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Originally Posted by MossadConspiracy

well yeah, if some other country attacks you then you should fight back, thats a natural right. Peaceful campaigns are powerful too, but not necessarily against aerial bombing and countries that have gone 'berserk' as you put it. There is a difference between fighting against attackers and wishing that somebody would attack so that you could fight them. I dont know why alot of Arabs have militant fantasies about the future, where its all about cataclysmic war to obliterate various enemies. I'm sure the trauma of Israel's creation and the helplessness under various failed regimes in key Arab states (which include Egypt) is part of it. But its also possible to imagine a future that is peaceful and dignified for Arabs, without the necessity of acting out a revenge fantasy where millions of our people die (or where we kill some huge number of other people). I actually think long-term sustained peace across most of the middle east, and gradually all of it, is the future, and not through American intervention or any foreign intervention either. Actually, i think you guys in the gulf will lead the way. But that was a tangent

ws

Well it could be that the Arabs like many oppressed populaces recognise that with war comes a dismantling of the existing status quo and power structure. And maybe they want that, even it means people lose their lives along the way. "Oppression is worse than slaughter...".