Andy Rooney Blames Terrorism on American Behavior
- Chip
Really, he does. From his useless commentary last night:
Or, on the other hand, Muslim extremists could, theoretically of course, stop blowing themselves up, stop trying to fly planes into buildings, stop trying to kill all of the infidels. Is that such a stretch of the imagination?
Ace puts this as good as I've seen.
UPDATE: Video of the crotchety old fool at HotAir.
The disaster on September 11th wasn't like any of those. It was manmade. Death by design. Some people who hated Americans set out to kill a lot of us and they succeeded
Americans are puzzled over why so many people in the world hate us. We seem so nice to ourselves. They do hate us though. We know that and we're trying to protect ourselves with more weapons.
We have to do it I suppose but it might be better if we figured out how to behave as a nation in a way that wouldn't make so many people in the world want to kill us.
Or, on the other hand, Muslim extremists could, theoretically of course, stop blowing themselves up, stop trying to fly planes into buildings, stop trying to kill all of the infidels. Is that such a stretch of the imagination?
Ace puts this as good as I've seen.
They do not hate you because of Iraq.
They do not hate you because of Kyoto.
They do not hate you because of "US foreign policy."
They do not hate you because of "American hegemony."
They do not hate you because of globalization -- at least as that term is typically understood.
They hate you because their lunatic understanding of their religion compels them to hate you, and to murder you, and to convert the world to Allah, and murder those unwilling to accept his Religion of Extortion.
They hate you because Allah, they believe, has dictated that the most fanatical, most piously murderous of Muslims shall be the kings of the earth and the masters of all creation, and your very existence -- free, prosperous, technologically advanced, happy -- is a blasphemy to them.
They cannot hope to overtake the West, or even the modernizing parts of Thailand, in fifty years, or even a hundred years, or even in five hundred years, through attempts to raise the Islamic world up.
Which means they are commanded to lay the Western world down low.
The West is despised because it offers an alternative to the thuggish, primative, barbarous, woman-enslaving, honor-killing culture-cum-twisted-religion in which they believe. And which therefore threatens the power of the lunatic theocrats to keep control over their populations.
UPDATE: Video of the crotchety old fool at HotAir.
