On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 04:12:55 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
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WHY DO THEY HATE US?

I know I shouldn't take the bait, but:

That's the same feeling I had when McNicoll initially dangled his
Churchill bait.

Yours is a meaningless question at this stage. The time to ask (or answer)
that question -- even if one found any validity in it -- has long since
past.

Bill Maher indicated that he offered his suggestion for the "WHY DO
THEY HATE US?" memorial during the time decisions were being formed
for what to erect on the site in place of the former WTC towers.

Here are the cold, hard facts: They hate us. They want to kill us. They
have killed us.

Um... It's even worse than that. "They" are schooling their progeny
in becoming human bombs. That coupled with the million annual illegal
emigrants entering through our southern border is a prescription for
terror beyond anything we have yet known in this country. So what
does the Bush administration do? It continues to fail to interdict
those illegal emigrants, and it launches a duplicitous attack against
Iraq!

Once they crossed that line, the validity of your question evaporated.

Let me see if my understanding of that statement is accurate. You are
saying, that once the terrorist acts were committed, it became invalid
to ask the underling reason for them?

There is no longer any reason to ponder -- or care -- *why* they hate us,
for all of our energies must now be focused entirely upon rooting out and
destroying them, wherever they live.

I find such a shortsighted attitude tantamount to head-in-sand
thinking at best. They can breed faster than you can destroy them.
If we are to ever again enjoy peace in this country, the cause must be
attacked, as well as the symptom.

If the true cause of the enmity toward the US could be discovered,
perhaps that information could be used to modify US behavior and thus
prevent additional Islamic terrorist acts against the US as well as
those of others whom our nation's actions may provoke in the future.

Here's an example. I was recently told that the US deposed the
constitutional monarchy government of Iran, and put the Shah in
power*. I don't know if that is true, but assuming it may be
accurate, how would you feel if baby Bush were deposed by foreign
government operatives, and a repressive dictatorship were to reign
over the US? Would it anger you to the point of taking retaliatory
action?

I, for one, prefer not to wait until they come to our house again.

So what are you doing instead of waiting? :-)

Actively taking steps to bring justice to those who perpetrated the
terrorist acts of September 11, 2001 seems appropriate. But from what
I've seen in the news media, that has nothing to do with waging war in
Iraq.

In addition to waiting for the next terrorist attack, we could make
the current administration aware of the fact that we feel squandering
our future generations' wealth in Iraq is abuse of power. But that
would require removing our collective heads from the sand and
examining the facts.

Bottom line: Wringing your hands wondering *why* a murderer has just killed
your family is probably not productive.

It's not productive UNLESS it provides information that can be used to
preempt subsequent attacks.

Making sure it doesn't happen to the rest of your family is...

Don't get me wrong. I believe bringing Osama to justice is the right
thing to do. Whether his cause is just or not, his means are a
barbaric abomination.

But squandering trillions of dollars of our childrens' earnings in
Iraq isn't going to stop terrorist attacks against the US. I see it
as an audacious, opportunistic manipulation by the GOP to further a
greedy agenda. It has further alienated world opinion toward the US
at a time when it already had fears of the world's ONLY superpower's
future intentions.

Perhaps if we can understand why "they" hate us, we can prevent our
government from provoking further terrorist acts.


Isn't the real reason we choose not to answer the question, "WHY DO
THEY HATE US?, because we fear what we may find upon self examination
was committed in our collective name?



* http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CI...n_CIAHits.html