Wow, a real debate. Shame it is not about the best Lambo.
I am ex military ( RAF). I was in Aden at the age of 17, theoretically too young to be in a war zone so they made me peel potatoes until I was 18, ( then I was allowed to get killed !)
Now don´t get this wrong as I did know some ( very few) nice Arabs, however if you think that some of the head chopping now is bad !
I will tell of just one incident I personally was witness to. ( There were many many more over my 18 month period )
Army partrol sent out at night (Scottish but not black watch ) to cut a long story short we were also on patrol, we were asked to go to a point where one of the army´s guys had gone missing.
We found him, crucified against a shop door, his stomach had been removed and placed around his neck, his balls were in his mouth and they had set fire to him. He was alive when we got to him. We shot him dead. ( his family were told he was shot by the enemy in action.
We lost in Aden, just as the US did in Vietnam ( By the way I was on one of the last C130´s out of Saigong picking up british passport holders ), sure we called it a tactical withdrawl, back in the 60´s there was no al quieda just Arabs that hated the west, the same feeling is there now.
Bush will NOT win in Iraq, quite likely he will now blame Jordan and Iran for harboring terrorists and order troops in there, hence WW3
What he should do if he had any sense is to sort out the Palestinian problem with Israel and let Palestine havve their land and way of life back.
The US has no real history of war, yet it has the most powerful country in the world, why ?
IMO because millions of Europeans fought for democracy for centuries before the US was even thought of, did not want to help in WW2 until Pearl Harbour, and certainly has not offered to help any other european ally that I can think of since there history began ( relativley speaking, 2 and a half minuites ago )
Not that we do not like you guys but IMHO your leader is the most dangerous threat to mankind we have seen since WW2.
OIL OIL OIL OIL OIL = power
Now I expect I will be banned !!