Turquoise wrote:
BLdw wrote:
Turquoise wrote:
Granted, I realize the terrorists have no interest in getting us to side with them.
I'm fairly sure that neither of us knows what "terrorists" exactly want. I'm also quite sure that Osama didn't blow up WTC for same reasons as some wackos are blowing up innocent school girls and gardeners.
Those two sentences sort of contradict each other....
Hmm... quite true, heh. Somehow I found connection between the two but failed to recognize the contradiction there. My logic just fails
But let's put it this way: Targeting stadiums and skyscrapers instead of WTC, pentagon, (WH) had been better option if Osama wanted to have as many civilian victims as possible. So, to some extend we can assume he was trying to target the US "oppress facilities", not innocent people. But this is just "wild guessing", we don't know it for sure -- and our media is obviously quite biased about this whole subject (after all we have is (or mainly) news from our point of view around this subject).
Someone suicide bombing school girls, shoppers, etc. (basically innocent civilians who have nothing do to with... anything?) have their own agenda in mind. We can assume they don't want to have same kind of life over there as we have here, but yet again, this is nothing more than "wild guessing". We don't really know it.
Our media tends to label these suicide bombers and Osama in to the same category of terrorists, even when they seem to "fight" for different reasons and against different targets. Very rarely we opportunity to hear their (terrorists) opinions and their reasons for what they do... and why they do that. Every now and then there might be some extremists telling us how they hate US, West, world, universe (etc.) and how they go all jihad and crazy against us. But what are the reasons they would do that? They hate our freedom? At least Osama said in some of his video tapes that he doesn't hate our freedom. I don't know about other terrorists.
The problem here seems to be that we (public) don't actually know what terrorists want, or why they want what they want (it is likely possible there are people out there who actually know what they want...). All we do is assume from the news they feed us. Other problem is that we get our news mainly from same source(s): he's that Western general, professor, politician, etc. telling us how things are. That's very one sided, no matter what news source tells us that.
We can always question, though.