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--- In logic-ot@y..., GAmoore@a... wrote:

> matter is that there are about a billion Muslims who incorrectly 
attribute 
> all that is wrong in the world to the US. And clearly we saw 
some evidence of 
> that on sept 11.

IMO this is another false assumption. There is actually a 
proportionally small number of those 'billion Muslims' who think 
that. They just happen to be very vocal about it. 

Even if what you say were true, I don't even think that this belief is 
that far off the the mark, when one looks at US government policy 
in the Arab / Muslim world over the last fifty years, starting with 
our support of Israel, our IMO meddiling in the affairs of Iran 
(talking about the CIA's involvment with the Shah of Iran's reign, 
and the Islamic revolution that followed) leading up to the Gulf 
War and the US enforced sanctions against Iraq, which have had 
ABSOLUTELY NO EFFECT on Saddam Hussein. 

All issues on public record, and all contributing factors to why 
many in the Arab / Muslim world have this animosity towards the 
US.

One thing you can say about the Arab / Muslim world; they tend to 
be more informed about American foreign policy (at least in that 
region) than Americans are. Pretty sad, actually. If we were so 
informed about the policies of our elected officials, we wouldn't 
be asking ourselves today why the world hates us so much.

JUST TO MAKE IT CLEAR: with that being said, there is NO 
JUSTIFICATION for what happened on Sept. 11th, as it not only 
affected the US, but the whole world.

Charles