From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Mon Jan 20 2003 - 01:53:23 MST
Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
> Well, as you probably know, this behavior of our Canadian friends saved
> them some grief during the Vietnam War, and the Ayatollah takeover in
> Iran : "We're not Americans, we're Canadians." Frankly, by lying,
> Americans who called themselves Canadians, saved themselves a lot of
> grief too. As this war against Islamic Militancy heats up, I suspect
> your contention that the Muslims will become uniformly, and openly
> anti-Western, may come to pass. This is what I suspect most Europeans
> think and why they are against American retaliation. "You're fucking-up"
> our business relations with the Middle Easterners.."
If they believed your own highly inflammatory anti-Islamic
rhetoric represented the political opinion of the West
generally, then the certainly would turn anti-Western -- in self
defense. Disowning an entire major religious group (the largest
one) and its adherents and cultures outright and declaring them
en masse "the enemy" is a very ugly thing as I am sure you are
quite aware of.
- samantha
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