[lit-ideas] Re: A Movie [longish]

  • From: "Simon Ward" <sedward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:46:22 +0100

"If we never entered Iraq, maybe al Qaeda would be marginalized by now instead of empowered. Does that not matter to you?"

To generalise the point, it is how people are perceived that create a viewpoint for the other side.

Paul watches an hour of more of edited extracts about muslim fundamentalists. He now hates their guts and wants to kill them all. All we need to do to catch up is send the Muslim world a video of the Bill OReilly show.

Seriously, if the US and the UK invades Iraq on false pretences, initiates a civil war that kills up to a 100,000 people who wouldn't have died otherwise, does that explain at least partically why a large number of people in the muslim world hate the west?

How many would hate the west if Iraq hadn't been invaded? Less or more.

Simon




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