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(8,445 posts)and you'll find Christian fundamentalists are over-represented. Do they complain about Saudi being the beheading capital of the world?
But you did miss the point about Dominionism, which is similar to calling for Sharia law. And the so-called "religious freedom" laws -- which are meant to exempt only Christians from obeying the law so they can follow their own laws -- are gaining support here.
And I think your laundry list of barbarisms misses the point of anti-war dissent entirely. You don't see shock-and-awe-mongering as barbaric.
You also seem to forget the west...
* redefined most of the borders in the ME and installed brutal puppet regimes.
* toppled democratic governments in countries that were modernizing.
* favored Sunnis to do the west's dirty work in pursuit of oil... that means we armed and financed the worst examples of what you cite, people who seek worldwide domination and who have a calling to create international strife.
* created and props-up Israel which keeps a portion of the Muslim population as stateless inmates in a vast open-air prison, where generations of them live, grow old and die.
You think all this imposition of political power and death from another part of the globe hasn't vastly increased the appeal of fundamentalist rage and stupidity over there? You expect them to keep reaching for western political norms forever? Maybe they should aspire to the gentility of global pushbutton carnage and cultivate a complete ignorance of the scale of civilian casualties... it only takes about 820 military bases to reach that bliss.
Even Colin Powell said about Iraq: "You break it, you own it."
Indeed.
That's what our history as a self-described "hyperpower" means in relation to so many nations. The new US slogan repeated in DC is "Making America the indispensable country." -- really. A cheerful euphemism for making sure no other country can function without us. We have so taken over the third world weapons market that no armed third world conflict can ensue without us.
The only thing Tony Blair's quote proves is that he prefers savagery in a modern flavor. We have plenty of it here, as courts shove a staggering 20% of the adult population through the prisons while the badge-wearers condone a culture of prison rape. And why?? Justice is also considered "zero tolerance" and death penalties un-overturnable for innocent black men, the mode of death being chemical immobilization and excruciating pain -- minus stones. US cluster bombs and depleted uranium litter foreign lands (removes hands, limbs, face, maybe all at once).