Originally Posted by Rochard

How do we support their oppression? By giving them weapons to defeat the Soviets? By giving them billions for their oil?

Don't tell me that the Middle East lives in a world where they tolerate each other. Their entire world is divided on these lines. Just this morning on the radio I was listened to a report on this exact topic where they looked into seeing if the Western press makes this divide much bigger than it is. The funny thing is while the local population said it's not an issue, but yet when they talked to one group they couldn't find someone from the other group.

And don't tell me Christians live peacefully in the Middle East. Not too long ago they were having gun battles in Egypt - Christians being shot outside of their church and the police doing nothing to stop them. Funny because I don't recall Methodists packing heat shooting Christians or even Christians shooting Muslims here in the US.