Oy vey. So, umm, they are all supporters of Ishmael and not Isaac in South America?!?!?!?

QTC: "The Muslims are still p^ssed..." Well, I guess that makes them just regular folks, much like "Texas12" above who is still upset about Tripoli in 1785.

I replied above.

And in that same time frame it was our Christian duty to spread the Good News of Christ over all the Globe, and we wre enthusiastically doing so at gunpoint. Move your obsession with isolated events of ancient history a little farther south to the Belgian Congo for an example. None of this is relevant to Islamic Terrorism today. OTOH, what we and Western Europe do in the Middle East is relevant. It is current.

The only fanatics with which I am trying to reason are the ones on this website. If we are inflicting injustice on anyone, the only people with which we need to reason are ourselves. I have NEVER excused any act of Terrorism.

The standard ideology here at TownHall is that the IslamoWhackJobs try and inflict terrorism on America and the West solely because we do not accept Allah as the one true God and we do not bow in submissive acceptance of the worldwide Caliphate. It is such blasphemous apostasy to suggest that the last 150 years of American and Western behavior may have something to do with Islamic terrorism that only masochistic appeasers would even raise the issue. Do I have that about right? I invite you to examine this map of all Islamic Terrorist attacks from 9/11 to the latest atrocious beheading: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/10077373/Graphic-terrorist-attacks-by-al-Qaeda-Islamist-and-Islamic-terrorist-groups-2001-2011.html Note the complete lack of fatal attacks in South Amercia. I guess that means they are all Muslims in South America already?

What did we do to provoke pirates of any nationality to attack our ships? Don't ask foolish questions.

Do you really believe that there is no relationship between the last century of intervention, invasion, occupation and economic exploitation of the Muslim Middle East by America and the West and the desire of Muslim extremists to attack us? Do you really think we would have the same threat of Islamic Terrorism in the USA and in Europe if no Western power had ever conquered any portion of the Middle East since 1850 or so? Do you really think we have no moral obligation to at least ask ourselves that question?

"And there will always be Bozos on TownHall..." Speaking of which...

I can understand the argument for bombing Hiroshima & Nagasaki. Though I may not agree with it, I cannot deny that we did not have to invade Japan. But Dresden? How did the bombing of Dresden change or shorten the European WWII? It seems to me we just incinerated a giant Museum.