posted on Oct, 17 2004 @ 03:14 PM
Originally posted by W_HAMILTON
I assumed Al-Zarqawi was part of Al'Qaeda anyway, darn those politicians for misleading me!
No, he hadn't been. He is, however, a fundamentalist and resented the US (a Christian nation in his eyes) coming in and taking over his country (in
his eyes, with the intent of destroying his religion.)
Although people keep trying to tell us rosy things about our successes there, the hard truth is that there are many things done there which seem
reasonable to us (using dogs to search houses) that are extremely offensive to them (the dog is an unclean animal and it's like sending in a person
fresh from cleaning the sewers to search your baby's room.) As the cultures clash, resentment grows.
He wasn't part of Al'Qaeda. We invaded Iraq because we wanted to get rid of that terrorist "haven," even though there was no link between
Iraq / Al'Qaeda. But now, terrorists are still there, and they are forging links with Al'Qaeda.
Exactly. And it's probably going to get worse. AlZaquawi is an influential man and with every US misstep (the soldiers REALLY need to be trained in
the culture and the language before being sent over there), more people will turn to him. Not so much because they support AlQuaeda, but because at
this point AlQuaeda is the strongest resistance force around and because they've struck several strong blows against the Western world.
If the situation were reversed; if Iraq had invaded the US and brought in all sorts of Iraqus who were trying to turn our country into a dictatorship
with the Muslim religion as the only true religion -- and banning our books and movies because they're offensive to the Iraqui culture, and the ONLY
strong and organized resistance was the American Library Association, wouldn't you be tempted to join up with the ALA to get rid of the Iraquis?
(yes, I know it's a silly example and the thought of terroist librarians running around with time stamps and bookmobiles, terrorizing things is a
little ridiculous... but I didn't want to use any of the more likely examples.)