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Doc,
Because African middlemen were accessories after the fact and would have nothing to exploit without europeans and others going to Africa to begin with. I would agree that it doesn't dismiss the African middlemen's complicity.
During the Second World War, the Ukraines turned in Ukrainian Jews, the Czechs turned in Czech Jews and Jews fought for the Germans--so how does all that diminish or make different Hitler's Fascism and annihilation of the Jews.
You've made claims that "...certain Islamic groups (and they are not in the minority in many countries) would like to see us dead because we DON'T kill enough of our own people..." With this comment you've implied that the majority of Islamic groups in many countries are nothing but homicidal maniacs only interested in seeing the US murder it's own people. These types of comments are not only misleading but irresponsible. Your comment, and others on this thread suggest that a significant amount of crazed religious Arabs are aligned, organized, united and poised to kill every breathing American on Earth! Lol! Nothing could be further from the truth. You may not realize it but creating a threat and then providing the security is the oldest trick in the book--the mob calls it the Protection Racket.
According to Testimony Prepared for Hearings on Iraq Policy Senate Foreign Relations Committee, "...More significantly, the Iraqi regime's brutal treatment of its own population has generally not extended to international terrorist attacks. The State Department's own compilation of terrorist activity in its 2001 Patterns of Global Terrorism, released May 2002, does not document a single serious act of international terrorism by Iraq. Almost all references are either to political statements made or not made or hosting virtually defunct militant organizations...." http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0802-02.htm
How much do you know about Arabs, their religion, their culture or what countries they are from?
"...Arabs belong to many religions, including Islam, Christianity, Druze, Judaism and others..." "...Be careful to distinguish religion from culture. Although Arabs are connected by culture, they have different faiths. Common misperceptions are to think that Arab traditions are Islamic, or that Islam unifies all Arabs..." "...Only about 12 percent of Muslims worldwide are Arabs...."
"...Arab Americans trace their roots to many places, including parts or all of Algeria, Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen. Some Arabs are Israeli citizens...." http://www.freep.com/jobspage/arabs/index.htm. Did you know that Iranians are not Arabs and don't speak the same language? Did you happen to read Mr. Man's post?
And I keep saying this over and over and over again: Terrorism is being committed by many people all over the world but historically is not a weapon of the weak but rather overwhelmingly the strong. It is held to be weak because the strong control the doctrinal systems and their terror doesn't count as terror. American forces have bombed, attacked, occupied or organized armed subversion in more than a dozen countries: Nicaragua, Panama, Grenada, Haiti, Somalia, Sudan, Libya, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and the various states and fragments comprising the former Yugoslavia.
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