Comments on: Bin Laden Message: I encourage you to read this. http://www.sagelewis.com/2006/01/20/bin-laden-message-i-encourage-you-to-read-this/ Sage's Life and Pursuits Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:44:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Sage http://www.sagelewis.com/2006/01/20/bin-laden-message-i-encourage-you-to-read-this/comment-page-1/#comment-116 Sage Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:40:00 +0000 http://www.grulichfamily.com/sagelewis/2006/01/20/bin-laden-message-i-encourage-you-to-read-this/#comment-116 I was wondering if this post would cause a backlash response. I'm not suggesting anything. That's important to understand. I just want to show that this is more complicated than our leaders want us to believe. We know this: Bin Laden is our enemy. Al qaeda is our enemy. Hesbola is our enemy. Iraqi insurgents are our enemy. That list can go on and on. Then factions of certain groups are our enemy. Parts of Iran, the Palestinian Authority, Saudi Arabia. That list becomes even more long and much more gray. What is the strategy when our enemy is not a state but a worldwide cause? All I'm asking is: Are we attacking this correctly. Maybe we are. But maybe we aren't. As Americans, we have to consider all of the options. But our government only wants us to believe one option... theirs. I was wondering if this post would cause a backlash response.

I’m not suggesting anything. That’s important to understand. I just want to show that this is more complicated than our leaders want us to believe.

We know this:
Bin Laden is our enemy. Al qaeda is our enemy. Hesbola is our enemy. Iraqi insurgents are our enemy. That list can go on and on. Then factions of certain groups are our enemy. Parts of Iran, the Palestinian Authority, Saudi Arabia. That list becomes even more long and much more gray.

What is the strategy when our enemy is not a state but a worldwide cause?

All I’m asking is: Are we attacking this correctly. Maybe we are. But maybe we aren’t. As Americans, we have to consider all of the options. But our government only wants us to believe one option… theirs.

]]> By: Sinjin von Hoogstraaten http://www.sagelewis.com/2006/01/20/bin-laden-message-i-encourage-you-to-read-this/comment-page-1/#comment-115 Sinjin von Hoogstraaten Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:18:00 +0000 http://www.grulichfamily.com/sagelewis/2006/01/20/bin-laden-message-i-encourage-you-to-read-this/#comment-115 Are you on drugs? It sounds like you're sympathetic towards bin Laden. It sounds like the U.S. should say, "hey, dude, sorry, we accept the truce, we'll leave you alone." Good idea, yeah? No. America will get even more complacent than it is now and all the while al Qaeda will plan, plan, plan then one day Boom Goes a Nuclear Device somewhere in downtown L.A. or D.C. Look, even if we never even bothered them in the first place, they'd still want us dead. Don't you see that? Don't you know that? Radical Islamists want to spread their form of Islam AROUND THE WORLD destroying everything in its path. How to defeat that? I don't know. But to lay down arms and walk away and leave them alone: simply foolish. Why don't we just bomb ourselves? Are you on drugs? It sounds like you’re sympathetic towards bin Laden. It sounds like the U.S. should say, “hey, dude, sorry, we accept the truce, we’ll leave you alone.”

Good idea, yeah? No. America will get even more complacent than it is now and all the while al Qaeda will plan, plan, plan then one day Boom Goes a Nuclear Device somewhere in downtown L.A. or D.C.

Look, even if we never even bothered them in the first place, they’d still want us dead. Don’t you see that? Don’t you know that? Radical Islamists want to spread their form of Islam AROUND THE WORLD destroying everything in its path.

How to defeat that? I don’t know. But to lay down arms and walk away and leave them alone: simply foolish. Why don’t we just bomb ourselves?

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