Terrorists...

[i k a r i]

and Ikari... That' s not ridiculous.... Because Radiowaves didn' t wrote "Bush is a terrorist". He wrote "The West is the real terrorist". So, read their post again, and then post again.

I thought it was obvious he meant the country leaders, why would your spanish friend or any victim be called a terrorist 

[Becky]

Western and Northern forces should leave Middle East and Afghanistan alone and let them deal with their own problems.

Shame we caused most of their problems in the first place.

[LimpingFish]

The whole situation is a royal fuck-up. Take Afghanistan:

The Soviet Union occupies Afghanistan to support the marxist Afghan regime against the CIA-backed insurgent rebel forces, among whose number is a young Osama Bin Laden and the beginnings of what would evolve into al Qaeda. The rebel movement will eventually give birth to the Taliban government, who will, post 9/11, "harbour" Osama Bin Laden and his supporters and ultimately lead to the US invasion of Afghanistan and the downfall of said Taliban government.

That fact that the CIA helped the Taliban to power, giving rise to one of the harshest fundmentalist Islamic regimes in modern Afghanistan, only then to suffer US military losses in a bid to destroy it, is an indication of US/CIA involvment in the Middle-East as a whole.

Similar deal in Iraq. Countries such as France, Germany, Italy, the UK, and the US, sell to and build the means for Iraq to start stockpiling chemical-based weapons, the same "Weapons of Mass Destruction" the US would later invade Iraq over.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Until my friend becomes my enemy. Then my only friend is myself.

But to blame the current US government wholesale for the problems in the Middle-East is futile and pointless.