Internet chiefs told to curb Islamists online

[cprise]

47. Its a mistake to blame victims for the results of your own agression

In governance, religion is the last resort of the incompetent. The US/NATO technological leviathan is powerfull enough to instill feelings of inadequacy in any population. Continually toppling foreign governments (throwing societies into disarray if not shattering them as in Iraq) is their M.O.

"The United States is and will remain the one indispensable nation in the world. Now, sustaining our leadership, keeping America strong and secure means we have to use our power wisely," Obama said in his address to the American Legion in North Carolina."

This is the rhetoric of world domination. "Indispensible" largely means the ability to choose which people in a given country receive the arms and support needed to stay in power (whether or not the local population likes it):


http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/08/26/world/middleeast/united-states-arms-sales-rise.html?ref=middleeast

...let's not forget SA has never been a haven for women - we have nothing to do with that.

Of course we do. The US has made the Wahabist kingdom in SA possible and props it up continually. Ensuring the Saudis will drop oil prices at our command means the US can prevent any other oil-rich countries from challenging US economic power (by undermining oil revenues, or keeping the world interested in the dollar as a defacto reserve currency even if a petro state stops accepting dollars in exchange for this crucial resource).

We could have chosen a tribal faction with more modern aspirations, or even better, left them to themselves. But the US seems to have developed a preference for dealing with knuckle-draggers.