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There are forces afoot in America that plenty of conservative Americans don't like either. However, we have ways to vent our frustrations through forums like FreeRepublic and in the voting booth (Though the other side does attempt to steal elections). Perhaps they may wish to do the same instead of suicide bombings and terrorism.

This article was the number one headline in the Star Ledger today.

"There's a sense that the Islamic world is under assault by the West. It's an assault that extends from politics and economics to daily lifestyles and the military. Everywhere you turn, 'the West is out to get us.'"

What a bunch of hokum. The only assault they are under comes from within. Get rid of your own brutal and corrupt regimes and your 'oppression' will be over.

Analysts attribute most of the Arab world's economic woes to an unwillingness to embrace the forces of globalization.

Hmm, if so, they are a little dense. Globalisation works for Muslims - they will be able to settle among shrinking Western populations devastated by secularism, decadence and feminism. In a couple of generations they could replace the kafirs and zimmis without any Jihad. Easy does it.

Interesting, but to be honest I don't give a flip what the Arab world, or for that matter the rest of the world "thinks" about America and Americans. But I do want them to "FEAR" us and I want to see their fears substantiated. Islam is a vile philosophy and the Arabs that practice it are in the main a vile people.

Now do you really want to know what I "think" about them?

only fan more hatred of America and more extremism in the Arab street...

Blah blah blah blah. No matter what we do, it just "enrages the Arab street." All that rage and anger can't be any good for their blood pressure. I say let's keep on enraging them until they drop dead from strokes and heart attacks.

"...They include U.S. support for both Israel and repressive Arab regimes, economic distress in Arab states and friction between modernity and traditional Islam."

He forgot the most important one -- Islam's 1,200-year convert-or-die hatred for Christians and Jews. Islam and it's apologists can deny it all they want, but it's right there in their own "scriptures."

They include U.S. support for both Israel and repressive Arab regimes

I'm sure I am out of touch, but what repressive Arab regimes are we supporting against the will of the people? It that were really a concern, our efforts against repressive regimes in Syria, Iran, and Iraq would be more appreciated.

"the image of the United States has suffered a major blow in the Middle East from a sense that Washington is ignoring the region's problems and targeting Muslim countries in the war on terrorism. "

Forgot about the Hindu terrorists. And the Zoroastrians, Buddhists, Confucian, and Shinto. What about the pagans, B'hai, and Taoist terrorists? We'd better get busy on all them before we focus on the Muslims. Might make the muslims mad at us.

This is a job for Norm Minetta! Fight terrorism without religious profiling.

There is so much to refute here. I'll just stick with the following:

"But the United States still hasn't proved that Saddam poses a threat to anyone other than his own people."

Anyone except Israel, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia... Have I left anyone out? I guess a knowledge of history or a regard for the truth is too much to expect from a band of ignorant psychopaths. These people wear bedsheets for heaven's sake. They smoke camel dung. Despair, my butt. When we return them to the Neolithic era, then we'll talk despair :)

This article highlights what is wrong with man-on-the-street, Mohammed Sixpacki, Arab opinion - It's stupid. They are mostly uneducated and ignorant, parroting the opinion their leaders force down their throats. It's like a whole subcontinent full of nothing but Democrat-voting special interest groups.

On a news program I saw an interview with an Arab pulled off the street in Saudi Arabia. He was naming what terrible things America had done to Muslims, and included Kosovo. When reminded that Americans were fighting for Muslims in Kosovo, he smirked and said "Well, that's not how it was told to me."

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