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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
If that was their top priority, they'd be blowing up the democrats (small d) in Iraq. It's not like there are that many of them. Getting a couple thousand Spaniards out of Iraq is pretty immaterial.
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I didn't say it was their top priority to get the Spanards out of Iraq. They were punishing spain as they said they would do to US allies. They were showing the world they are to be feared.
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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Then it wasn't an attempt to elect Socialists, but revenge against the offspring of Ferdinand and Isabella?
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You are confused. There are two separate issues that we were discussing and you are confused about this. The first issue was AQ's goals. The second issue was whether moderate Arab Muslims are likely to be impressed by what AQ has done in Spain. These are different issues.
AQ wants to punish US allies and show it is a force to be reckoned with and to achieve its long term goal of a world under islamic control.
Moderate Arab muslims have different goals, but still they feel anger and resentment at the west for things that happened centuries ago.
Get it?
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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Thank you for confirming that you are talking out of your ass about what moderate Muslims think.
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You are naive if you think moderate Arab muslims don't feel resentment about their lack of world power and blame the west for this.
