View Single Post
Old 04-17-2009, 09:40 PM  
Snake Doctor
I'm Lenny2 Bitch
 
Snake Doctor's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: On top of my soapbox
Posts: 13,449
Quote:
Originally Posted by WarChild View Post
They also hate the US because US foreign policy supports Israel and supplies money, aid and weapons that are used against Palestinians.
True, although I personally find it hard to believe that someone from Saudi Arabia was willing to commit suicide over the oppression of someone in Palestine. Especially considering no Arab country is willing to assimilate the Palestinian refugees.

BUT, you are correct in the hate by association over our support for Israel.

I know for me, personally, if the country I live in wasn't a superpower but was subject to the will of a superpower, and that other country launched missiles and dropped bombs on "terrorist targets" but accidentally hit the hospital where my wife worked or the school where my children were....strapping some c-4 to my chest and running into a crowded building in the country that killed my family is something I would probably consider.

If some superpower came and gave me and my countrymen weapons and training so that we could fight against our common enemy (the Soviets) but then abandoned us to starve after we'd done their dirty work, and stood idly by while the oppressive Taliban initiated a coup in my country, but put troops in my holy land to fight against another oppressive dictator, and did it this way because the latter country has oil and the former country doesn't...well I might just spend a decade planning ways to get even.
__________________
sig too big
Snake Doctor is offline   Share thread on Digg Share thread on Twitter Share thread on Reddit Share thread on Facebook Reply With Quote