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it is a fact that the national divisions in the present muslims world (and not only there) are a result of the western imposition. quite a lot (in fact most) of internal conflicts in the muslim world (and not only there) were exacerbated and exploited by the actions of the west. besides, do...

both were wars of aggression. we also have every reason to question the motives of those who started them. the un charter, international treaties and the precedent at the nuremberg trials. not equally, but they are criminal in their own way. the question is was the war really necessary and...

not really. i mentioned a common arab identity just to point out that most "foreign" fighters in iraq are not so foreign after all. i also mentioned a common muslim identity and many (if not most) muslims identify with that despite all differences among them. and i don't really have the...

oh, and that guardian article actually sums it up nicely.

i said for osama bin laden's taste, not mine or yours. it is also naive to claim that the terrorists are uneducated, because they are not. that does not make the west look good though and we all know why. having said that, pre-sanctions iraq under baathists was a nicer place than it is now in...

like it or not, a common identity based on religious affiliation is a relity not only in the islamic world. furthermore, noone is talking about resolving the "grievances" of islamists. we are talking about legitimate grievances of ordinary muslims. and of course not all their grievances are...

the war against iraq started much earlier than the most recent confrontation or do you think the life of iraqis under sanctions was nice? we need to put the entire thing in context. it is no secret what radical muslims want to achieve. osama bin laden says that quite clearly in his videos and...

apart from the fact that the us actually created the problem in the first place it should be obvious that some people seized the opportunity to pursue their own agenda. i don't think "the war on terror" has much to do with fighting against terrorism. of course something must be done about the...

i'm not sure if i understood you right, but every serious expert on the middle east understands that the war on terror has helped recruiting new terrorists and even that the majority of them did not feel attracted to radical islamism before the war started. this is reality there are different...

yeah, sure, the us military never targets civilians as can be seen from hiroshima to fallujah and many other places. let's not be silly. one of the reasons why radical muslims are able to recruit young muslims is that westerners stubbornly refuse to admit their own barbarism. there is not much...

it was a rigged election, basically. the election in iraq was free in comparison.

from what i can see this "election" has little to do with democracy as we would like to have it. iraqis apparently hope that the election will bring change and relieve them from their misery (which includes ending the occupation by foreign troops), but this is not likely to happen. sunni arabs...

you don't mean chromedolla (dollar sign vs chrome riddm)?

perhaps i should elaborate a bit on this because i think we are drifting away from the topic. i don't think it is really that important if we agree if there was a genocide in kosovo or not. i think there wasn't, you think there was (at least if you put things in a certain context, as you say)...

even if true (which given the record of lying connected to that war i have no reason to believe), this quote proves what? that milosevic wouldn't mind killing albanian nationalists? i'm sure he wouldn't mind that. he was a criminal thug. still, the question is not what politicians say, but what...

that's a bit harsh. there are numerous international treaties that are essentially progressive, even if they are abused. i also wouldn't say it's irrelevant what term is used to describe what is currently going on in darfur - for the reasons given on this thread by oliver craner (except if you...

there was no such thing as genocide in kosovo. even according to nato estimates in the year prior to the bombing the number of people killed was ca. 2000 on all sides. when the bombing started the attrocities escalated (not surprisingly) and there were claims of hundreds of thousands of albanian...

that was the only post here that really makes sense. the rest seems a bit divorced from the reality. the clinton administration also did their best to show that there was a genocide where there was none (kosovo), which apparently the bush administration is trying to do right now with darfur. it...