‘Our Country Is in Trouble’

Good read. For people interested in getting beyond the propaganda, this is merely a fraction of what educated people on the subject already know. It is just so disheartening that the majority of people accept the "they just hate us because we have better lives than them" line.

I don't disagree, necessarily, with what Mr. Sheuer says, but he makes only one valid point with regard to a solution: education. While I agree this is a necessity to deal with the problem, it is by no means the "answer". Take each of the six points Bin Laden gives for his anger toward the west and ask yourself if you would give an inch on any of them. Point 1.) Support for Isreal. This is one of the only true functioning democracies in the area. We, in my opinion, have to support freedom wherever it lives. Point 2 & 3.) Presence on the Arabian peninsula and other Islamic countries. Our presence is needed in these countries not only to protect our financial interests, like oil, but also to be sure these militant islamic regimes don't go completely unchecked. Don't get me wrong, I think Bush is a complete idiot, but the truth of the matter is that without being able to aquire cheap oil, our economy would take a massive hit that would be very difficult to weather in a globally competetive marketplace. Point 4.) Support of foreign states that opress muslims. I disagree with this. We "deal" not support states that do not agree with muslim mentality if and only if it benefits us financially. Look at Kosovo, for example. Did we support them? Point 5. & 6.) Keeping oil prices artificially low and supporting regimes that do. First of all, Everyone wants to buy the things they need for as little as they can, and sellers try to sell their goods for as much as they can get. thats basic economics. The only reason oil is sold to us at the current price is that the sellers also need goods and services we privide. It is a symbiotic relationship. The answer, in my opinion, is two fold. 1.) Strain them any way we can financially. This is something we are currently doing, and should continue for as long as it takes. Finacially strangle any person, country, or organization who supports the extreme militant muslim cause and ideology, period. No tolerance. 2.) Embrace the liberal and rational muslim population. Let them know we will fight for their right to worship peacefully as they choose. We can only defeat this enemy from within. This cause is driven by ideology, and can only be defeated by it. Has history taught our leaders nothing?

Mr. Scheuer is correct. Our unilateral support of Isreal is the main problem. We have become The United States of Isreal. Isreal owns this and previous administrations. Isreal owns our congress. Our international relations are completely held hostege by our relationship with Isreal. We support Isreal with billions of dollars in aid, advanced weaponry and intelligence and they haven't put one soilder on the ground in Iraq or Afghanistan. How does a country the size of Honduras (approx. 7 million pop.) come to control the foreign policy of the greatest country on earth? How does one-tenth of one percent of the world's population acquire hundreds of nuclear weapons? No matter what George Bush says about the war on terror, the Iraq war is about protecting Isreal. Period. Does anyone remeber Saddam sending scud missils into Isreal in Gulf war? Isreal has wanted the U.S. to take out Iraq, Iran, Syria et al ever since. Isreal has become the yoke around our neck when it comes to international relations. Unfortunately, I do not see this changing

Abdullahsalahudin bin Jumaal, when you blow yourself up in the name of ISLAM, you will not end up in paradise with 72 virgins. You will go straight to HELL and Satan will be standing there laughing at you for believing the LIE that ISLAM is !!! ALLAH is a Moon god, ALLAH is a FALSE god, ALLAH is SATAN, and your entire religion is demonically based. WAKE UP ! Get on the winning side ! Or else, you will LOSE in the end !

B123 proves the point:Who made the USA responsable for other countries religions ie:"You can worship who you please, as long as you do it our way ,or else" New Forgin policy, we pay for in life and country and leaves us drowing in debt. This is the right direction, when your own country suffers with every word? Religion is a small part, of what we tell who, how, to live there lives, as W.e A.re R.ight? Not God, if he realy knew we use his name for a reason to kill millions? He would be pissed off big time, Is the way i was taught!!

Get a clue people ! This is a SPIRITUAL war ! Islam vs. Christianity. It is as simple as that. It has nothing to do with oil prices or American forces being on Muslim soil. If the USA pulled ALL troops out of the Middle East today, ISLAM would still want to kill us. WAKE UP PEOPLE ! ISLAM wants to DOMINATE the world. Islam does NOT want anyone to worship freely or have a free society. ISLAM wants the world to be controlled by Sharia law ! LISTEN ! ALLAH is NOT god ! The Muslims do not worship or pray to the same GOD of the universe that non-Muslims do. Here's the good news - ISLAM will be defeated in the end ! It's only a matter of time !

Not a canidate that is talking about this ? there is one that has been talking about this for over a year but the main stream liberal media refuses to let him talk or give him any air time because they are run by the liberal jews . that canidate is RON PAUL. . iF THIS COUNTRY DOSEN'T WAKE ITS ASS UP THE 3RD WORLD WAR HAS STARTED AND WE ARE BEING LIED TO BY THE LIKES OF HITLERLY AND MC cain

Does anyone care to take a sensible investigation of the basic theology of Islam (before the international relations blunders of either side) and ask what the foreign policy of the actual religion really is? I find it absurd for any pundit or policy maker to assume that this fight will be won on the crux of a change in American foreign policy, although in moral principle I can sympathize with the call for those changes to be made. The publicly unstated fact to-date is that this is an ideological war that is not caused by bad foreign policy, but is in fact further enraged by bad foreign policy. But nobody wants to say it because even fewer these days can distinguish the difference between insulting an idea/religion and insulting a person, and that thanks to the unbridled advance of the hallowed ideals of political correctness. The statements given by Michael Scheuer lend credence to the fact that education does not snuff out the "myth of religion", as he has shed light on the highly educated cadre of the new gaurd of al-Qaeda (a number of them Ivy Leaguers, à la Arab princes). Set that up alongside the sweeping proliferation of Islam across what many had once assumed to be the stable, religion-purged secular societies of Western European WHITE PEOPLE (where I live, by the way) who for no personal political reason somehow become sympathetic out of nowhere to terrorism, and there's no way you can prove to me that this conflict is the result of ONLY American foreign policy and lack of universal enlightenment.

Scheuer is right in stating that a spineless American government has failed to call it what it really is: that in it's most basic form, Islam is a religion whose fundamental theology contains a foreign policy that is unwilling to acknowledge the most basic of human dignities given by God--that a human being has a innate hard-wired granted liberty to choose regardless of the moral consequences of that choice, provided that choice does not infringe upon that same right of another human being; and that only God himself has the right to carry out his own judgement where eternity is concerned. However, acknowledging that this planet does not and never will have the capacity to function on a plane of justice other than evil for evil, I am forced to subscribe to whatever foreign policy that will protect the American people, any other people, and and their respective borders from such a tyranny of theo-anthropological falsehood until Islam experiences a shift of its own foreign policy. Now, ask me if that will happen...