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In reply to the discussion: "Norway Didn't Give in to Islamophobia, nor should France" [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)men, women and children who had done nothing to us. 70% of Americans supported that brutal invasion. I'm happy to say I was among the 30%. Who or what was responsible for the torture and the destruction of an entire nation, the 4 million refugees who are still living in refugee camps in Jordan and Syria because their country, a once modern, fairly well of nation, is totally destroyed?
People in the Eastern part of the world, and many in other parts of the world, blame Christianity.
Can't really blame them because from they are they don't much about this country other than we invaded and brutally murdered, yes it was murder, hundreds of thousands of human beings.
We don't know much about their countries. But I remember when Bush sent one of his women Reps to the ME to talk to Middle Eastern women. She was lecturing them on our superior western culture and how they might avail themselves of it.
This 'diplomatic' trip was based on the US belief that all Muslim women were repressed and needed us to rescue them.
As it turned out, those women were better educated than the emissary sent by Bush. They politely explained to her that they were quite happy with their lives, their families and their careers. Yes, they had careers, some were doctors, lawyers etc.
It was embarrassing to say the least. The sheer ignorance of even our supposed leaders about other cultures and the assumption that our way of life is the best in the history of the world.
I hope they are more tolerant than we are, because we sure have destroyed their lives, their careers, their families, their homes for the foreseeable future.