Blade_Runner wrote:
Right, "Death to America!" is a Disney movie.
I know the phrase "Death to America" insults you to no end, but you have to get over your emotional reactions if you ever want to understand how complicated things work, right? I can recognize at least two separate mainstream objectives...
The religious objective really doesn't involve us - it involves them and the part of the world that they feel is home to Islam. The number of Christians slain by ISIS is minute compared to the number of Muslims slain by ISIS because it's not a war against Christians like the Islamophobes are making it out to be. It's a war to "clean their own house". Other than being particularly vicarious spectators, American Christians really aren't seen as playing an important role.
The political objective is the entire reason for the attacks on American targets. The political objective is to encourage western powers to cease their imperial control of the middle-east, which started right after WW1 under British and French mandates and shifted after WW2 to US and Israeli influence.
The two objectives are independent of each other but they have common touch points, such as the Islamic tradition that positions of political leadership should be reserved for those with faith in Islam. Most cultures have some kind of "native" clause. Think about how riled up conservatives got about Obama's birth credentials. Touch points like this create alliances at the strategic level. Of course if you follow the chain of command all the way down to the bottom, all aligned motives look like one single holy objective.
So if I am correct, American Islamophobes are actually trying to get involved in someone else's war. That's kind of sick.
interesting...
Of course "under-pressure" means we can't count on his words being the honest words of a true journalist, but that hardly matters... I think the threat is very real. This is one of the reasons why I wish more Americans would make the effort to expand beyond their current concerns, which often glosses over things like, the birth-rate deficit and the dirty bomb.
If my theories are true, all this Islamophobia is falling right into the plans of those political enemies to exploit those touch points with the religious war. If you zoom out a little... you might notice that the money usually comes from the political war and the numbers come from the religious war. This changes only as a result of ransom money, or any other kind of forceful extortion the children of poverty can muster in the religious war. High finance through the Caymans... that's the political war.
Ya know, Having an angle on this mess that you aren't familiar with doesn't nessesarily make me your enemy. I don't want some crazy religious nuts assaulting me and my family with nuclear weapons. I don't know much about you, but when people see me, they think "American" right away. They don't care what I actually think. It's not like they're going to interview me.
"Excuse me but uh, we only have... 2 minutes before this vest blows us to shreads, so... tell me about yourself."
Nah.