and meanwhile, my friends, the ones who're going to crash planes on your buildings, try to nuke you, and spend every millisecond of their existence contemplating how to wipe you off the face of the planet, are the arab terrorists, not sharon. in all likelihood, sharon will be replaced in the next israeli elections, whenever that is, by benjamin netanyahu, who is a growing power in the right party in that country. once that happens, all the terrorists and hippies won't be able to hide behind the saying "sharon is a monster" anymore. and then we shall all see who's the true evil. as if we don't already know. i also assume that by then there will be quite a few more terrorist acts of epic proportions, and trust me, NONE OF THEM will be done by the israelis.
You should all read Paul Berman's article in the NY TImes today. An excerpt: "The war in Iraq may end up going well or catastrophically, but either way, this war has always been central to the broader war on terror. That is because terror has never been a matter of a few hundred crazies who could be rounded up by the police and special forces. Terror grows out of something larger â an enormous wave of political extremism. The wave began to swell some 25 years ago and by now has swept across a big swath of the Muslim world. The wave is not a single thing. It consists of several movements or currents, which are entirely recognizable. These movements draw on four tenets: a belief in a paranoid conspiracy theory, according to which cosmically evil Jews, Masons, Crusaders and Westerners are plotting to annihilate Islam or subjugate the Arab people; a belief in the need to wage apocalyptic war against the cosmic conspiracy; an expectation that, post-apocalypse, the Islamic caliphate of ancient times will re-emerge as a utopian new society; and a belief that, meanwhile, death is good, and should be loved and revered. A quarter century ago, some of the extremist movements pictured the coming utopia in a somewhat secular light, and others in a theocratic light. These differences, plus a few other quarrels, led to hatred and even war, like the one between Iran and Iraq. The visible rivalries left an impression in some people's minds that nothing tied together these sundry movements. American foreign policy acted on that impression, and tried to play the movements against one another, and backed every non-apocalyptic dictator who promised to keep the extremists under control. The American policy was cynical and cruel. It did nothing to prevent those sundry movements and dictators from committing murders on a gigantic scale."
if this is true, then for the third time how come other western countries dont have a problem with terrorists, only usa and israel?