You're going to have to excuse me, but I can't see any differences in the Puritans and Christian Coalition, insofar as the way they would run a government.
And you are only thinking of Iraq. World terrorism is not about Iraq.
Oh, trust me, the Puritans would consider Pat Robertson a pinko commie liberal.
We had military and business in the Middle East long before the Iraq Fiasco, so, no I'm not thinking just of Iraq.
Lemme put it like this. Joe Islamic Extremist sees his traditional way of life being consumed by Western capitalism. His mosque is surrounded by McDonalds, Old Navy, and Starbucks. The women have forgone their burqas in favor of Levis. And this pisses him the hell right off. On top of that, his government is being run by rich slobs who claim to be pious followers of Muhammed, but he sees that they prostrate themselves before the oil companies. It doesn't help that these are all gazillionaires while JIE makes substantially less than US minimum wage.
So, he resorts to suicide bombings in the hope that Starbucks will get tired of rebuilding store after store and move along. On a larger scale, they hope to get the US tired of the whole thing and withdraw from the region, which will make the indolent sheiks easy targets.
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And you are only thinking of Iraq. World terrorism is not about Iraq.
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We had military and business in the Middle East long before the Iraq Fiasco, so, no I'm not thinking just of Iraq.
Lemme put it like this. Joe Islamic Extremist sees his traditional way of life being consumed by Western capitalism. His mosque is surrounded by McDonalds, Old Navy, and Starbucks. The women have forgone their burqas in favor of Levis. And this pisses him the hell right off. On top of that, his government is being run by rich slobs who claim to be pious followers of Muhammed, but he sees that they prostrate themselves before the oil companies. It doesn't help that these are all gazillionaires while JIE makes substantially less than US minimum wage.
So, he resorts to suicide bombings in the hope that Starbucks will get tired of rebuilding store after store and move along. On a larger scale, they hope to get the US tired of the whole thing and withdraw from the region, which will make the indolent sheiks easy targets.