THERE IS A REASON BIN LADEN IS SO DAMN POPULAR!
If you are starving to death and some one starts to feed you, your going to listen to what they might have to say, he wins their hearts and minds. What Senator Murry was saying is we have to fight Bin Laden for the hearts and minds of the illiterate masses of the world.
If we feed them the message they will hear will be a positive pro-american pro-western message, if Bin Laden feeds them the message they will hear is Death To America, Death To Israel.
She was not praising Bin Laden, she was explaining why people will crash planes into building for him!
Do you think people would follow Bin Laden if he didn't actually do anything for them?
If we feed them the message they will hear will be a positive pro-american pro-western message, if Bin Laden feeds them the message they will hear is Death To America, Death To Israel.
OBL offers his ignorant people blame, not food. Are you suggesting that OBL feeds every Arab that follows him? Every Arab that needs food is taken care of by bin Laden? He's wealthy, but he's no Bill Gates. I'm willing to bet the vast majority of his followers haven't seen a bread crumb from him. OBL offers his followers the same thing that the theocracies offer their people over there. A scapegoat. They don't want their people to see reality (Why are the leaders so damn rich and we're so damn poor?), they want to put all blame onto the shoulders of the U.S.A. When you run a stone-aged society, the easiest country to blame is the one that is out in the open on its own prosperity, freedom, and luxury. Us. The U.S.
Why should we feed them? Why should we be blackmailed? This is a very liberal view you are presenting, feeding the world so that they don't blow us up. This is the way to socialism, providing people with the means to survive without any sort of exchange, simply because they need it and demand it and will kill people if they don't get it.
I know what you are trying to say, and to some extent I agree with you. There is a reason OBL is popular, but it doesn't mean he's doing something right. It doesn't mean we should follow suit. He's evil, incarnate, and simply because the ignorant follow him doesn't mean he's got the right idea.
Would you explain where OBL is popular outside the Muslim world?
OBL is an individual. Why does Senator Murray compare our government to an individual?
They hate us because we're NOT Muslims! Period!!
We do feed them.
Where do people keep coming up with this notion that Bin Laden gives more than the U.S.? I don't understand. Certainly you know this. Why the post suggesting otherwise? What exactly is your point?
He's done nothing for anyone since his death over a year ago.
Tens of thousands more of his followers will join him in death.
Yep. That sure explains why 15 of the 19 9/11 killers came from Saudi Arabia, one of the wealthiest nations in the world.
This is the nature of a thought crime: You and Patty Murray don't get to interpret what Murray said. I do.
I find her guilty as charged. She gave aid and comfort to the enemy in a time of war, in a serial fashion, till she was caught.
You rightly should be flammed to hell and back for your ignorance.
The USA feeds millions of people every day, all around the world. Within the international aid community, Uncle Sam is actually referred to as "Uncle Sugar".
I know. I have several years experience working in famine relief programs, often involving the UN, usually in Africa.
To suggest (repeatedly, as it turns out) that OBL is popular because he helps people, and the USA is unpopular because it does not, IS JUST ABOUT THE MOST IGNORANT PIECE OF MINDLESS BULLSHIT, that I have ever heard spoken. Given the oceanic sesspool of that substance which eminates from the Left, it still astounds me.
Well you should be flamed to hell for attributing any validity to it whatsoever.
With all due respect to your opinion, which I happen to share, she screwed-up BIG TIME by adding the "America doesn't do that" part.
That is simply moronic and obviously wrong. She deserves to have her brains bashed-in (OK, OK, her empty skull) with that part of her comments. I hope we can use it to help defeat her. And any, and all initiatives she might attempt to take in the future BEFORE we defeat her.
That being said, I don't think she's "Anti-Western" for saying such...Just STUPID. Too stupid to hold public office. Much like Trent Lott was too stupid to lead our Senate Majority. (Not too "Racist" to lead, like the Race Huslters claim, too STUPID).
Merry Christmas.