“The nose of the camel is now under the Greek tent.”
It’s Effing EVERYWHERE! WTF is going on? WHY is our Congress, and the REST of the WORLD so afraid of these people?
I mean, they’re BRUTAL, but do we not have tanks, bazookas, MOABS, nukes?
Take these effers OUT! DO IT! Yeesh!
> WTF is going on? <
I’m no expert. But as I see it, this is happening for two reasons.
1. Right after 9/11, George W. Bush told us “Islam is peace”. The tone was set. And so it was very easy for soft-headed liberals everywhere (US and abroad) to push the “poor, innocent Muslim” story.
2. Maybe a decade ago I was reading an article by an American who was living in Europe. He said that right after 9/11 Europeans would come up to him and say “We are all Americans now.” The was great support for the US, and outrage at the Muslim attacks.
Then Bush invaded Iraq, and the mood quickly changed. Most Europeans (according to this author) saw the Iraq war as an illegal war of aggression. Not a whole lot different from Hitler’s invasion of Poland. So now the Europeans saw the Muslims as victims in need of help, and not terrorists.
Do you see what’s common to points 1 and 2?
The stupidity of George W. Bush.