@politically-wrong,
Originally stated by Crito View Post
Jihad is just their word for crusade, which the US media is avoiding like the plague. Perhaps that's because compared to atrocities like the Inquisition, cutting off a few heads doesn't seem so radical. At least they aren't trying to torture the devil out of them first.
The propaganda machine also doesn't want Americans to know the source of radical Islam was the Ottoman Empire, the remnants of which is modern day Turkey, a US ally. So I'm afraid the outrage seems somewhat two-faced to me, as our government is clearly playing both sides of the fence.
Being "two-faced" is what we do so well. We're allies with Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Egypt....don't you think that they are playing both sides of the fence...it's in their best interest....but stupid America only sees the immediate benefits of such "tenuous" relationships...and doesn't see the contempt all these "allies" have for America, the real great Satan. When the American people decide to take back the government from the evil, self-serving hierarchy, who would sell them out, and does, routinely...and sends them into a battle which, like Vietnam, cannot be won, while telling its' people that it is making progress, only then will America be great again.