| I don't think people flew into buildings for Oil or because of oil.
They flew into buildings because they felt there very way of life was being threatened. So they decided to do something about it. I don't really know how they could have expected us to not do anything about it.
Relatively speaking, I think there way of life is being threatened now more than ever. In that sense they have lost their battle. Ultimately it will not be the military that wins this "war" decisively. It will be a sweeping change among the people of the middle east. Westernization.
They opened the flood gates. I respect people's way of life, and I don't want to Westernize every person in the middle east. But as history has shown, long drawn out wars have a tendency to do just that. Turn enemy into citizen. |