Arun makes a number of good points and offers a perspective that undermines the demagogues of the right. The right loves simple easy answers to complex problems.  They miss their responsibility for creating the conditions that make for a rich soup of angry people who don't see any way out.  Of course we all know that the Iraqi war was the worst response, particular how the first six months were handled. Bush's team was arrogant. Blackwater was arrogant.  Debathification was stupid, and arrogant.  They left stock piles of bombs around Bagdad that slowly dissolved to become IEDs. And throughout this the words of support for Islam were undermined by the radical right.  And it's gotten worse, much worse as Fox and team rally their troops to undermine considered actions that could both reduce the hatred and tension and increase our ability to deal with extremists on both ends...great insights!

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