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Quote by: rmnunez There aren't a quarter million people in Iraq who are active in or supporting the insurgency. |
Well there's apparently sufficient numbers to have brought us to the point where we are now, rm. And like I said, now we have to start factoring in the growing numbers of competing militias.
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Quote by: rmnunez The Dalai Lama's wise perspective contradict many in the critical left suggesting terrorism has to do with US foreign policy. |
I'm a longtime fan to the Dalai Lama, rm, but my comment of "that's nice" was meant to be dismissive. His observation was flip, self-serving and unrealistic. As bin Laden himself said, if this was simply about jealousy, they'd be attacking Sweden too.
Terrorism is, at bottom, the one effective tool** against the perceived abuses of super-power imperialism, and please don't make the mistake of defining imperialism in 19th century terms. It's the U.S. using globalism (both the reality and the policy) to impose our military, economic and political will, through our network of defacto client regimes, on parts of the world that may not want us.
Indeed, maybe they don't want us because they're jealous, but that doesn't change the fact that we're there.
**I don't necessarily agree that it's their one effective tool. Personally I believe the Gandhi/ MKL/Aquino model of resistance would work far better... at least against oppressors who, at heart, represent benevolent democratic societies.
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