Comments on: Egypt, America and a blow to al Qaeda

By: coyotle

coyotle — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 14:58:32 +0000

Inglorius, did the police not hose and beat African American teens for wanting to eat in the same diners as whites? Did some Americans not lynch black men through out the South just for being where blacks were not allowed? Do some of our local Christian religious leaders not preach to remove the infidel from our land? Isn’t it our Congress who blocked trying Muslim terror suspects on U.S.Territory? Many of whom were convicted by liars put on the witness stand by the same team of Federal Prosecutors who did the very same to the late Senator Stevens. Senator Stevens had his conviction overturned and 12 convicted Guantanamo detainees won new trials because of said misconduct. In my state such offenses carry up to a five year prison term. We should not judge a billion people because of the actions of some mobs.

By: Inglorius

Inglorius — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 23:51:48 +0000

The truth is Islam is never against independent religious freedom????? Sorry but the headlines every day say otherwise. Americans do not have an innate desire to hate Islam. But we see hatred preached by its Immams, and its foot soldiers come from Mosques and Madrasses.

When muslims are angered by cartoons, they march in the streets by the thousands, when inncocents are bombed in train stations in muslim and western countries, the same streets are silent. Islam is being judge by its actions, or lack there of.

By: Ismailtaimur

Ismailtaimur — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 08:38:21 +0000

I wonder what the fear mongers in West will imply on this. The truth is Islam is never against independent religious freedom .

By: pHenry

pHenry — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 06:33:20 +0000

JkSoo7x, James Bond? You put play and Holocaust in the same sentence and apparently agree that al Queda is just our chickens coming home to roost. But my realistic view of world events was formed on the ground, not on this or any other screen. Bashing (as you call it) is needed when riduculous statements are thrown out as answers. Please re-read those statements and tell me which you know to be right instead of wish.

I can tell you had good intentions when you requested my answer(s) for the problem(s) at hand. So try to wrap your head around this. Let’s bring all foreign troops, material, and resources home to America. Then get on FaceBook and express our deepest regrets for imposing ourselves on the unsuspecting world. Then clear our schedule for the next couple of days as the “world” comes begging to let bygones be bygones. I personally am tired of traveling the world with a target on my back-just for trying to help. Yes, there are lieing, cheating, thieving scum Eisenhower first refered to as the Military Industrialists. Take them out back and shoot’em. But don’t tell me and those I served with that US equals al Queda or FARC or Tamil Tigers or Red Army or Baader-Meinhof or PKK or my extremely personal favorites -Dev Sol. Thanks for the nightmares boys, I’m waking up and swimming home.

By: anonym0us

anonym0us — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 01:26:47 +0000

It doesn’t matter who drove the revolution. What matters is who benefits from it.
The Iranian revolution of 1979 was largely driven by young, well-shaven, secular, well-educated middle class city dwellers. Yet in the end the power fell into the hands of old bearded ayatollahs whose power base are uneducated rural poor.
Most of Tahrir crowd cared about democracy and economy, not religion. But come the elections, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) is the only organized political force, not counting current ruling party and official lap dog opposition who are totally discredited. And if Egypt buys MB, they’ll get al-Qaeda free.
After all, Hitler came to power in 1933 in a perfectly legal and democratic way. Need I remind what happened next?

By: hush

hush — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:29:23 +0000

Extremely well written piece, although I think that’s a given considering the author.

I hope you are right about the future of Egypt and the Arabs, but I fear you are wrong. While most citizens of Egypt are peaceful, freedom loving people, the same can be said about Iran and Turkey.

While Iran continues to languish in self imposed quarantine, and chooses to reject offers of friendship from credible, multicultural friends like India, Turkey seems to be bent on undoing 50 years of amazing progress and slipping back into extremism.

As an Indian Zoroastrian who has lived in and seen a large part of the ME, I may be biased.

By: JkS007x

JkS007x — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:15:02 +0000

@pHenry, I do not know why you wanted to play the Holocaust card by implication, if we follow your example, it is absurd. the Hebrews did nothing to provoke the Nazis, unlike the US.

Instead of bashing his ideas, do you have a better solution?

By: marknick

marknick — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 07:23:18 +0000

pHenry, you may be my new hero. Thanks for calling BS on the absusidty of OCTheo’s oddball rant in the context of this article. I was beignning to fear that it was I who had lost my mind and that OC and the “loons” were the new voice of sanity and reason.

By: pHenry

pHenry — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 06:11:45 +0000

While most comments fit into some clear camp of thought, OCTheo’s seems to be a square peg. How can it be said without a snicker that all that the US sends is weapons? Ridiculous!

Check out the red, white, and blue bundles of food, medicine and CASH floating all around the ME. I’m against most of it because of the widespread corruption. But to say weapons is it is more than inaccurate. It’s misleading.

OC, you imply that without the US there would be no al Queda. So I’m guessing that without Hebrews in Germany we would have never heard of Hitler. You sound like my 3rd grade teacher who chastised me for running in the hallway to get away from the evil villains chasing me. She said stop running and they can’t chase you. We all know how that turns out. Appeasement starts wars, whether in Austria or Kuwait.

So let’s get the Hebrews to move to Miami when the Cuban embargo is lifted. And let Chavez invade Columbia to finally rid ourselves of cocaine. Don’t forget to hand out the red, white, and blue tasers to the Quds Force quelling the Facebook terrorists in the streets of Tehran. Maybe you can talk Korea into a Rodney King reality show. “Can’t we all just get along?!” gimme a break

By: OCTheo

OCTheo — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 03:36:16 +0000

Whether Egypt is a “blow to Al Qaeda” or not, is irrelevant. What matters is that Al Qeda goes away totally, and that will only happen when United States stops erecting and supporting dictators that infringe on citizens right to life and liberty. Every regime in Middle East and North Africa is included, bare none. US sends them weapons, not food, not medicine, not infrastructure except if it benefits export of their raw materials to the West. This is the reason Al Qaeda exists and thrives. America does not build schools or institutions to help these countries develop on their own.

These dictators US calls its allies, are criminal regimes that torture their citizens and steal Billions out of these countries to deposit in the West, denying needed development. This is what fosters organizations like Al Qaeda.

Recently, the Supreme upheld a ruling that supporters of terrorist can be imprisoned for up to 15yrs. US government has held Iran as “State Terrorists”, meaning they support terrorists. Terrorism by definition includes anyone or nation state who encourages or directly help terrorism. It is reasonable to assume that the US government supports and encourages dictators who terrorize their citizens, with US donated weapons. That makes the US government a supporter of terrorism.

Al Qaeda and the likes of it, are products of US sponsored terrorism, which of course is non-chalantly referred by the US media as Foreign Aid. Whatever you name it, the result is dictatorship, and dictators stay in power not to bring good to the people. These dictators will not be in power without these weapons sent by the US government. These dictators anger their people, who in turn wants revenge on US citizens. This the real reason why “THEY hate US”, as US officials always like to say.

DO AMERICANS ever ask why US is Trillions of Dollars in debt, American schools are worsening, Millions are homeless, Veterans can’t get healthcare promised to them, Millions of Americans are jobless with no healthcare, and the US government still has Billions of Dollars in weapons (Foreign Aid) to send to other governments?

So it is clear to conclude that US government is the reason why US citizens are being terrorized. Until the Americans understand this, and confront their elected officials, Al Qaeda will always be the reason why war on terrorism will be an endless war. And that is what the war mongers in Washington wants. WAKE UP AMERICA, the enemy is at home with you. And they are fellow Americans you elected to office. Congress and the Military Industrial Capitalist are the enemy, not AL Qaeda.