From: Randall Randall (wolfkin@freedomspace.net)
Date: Tue Jan 21 2003 - 11:20:36 MST
Dehede011@aol.com wrote:
> A group of those folks have been attacking us the past ten years.
> Sadaam himself first started killing Americans with out right military
> attacks roughly 20 years ago. The only reasons they have given that make any
> sense to me is that we are an influence in a region where they want to be top
> dog and hence they want us out.
That's an interesting way to put the sentiment. Do you realize that the
exact phrase could be used to describe the way British colonists in the
Americas felt about British troops being quartered in their homes? After
all, the only real complaint they had was British 'influence in a region
where they want[ed] to be top dog'.
I think some Middle Eastern folks might use the term 'army of occupation'
to describe what you are referring to as 'influence'.
-- Randall Randall <randall@randallsquared.com> "[The] poetic justice of cause and effect compels respect, compassion." -- Faithless, God is a DJ.
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