I've realised that on message boards the critical thinkers need a range of specialists working for them. I rough them up, and leave the details to others ~:cheers:Quote:
Originally Posted by JAG
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I've realised that on message boards the critical thinkers need a range of specialists working for them. I rough them up, and leave the details to others ~:cheers:Quote:
Originally Posted by JAG
You know looking at the thread on AQ Im even starting to doubt the varacity of that statement.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro
Oh please. Blaming the west for terrorism is like blaming the butterfly in China for the hurricane in Florida.
Now this one is starting to make sense. Whats happening to me ? ~:confused:Quote:
Livingstone cited Western policy in the Middle East and early American backing for Osama bin Laden.
Totally agree with Ken Livingstone. He couldn't say it better.Quote:
You've just had 80 years of Western intervention into predominantly Arab lands because of a Western need for oil. We've propped up unsavoury governments, we've overthrown ones that we didn't consider sympathetic.
From Wikipedia:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro
It doesn't appear to me, that the West was simply flapped its wings in China!Quote:
At the end of the WWI, ownership of and access to Iraq's petroleum was split by the British Mandate in five ways: 23.75% each to the UK, France, The Netherlands and the USA, with the remaining 5% going to a private oil corporation. The Iraqi government got none of the nation's oil. This remained the situation until the revolution of 1958.
Arabs are full of angry with the West. They could be living in rich, with their abundant-almost endless-oil resources, but instead they live in extreme poverty, being high oppressed and killed by their fierce governments and the lunatic and fundamentalistic terrorist.
Until middle 70's, Arabs used to support the radical nationalistic Left-wing groups and parties, but those groups failed to achieve their goals;independence, free state of Palestine, etc; and by the early of 90's they remained only shadows, obliterated by the radical Islamists who filled the gap.
Radical Islam was supported by the West, as counterbalance to Left nationalist (See US support on Mujahedins in Afganistan, against Soviet forces) and by middle 70's start to gain popular support and finally overthrow Arab Left-wing nationalism, as the only force which defies the West and Israeli occupation of the Palestine.