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Interesting viewpoint that Ty won't like...
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Originally posted by Spanky
When Osama bin Laden issued his declaration of war against America in 1998, his two principal justifications for the jihad that exploded upon us on Sept. 11, 2001, centered on Iraq: America's alleged killing of more than 1 million Iraqis through the post-Gulf War sanctions and, even worse, the desecration of Islam's holiest cities of Mecca and Medina by the garrisoning of infidel U.S. soldiers in Saudi Arabia (as post-Gulf War protection from the continuing threat of invasion by Hussein).
The irony is that the overthrow of Hussein eliminated these two rallying cries: Iraqi sanctions were lifted and U.S. troops were withdrawn from the no-longer-threatened Saudi Arabia. But grievances cured are easily replaced. The jihadists wasted no time in finding new justifications for fury and reviving old ones.
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It takes a Krauthammerrian sort of hubris to argue that the jihadists should shut up now that Iraqis are dying from causes other than hunger and now that we have lots of troops occupying Iraq instead of relatively few stationed in Saudi Arabia. It's hard to imagine how Moslems might object to 600,000 dead Iraqis and an occupation that's run for several years and shows now sign of ending, eh? Hubris, or just massive obtuseness.
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