Kiruru wrote...
Now everyone is welcome to Fakku, but your way of perceiving Westerners are incorrect. Take a look at extremists killing innocent people everyday using suicidal bombs, guns, etc. in the name of Allah. As far as I know of US troops killing civilians, only paranoid fools are suspicous to people from the Middle East, hardly ever happens. Now tell me who are the mass murderers, extremists who conduct attacks on innocent civilians or Western soldiers trying to end the barbarians? Does protecting our country from attacks like 911 seem like an "Imperialist ambition" to you?
His way of perceiving westerners is incorrect because it isnt the cnn/your way. Your middle eastern extremist example really demonstrates how the whole war on terror rhetoric has been used to garner support for American military action. "It isnt imperialism, we are the good guys defending our nation from evil crazies. We need to go and suppress said evil crazies and then occupy the nation in order to uplift it to good old american democracy because they are currently barbarous in their terrorist extremist nature."
Americas use of "terrorism" is just a replacement for the communist threat of the cold war. In light of all the military action the US has taken since it became the superpower it is, his view really is quite understandable. The US has previously given power to dictators like chaing kai shek and Lee Kuan Yew because of their illogical fear of communism. They also pretty much caused the North/South Korea split with their UN military influx, not to mention the great attrocites in vietnam they rought in order to accomplish nothing and then leave, having Ho Chi Min take control of all of Nam a few years after.
Add in their activity in the middle east and can you honestly name another nation that has this poor of a post WWII military record? The US has, by an large, only brought more violence, destitude and problems through their foreign military action. Now I realize 911 was an horrendous incident but Americas recourse to it only further fueled the hatred of fundamentalist groups (not to mention it garnered the ire of most nonamericans), thereby increasing the likelyhood of future incidents. It has also fueled hatred and misunderstanding of Islam as a whole.
That being said, the fakku troop is a pretty cool dude and I have nothing against individuals within the military. The problem is the leadership behind it that has prompted these wars to happen over the years.
Edits for typos. They tend to happen on ranty late night posts like this and I always miss a couple =.=