are a small minority. The War on Terror is supposedly against those who use terrorist means. Not a religion. Even Bush repeatedly tried to point that out a couple of years ago, in his speeches.

And by logic of your argument, every citizen in Latin-America has the divine right to hold all Americans responsible for what a few Americans in power did to their country, a few decades ago. Now, that makes perfect sense, does not it?

And of course, the sacking of Fallujah has demonstrated what is great about the Western world. And if orders for the troops are basically shoot whatever moves, it is not hard to come up with a reason for everything and everyone alive to arm themselves, and defend themselves. If the US claim to be doing that in Iraq, surely that same principle can apply to Iraqi's in their own country.

I can maintain that Christian fundamentalists have ruined the US. I know Americans who believe that. Is that a valid ground to ban everything even remotely related to Christianity from public life?
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