What exactly is an appropriate response?

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Originally posted by jaguar
Rusotto....go lower...far.lower.
Socioeconomic differences. You don't see many extremists in irst world counties, wonder why...

Seriously, tell me about Tim McVeigh and Ted Kaczinsky and Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson and....

We've got all sorts of extremists in the US. Most of them in the "mostly harmless" category, and thus aren't news.

Extremism requires certain conditions, such as poverty and much of the povery in the middle east could have bene avoided if the US wasen't so interesting in playing games to its advangeage.

Stuff and nonsense. Poverty is not a requirement for extremism (bin Laden is not poor, for one thing), and the US didn't cause poverty in the middle east in general nor Afghanistan in particular.

As for afgansitan, leaving a country awash with arms after youv'e won another point on the ideological scoreboard probably didn't help.

The weapons left are, for the most part, Russian. And would you care to try and take them away?

Islamic extremism is the rallying point for this anti-first world anger. Thsoe reasons you listed down the bottom further my point, the real anger isin't about anyhting that petty, its about being made powerless fools by the first world. People don't liek when thier nation has its strings pulled.

The First World's mere existence is an affront enough. The US is still not at fault.