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"The way you prevent 'them' from doing horrible things to us and ours is by not doing horrible things to them in the first place, whether directly or through proxies like Israel or Pakistan."
What a painfully naïve statement. I do not discount the effects of US foreign policy in seriously inflaming the situation but to reduce the matter to us just leaving them alone is dangerously simplistic. Under your explanation are the violent Islamic expansions again virtually all bordering non-Muslims cultures throughout history to be seen as the result of provocation? And wasn't the first US-Muslim interaction in our history an attack by state-sponsored pirates on our commerical shipping in the Mediteranean?
A good question for the Salon crowd to consider is how can any religion who believes its god-given duty is to dominate humankind ever be sated?
