Send 40 million Bush inauguration money to tsunami victims

Bear is just being obtuse Tico. Obviously you were referring the terrorist scum killing hostages by decapitation in front of a video camera. I am sure Bear understood that, but chose to demonstrate his usual methodology instead.

Americans are far superior than the terrorists in so many ways.

When you stop talking past each other you will realize that BPB is talking about the well known training of our military to cut enemy throats to not only kill them, but to prevent them from screaming and revealing their location (the silent death) in combat. Tico is talking about filmed or not filmed executions of helpless prisoners (mostly non-combatants) having their heads completely cut off for political and PR reasons.

There is a difference.

BBB

Brandon9000 wrote:

Being nice and trying to develop rapport with people often works, but sometimes it doesn't. You appear to be attempting to deny the existence of evil.

Evil.
That's so Austin Powers and Star Wars.
...and Bush.

There are many kinds of people in the world, and from my experience as both a teacher and as a crisis worker with at risk youth (aka evil teens), said attribute 9 times out of 10 is a response to the inputs the individual has acquired over the term of their life.

I'm taking a step way back in some of my inquiries to the incidents that make an individual evil.

Does it not make sense to you that 21st century anti-Americanism is a response to years of American abuses, American cultural infiltration etc etc.?

Yes, a person who is evil is evil because of some combination of nature and nurture, but when you get a national ruler who invades his neighbors and executes their previous governments just because he wants the.....

I guess if you want me to capitulate that there is in fact "evil", I will do so. I just find that word difficult to incorporate into my secularist vocabulary. To me, it has religious connotations that I normally don't distinguish, and I prefer to talk of good vs bad, rather than good vs evil.
nevertheless.

Bolded type sounds an awful lot like someone I know....

candidone1 wrote:

Does it not make sense to you that 21st century anti-Americanism is a response to years of American abuses, American cultural infiltration etc etc.?

Brandon9000 wrote:

What rot. It is attributable to all sorts of things. In his manifesto, published shortly after 9/11, Osama bin Laden states that one of their primary grievances against us is that we refuse to convert to Islam. I suppose Pearl Harbor was due to our cruelty to Japan. I think you are irretrievable and only hope that not many people pay attention to your views.

Rot? Great way to describe a differing opinion.

I agree that al Qaeda has many grievances against the US...but I was not isolating my anti-American reference solely to his terrorist network's mainfesto.
Anti-Americanism is a direct result of either economic or imperialist foreign policies enacted strictly by American self-interest...and it's not restricted to the non-Israeli Arab world.
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I can assure you that it's not my views that will influence people as much as the past, present and future behaviors of the US will vis a vis anti-Americanism.

I agree that al Qaeda has many grievances against the US...

the only reason bush needs so much security is because he is one huge dumbass and people want to shoot him dead.

Though one might say that it's Bush's own policies which have led to the need for extra security?

Cycloptichorn

the only reason bush needs so much security is because he is one huge dumbass and people want to shoot him dead.

Brandon, I would add to your comment that there are many serious dangers to protect against, such as airplane hijackings, that the world does need to be protected from powerful dumb asses where ever they lurk.