To say that muslims are responsible for everything is obnoxious.
you can't blame a religion if a minority become extremists. Its very easy to sit here or anywhere in the world and say tht the muslims are barbaric people and this and that. The fact of the matter is that all over the muslim world, there is oppression and no democracy. No free will. And its not that people don't want it, but the dictators don't.
Also no one can imagine the plight of the people in palestine and the wretched conditions that exist. The people have no life there. So some have taken up arms and i won't blame them. Its for the majority to guide them if someone is going wrong. its easy to criticise sitting in a remote corner. having said that, i am not saying Israel is at fault. No one can tolerate terrorism.. and whats happening is that only. The fact is a peaceful settlement with both sides showing restraint is the way forward. But blowing oneself up or attacking and assassinating people won't help.. whoever does it.
Terror is no ones friend. many people say that india suffered terror attacks and no one helped... well whats big deal in that. U have to fight your own wars and your own battles. Get the facts right, America is fighting its own war. Don't chide yourself thinking its a global war or anything. With or without global support, america will go for the terrorists or those who want to harm its people. You can't blame them for that. Its the most natural thing that anyone will do.
I agree with nitnay, US is blamed whether it acts or even if it doesn't act. The prob is people tend to think that US is gonna fight for them. I guess this is the single most important reason you have all the problems. Why US is helping pakistan.. cos for US taliban is the threat.. not pakistan. (Ok one can argue that taliban is of pakis making but one thing is this.. with pakistan, here is one country US can exert the pressure. With dictator there US knows it has the control. thats not the case in afganistan) Why US attacked Iraq? cos saddam was working against US. No country would sit around if some people are planning to kill its people. US has the power today to act anywhere and thats what its doing.
In between US goes and does something good,, gives aid, or say fight in balkans..and some people start hoping... aha.. now they need to help us too..the prob is false hopes. The fact is US has NO obligation to fight others war. If it does, its either for themselves or maybe out of goodwill.
someone said they preach india restraint if we are attacked... hmm.. so what others should say.. go and attack? Seriously.. this is an hopeless argument. They preached restraint to US also.. or anywhere else... Its for that country to decide what it has to do. again the same thing.. people expect some one else will come and say.. "very bad.. go and finish xyz" ... no that never happens.
Let it be clear, India cannot attack pakistan and get outta it like US attacking Iraq. there must be no doubt that our military and the imbalance between us and pakistan is nowhere near as much so that we can do boom boom baam and think we won't be affected. let me tell you, if we had the kind of military superiority like US, we would have fought and attacked pakistan and finished it off once and for all in 99. And why us, had iraq got a good air power, US itself might have tht twice about attacking it.. see north korea.
Btw i found an interesting quote
But I was totally against the war on Iraq. There was no SHRED of evidence. It was just a personal vendetta of Bush against Saddam. Yes. He did a good thing by getting rid of Saddam, but see how many innocent people are dying there??? Under Saddam, if they did not show any resentment towards him, all Iraqis had a good life. They had 24 x 7 elecricity supply, good roads, water, everything. They were a relatively propsperous nation.
to say iraqis were living a good life under saddam is a preposterous idea. And it just highlights what people think and the kind of propaganda people and news channel do. anyone would be dragged from his home and killed.. whole families were killed. There was no free spech and you can't even say anything about saddam. His two sons were famous for raping.. you call that good life?? even a life of slave is better than a life of fear of being killed or gassed or tortured.
someone may say who the wize guy i am to know this,, well this wize guy can only say that i know lots of friends there and i know s5traight from them what they feel... and if you wanna know, then just pm albert on this board.. you won't make that kind of a statement ever again.
I unequivocally supported Iraq war. US did what was right. What i completely dissagreed was the charade they tried to pull off saying WMD's and all. I think world would have supported them had they just said the facts, that he is killer, tormenting his people. For the same reason i would support an invasion of North Korea too but for the right reasons of liberty.
Ok another point,, Iraq is suffering now... sure it is,, but by whom? America.. or are these freedom fighters fighting for iraq.. well they are foreign fighters and terrorist doing bloodshed there. No Iraqi wants its police to be killed. Who doesn't want democracy? On that point whats america doing wrong in trying to build tht nation? Ok they may want it to have favourable ties with them and have some of their companies in Iraq.. but so what? Didn't they fight for their independence. Didn't 2k US soldiers die for the cause. Isn't Us spending 1billion a day in Iraq? whatever one may feel, but right now the motive of US is democracy in Iraq... can anyone doubt that? for people to rule?
For whatever the motive, If Iraq is a success in becoming a democracy, we would have a revolution in arab world. And as people demand rights, the cruel dictators would go. And so would terror.(it won't go but the new recruits will)
Anyway point is just stop blaming US for everything. Remember every country is in it alone. same for Us same for UK same for Iran same for India. Every country has to fight its own problems. if others help.. well and good, if not.. well don't expect any.
