>I find it interesting at any rate that this question (Why do they
>hate us?) is being raised in such a way as to make Americans
>paranoid and to justify whatever measures the current regime wants
>to take to curb civil liberties and repress any form of dissent.
>Because the way they pursue this question, they are asserting 1)
>that others hate us and 2) that others have no valid reason to feel
>this way,
Well, only 18% of the Gallup poll's Arab world sample believes that the World Trade Center atrocity was committed by Muslims from the Middle East, and that 60+% thinks it was committed by somebody else--which I think means "the Jews". This would seem to be evidence that some version of (1) and (2) may in fact be true...
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CB: To persist in ignoring that the U.S. had killed tens of thousands of people in that region before Sept. 11, and that the U.S. is hated because of its murderous foreign policy is becoming willfully blind and demogogic.