The Logic Off Topic list

--- In logic-ot@y..., GAmoore@a... wrote:
> 
> >...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, 
> 
> 
> How about these things the US did :

> - come fight a war against Iraq, lest Saddam Hussein now 
have two 
> additional provinces called Kuwait and Saudi.

In the interest of the Saudis and Kuwaitis, or our own? I'll take 
#2.

> - try to sort out the mess in Somalia and bring food aide

Which is all we should have done, but we didn't

> - try to sort out the mess in Bosnia and Kosovo and fight 
Christian Yugos 
> in defense of Muslims

A fact overlooked by most of the Muslim world, I agree.

> - support the Afgan resistance in the face of Soviet invasian 
(this is 
> frequently used as an excuse for Bin Laden's creation but did 
the US 
> invade Afganistan in 1980 and kill tens of thousands? No that 
was the 
> Russians).

Well, look where that got us now. The Taliban (with bin Laden's 
help), are now firing anti aircraft Stinger missles at us that we 
gave them. Same with Iraq in the Gulf War. 


> >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 Saddam has to do is say "Alright no more nukes or bio 
weapons" and 
> then his people can eat all they want and have much money as 
they want. 
> It his sick mind that doesn't think of his own people. The fact 
that he 
> keeps trying and trying to get mass destruction weapons, and 
the fact 
> that he has invaded two neighbors (kuwait and iran), and used 
poison gas 
> on the Iranians and his own Kurds means the world 
community has no choice 
> - other than to go in and get him once and for all - which I think 
its 
> time to do..

Well, if news reports about one of the Sept.11 hijackers having 
meetings with Iraqi intelligence are true, that time may be 
coming soon...

Charles