In Reply to: Re: Can you tell us more? posted by Alan on September 24, 2003 at 08:15:47:
Yes, exactly and I am all for getting out of Saudi Arabia completely. For the first time, when the focus was on that region, did I learn that the U.S. troops were there to protect THEM from Hussein!!!! Aaaarrrggghhh. That makes me mad. Once Hussein and his troops were no longer a threat, our troops left. We were protecting one terrorist regime from another? Now that's a waste of money.
Not only are we there, but they are HERE and teaching THAT rhetoric and blatant hate-filled religion on our campuses and in our cities. How do we justify that? It boils down to our supposed concerns for freedoms of others to the point that we are cutting our own throats. There is something wrong in this picture and I wonder if anyone else can see it and please, don't say GWB - for heaven's sake.
I'm all for being an isolationist, no more politics as usual - no more "You do this for me and I'll do that for you" - well, here I go into politics, I better quit it as I just asked someone to start an academic discussion and I'm yapping away on the spiritual board. Sigh.