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Re: Foolish short-sighted US foreign policy...

By: monkeytrots in CONSTITUTION | Recommend this post (0)
Sat, 23 Jul 11 6:18 AM | 45 view(s)
Boardmark this board | Constitutional Corner 		Msg. 13998 of 21975
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designed to emphasize and encourage violent jihad.

Due - chuckling a little - it's all in the words and how each individual perceives them. You find the above to be worse than saying we 'taught jihad/jihaad' - and
I find it to be a far more acceptable statement describing the 'truth' - perhaps because I believe the statement above to be not only accurate - but also precise.

I also think the above statement can also NOT be misunderstood/twisted/spun as is so easily done (and HAS been done) with the simplistic 'we taught jihad to the muslims'.

Interesting.




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Re: Foolish short-sighted US foreign policy...
By: DueDillinger in CONSTITUTION
Sat, 23 Jul 11 5:32 AM 		Msg. 13996 of 21975

Nope. The exclusive sense of your interpretation doesn't jump out at me. When I read the original piece I didn't think for a minute that the US originated the concept of jihad or that it wasn't taught. What we orchestrated was the production and distribution of textbooks designed to emphasize and encourage violent jihad. That jihad existed a priori is understood. Indeed, if it was not already there, the texts would not be effective as it is a difficult concept to introduce.

The phrase in bold is the most accurate description and quite frankly it seems much worse than saying we 'taught jihad'.

Bottom line is that we attempted to manipulate the Afghan Muslim culture and succeeded only to have it blow up in our faces years later. We meddled and got burned, so the lesson should be 'don't meddle'.

Take a last shot if you must. We've pretty well exhausted this.

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