Bin Laden
I've had a near impossible time finding the full transcript of the Osama bin Laden video that recently came out. When I first read a transcript in a local paper, I was curious to know whether or not there was more material. A recent web search finally turned up the full version which I encourage you to read here. Apparently, the Washington Post has a full transcript as well.
It's convenient for us to call those who oppose us terrorists while we ignore the terror that we bring to parts of the world every day. The real question becomes one of who started the conflict first? Who infringed on the other's privacy, sovereignty, government, and society's way of life first? This is a complicated issue, and from all I can most of the arrows seem to point to the Arab/Israeli conflict--of which the U.S. plays a very partisan part. There is a strong, pro-Israel, Zionist movement in this country that needs to be understood, examined, and critiqued in a healthy way by the American public. The odd thing is that rarely, if ever, has the Israeli/Palestinian issue surfaced in this election cycle. In fact, by all accounts the Israeli issue has been squelched. I read an article recently that talked about how the Kerry website started banning any posts related to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict that were pro-Palestine.
Why is this country so staunchly supportive of Israel? Believe me, I have no animosity towards the Jewish people. I do, however, have a problem with a government who overwhelmingly condones and supplies another country with the weapons of war to elimate in a systematic way a particular group of people. What we tried to prevent in World War II and Bosnia is what we are now supporting in the Israeli governments daily attack upon the Palestinian people. Are the Palestinians blameless? Hardly. But do people deserve to have a land that they can call their own--with the legitimacy of the world community--absolutely.
You may not agree with bin Laden's tactics, but his analysis is fairly logical and insightful for those Americans who choose to blindly believe that whatever the U.S. does is purely "good" and that those who oppose us are simply "evil." The world, I'm afraid, is just too complex for that kind of analysis.
It's convenient for us to call those who oppose us terrorists while we ignore the terror that we bring to parts of the world every day. The real question becomes one of who started the conflict first? Who infringed on the other's privacy, sovereignty, government, and society's way of life first? This is a complicated issue, and from all I can most of the arrows seem to point to the Arab/Israeli conflict--of which the U.S. plays a very partisan part. There is a strong, pro-Israel, Zionist movement in this country that needs to be understood, examined, and critiqued in a healthy way by the American public. The odd thing is that rarely, if ever, has the Israeli/Palestinian issue surfaced in this election cycle. In fact, by all accounts the Israeli issue has been squelched. I read an article recently that talked about how the Kerry website started banning any posts related to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict that were pro-Palestine.
Why is this country so staunchly supportive of Israel? Believe me, I have no animosity towards the Jewish people. I do, however, have a problem with a government who overwhelmingly condones and supplies another country with the weapons of war to elimate in a systematic way a particular group of people. What we tried to prevent in World War II and Bosnia is what we are now supporting in the Israeli governments daily attack upon the Palestinian people. Are the Palestinians blameless? Hardly. But do people deserve to have a land that they can call their own--with the legitimacy of the world community--absolutely.
You may not agree with bin Laden's tactics, but his analysis is fairly logical and insightful for those Americans who choose to blindly believe that whatever the U.S. does is purely "good" and that those who oppose us are simply "evil." The world, I'm afraid, is just too complex for that kind of analysis.
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