Tom, just as in any subculture there will be a renegade population. Within the Muslims the majority are peace loving people, but the Jihadists are the "renegade population" within the Muslim subculture. We Anglo-Saxons have our "Skinheads", who seem to think it is OK to shoot up a "church" full of peaceful worshiping Sikhs, just because they think the turbans on their heads makes them Jihadists...then the coward turns the gun on himself (with the end result appearing much as the cowardly "suicide bombers" achieve in their violent deeds).
To condemn ALL Muslim Brotherhood individuals is just as wrong as saying all blacks or all Hispanics or all Asians are despicable...or all Catholics or all Methodists or all Baptists or all MORMONS (get the hint there????).
I realize you're just taking a swipe at B.O.......just think you could easily have found a more appropriate manner in which to do so.
We should all be united in our efforts to get our respective governments to withdraw all our military, and perhaps all our diplomatic, personnel from Afghanistan and Iraq and Iran and everywhere else our "help" is NOT wanted...regardless of who is POTUS or how well we feel he has handled the job.
Bring our brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, fathers and mothers, all our loved ones home...ALL of them, then drop that wonderful "Bucket full of LIGHT" David so eloquently mentioned in another post, destroy the poppy fields and the offensive Jihadists in ONE act of overpowering power. Sure, Pakistan has nuclear capability....but if the world is united in this act, Pakistan would surely see the futility of retaliation. A WWIII might happen, but it would not be one like WWI and WWII with soldiers on the ground, it would be absolutely "remote-controlled". Drones, ICBM's, etc....if we really want to DEFEAT THEM, it's the only way.
On the other hand, we can just withdraw and let them have at each other as they have for milleniums....and not just in the middle east, all over the world. Isolationism???? Perhaps, but we're unwanted, we're sitting ducks, and we're squandering our best in the process of what we are doing now, which seems to be the very definition of insanity...."persisting in a repetitive act and expecting a different outcome".
I guess the ramifications of dropping that "bucket of light" are so significant that I'm more in favor of leaving them to go at each other, but the "hawk" in me sure does want some revenge :idea:
This REALLY IS a stupid war....but most are, aren't they?
Doug
Doug, Try reading first, I didn't say Muslims, I said "Muslim Brotherhood". And they are radical Muslims. Yes I did get the hint. BOLD!