Originally Posted By DAR <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071127/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_palestinians" target="_blank">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200 71127/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_palestinians</a> I'm sure I'll get a lot of flack for this, but really maybe the world would be better off with them out of it.
Originally Posted By jonvn Probably would. They just want death. They celebrated us being attacked on 9/11. And they are the reason there is no peace in this world.
Originally Posted By gadzuux Those people running around the streets yelling "death to america" are just doing what their religious leaders tell them to do. The mullahs fill their heads with crap even as they're filling their bellies with food - to keep them in the fold. If we had been building schools with lunch programs twenty or even ten years ago, I think we'd be seeing a different kind of relationship with the middle east. To win the hearts and minds of people who are starving, first you have to feed them. Religion has known this all along. We see it here the US with everything from faith based charities to the soup kitchens run by the salvation army. Maybe we're not so different from them after all.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad <<<Maybe we're not so different from them after all. >>> We are different! Why? Because we KNOW, we understand, and that makes us not only different, but responsible. Responsible for what? I am talking on a human level, not political. Responsible to help, to heal, to aid, to change. Responsible to ourselves to do what we can for the greater good. How do we change these people? I have no idea. I have toiled over this, and come up empty handed. But we are different. We have to try somehow. And like you say, we should have been at it 10, 20 years ago. It takes time that much is obvious. Is there no end to this sort of thing? We bring half of this on ourselves as a nation it seems. The world is a madhouse. Sometimes I think we should give up and quit. But we can't. We can't because we are different.
Originally Posted By jonvn "Is there no end to this sort of thing?" No, there isn't. And as soon as we realize this, and stop with the nonsense of appeasement we have engaged in for the last 25 or so years, it will do nothing but get worse.
