Our Impending War with Islamic Countries

YJ.I always apperciate your views based on objectivity.Religion has caused more bloodshed than any other ideology or 'ism' in this world.There two basic problems with all religions:one,cryptic and metaphorical text of the scriptures;two,a beleif that only true religion is the one which I follow.The first one leaves every scripture open to various interpretations,sometimes contradictory and conflicting.The second one is more dangerous.It drives followers to warpath,to establish supremacy of their faith.Faith is purely a matter between man and his Creator,call it God or Allah or Brahama.Then there is chain of prophets,each one with a different revealed message,different commandments and forms of worship to confound the confusion.

Use of religion for political purposes defeated the very purpose religions were created for.Now what we find is ostentatious display of fake religiosity,form without content.Muslim kings and dictators and rulers used religion to further their own agenda.What Marx said centuries later,religion is opiate for the masses,They knew it without saying.Now rulers,professing any faith,use religion to deflect attention of the masses from real issues,burning problem.To supress mass progressive movements,religion is used as most effective tool.Rise of all sorts of fundamentalism is result of that.Islam in danger,more Jesus less government,conspiracy to subjugate Hinduism kind of slogans are latest examples.Yet we have to realize that religions are for men,men are not for religions.Whose survival is at stake?

In what war are we fighting a Islamic nation. We are not at war with Iraq. We are not at war with Afghanistan. We are not at war with any nation. Both wars are in defense of nations right to self determination. In both wars we are fighting extremism and totalitarianism that denies individual rights and freedoms. If we were fighting Islamic Nations the goal would be to eradicate Islam. Our intention and those of the UN is not anti-Islamic. Iraq remains an Islamic State. Afghanistan remains an Islamic State. Both supported by the world in their effort to sustain democratic freedoms. Those who claim their terrorist/authoritarian actions are in defense of Islam are usurping both the religion and the peoples religious belief to perpetuate an aggressive and violent negation of individual rights and freedoms.

I also must disagree with the stated premise upon which this article seems to be based ( as stated again below )

"Right now, America is waging a 'cold war' with Islamic nations. i suppose we started it by supporting Israel and confirmed it with Afghanistan and Iraq. Islamic countries are poised against America. They hate us and will do everything in their power to destroy us."

First, the U.S. not at war with Islam or any Islamic nation. Support for Israel doesn't mean we don't also support Islamic Nations.

Afghanistan and Iraq had nothing to do with them being Arab or Islamic. It was issue's of nation security in that region.

Islamic countries, several which are allies or allied with the U.S. aren't specifically poised against America national security interest.

This discussion of 'hate' is an abstract and undefined emotion in the context of national security. You could argue some Americans hate America, or N. Korea hates So. Korea and America. It means nothing without policy and action as in Al Qaeda hates America_not Islam hates America

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Alqaeda doesn't represent even a small percentage of Muslims,what Alqaeda represents is anti-American feelings.Since Osama bin Laden was a creation of an empire.How he was indoctrinated is past,and thus irrelavant.But Osama,a lunkheaded idiot like Saudi monarchs,never thought that by bringing in religion against atheist Russians,he will lose sympathies of all those who hated,and till date hate,American empire cutting across all national boundries,faiths ect.Secondly,it didn't occur to his mind that what were real motives of saudis behind this newly found love for Afghans.Afghans were not neo-Muslims,whose conversion to Islam took place as soon as Soviet troops landed in Afghanistan.Saudi Arabia with her coffers full with petrodollars never came forward to help improvished Afghans.Why this all-at-sudden change of Saudi hearts(as they have no minds)?He never took pains to read writing on the wall.Rest is known history.American-Saudi version and progressive version,former appeals to bellicose cahuvinism,later to reason.

Osama bin Laden said, "“We love death. The US loves life. That is the difference between us two.” It is a profound difference. The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 had put the Kingdom and its ruling House of Saud at risk. The world's most valuable oil fields were within easy striking distance of Iraqi forces in Kuwait, and Saddam's call to pan-Arab/Islamism could potentially rally internal dissent.In the face of a seemingly massive Iraqi military presence, Saudi Arabia's own forces were well armed but far outnumbered. Bin Laden offered the services of his mujahideen to King Fahd to protect Saudi Arabia from the Iraqi army. The Saudi monarch refused bin Laden's offer, opting instead to allow U.S. and allied forces to deploy troops into Saudi territory.[75] The deployment angered Bin Laden, as he believed the presence of foreign troops in the "land of the two mosques" (Mecca and Medina) profaned sacred soil. After speaking publicly against the Saudi government for harboring American troops, he was banished and forced to live in exile in Sudan. ... This is the root of Osama bin Laden's anti-Americanism. American help rather than his. An American base instead of his. So obsessed he even named his militant organization The Base [al-Qaeda].

"He(Gen.Douglas MacArthur) described the difference between the attitude towards death of Westerners and Orientals.We hate to die;only face danger out of sense of duty and through moral issues;whereas with Orientals,life begins with death.They die quitely,folding their arms as a dove folding his wings,relaxing and dying."-Memoirs by Harry S.Truman,volume 2.