[Seti 1]

Radical Islam has always hated the United States

Radical Islam, yes. But the radicals have been a force only recently and that largely as a result of our support of Israel. At the very least, that support has furnished the rallying cry which the radicals use to get the destabilizing mobs into the street. If those mobs succeed in bringing down the moderate Arab governments there will be war to the knife. That is what Saddam (and his buddies) want and that is what the Israel First bunch wants--hence, all the media chatter about those terrible Saudi princes and how awful women have it in Egypt, etc.

[steve-b]

the radicals have been a force only recently

Seti I uses a Clinton definition of "recently" (i.e. "recently" by comparison to the age of the solar system).

[Trust but Verify]

The 'radicals' are the direct result of failed societies in the Arab world. Everything else is just an excuse.

[=Intervention=]

What moderate Arab states are you referring to? Look at Egypt's actions in the past few weeks and months. I'd hardly call them or the Saudis (funders of Al Quadia (sp)) moderate. Who's moderate? Oman, Qatar, Jordan? OK, fair enough...but there are fewer moderate Arab states that many suspect, and the term is quickly becoming an oxymoron.