Oh my, did you hear about this truck killing more than 80 people in Nice, France? We've got to stop recruiting people to be terrorists. I don't mean just America, although we certainly are one of the biggest supporter of ISIS and Al-Qaida. We and much of Europe are the best recruiters for terrorist groups, even bigger than their own people. Think not? Listen to the speeches of one of the major contenders for the White House sometime instead of bobbing your head like a little dog on the dashboard. There are even Democrats sounding like that.
Don't you think young middle eastern refugees and Muslims here in America hear that? How would you feel if a serious candidate were to suggest that every Catholic or Methodist or Jew or any other religion were to hear that they were no longer welcome in America. Hey, Catholics did hear similar words about a hundred years ago. How would members of your family feel about such pronouncements? Think any would take exception to those words?
I know a number of Muslims, good people. Muslims aren't the problem. The problem is that some are mad as hell at us. You don't think we could have done something to cause them to be mad at us? If you don't, you're living in a dream world. Why don't we ask them what we can do to soothe their hurt feelings. Seriously! We need to get over ourselves. We can and have harmed their world. They may not want to be us. They may want to be a better us. We should too.
If we want to be great again, we need to treat people with respect. Even people who don't look like us or even speak like us. We should be mad as hell at us. We need to let our leaders and those who would be our leaders that we demand they too treat everyone with respect. The old adage "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" really does work if you give it time, time to prove we're serious. Fight terrorism, yes, but calm down the rhetoric.
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Ed, I wish I lived closer to you. We could have some great conversations. Our people, the people of the USA, are not being taught about the things we have done to keep the oil spigot on. Like the fact we are directly responsible for the killing of many democratically elected leaders of other nations. The big one that comes to mind is the one that led to the installation of a dictator, the Shaw of Iran. Iran had a right to be pissed. The US created our current state of affairs concerning Iran. Your right! We need to fess up. We can only hope that doing so may take some of the wind out of the sails of the radical Muslims.
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