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Originally posted by MaggieL
Ya know, I'd be careful about flinging the term "right wing extremists" about so much in this context. ... But a lot of them find ATF and the "Office of Homeland Security" to be scary too. "Right wing extremists" seems like too mild a term sometimes.
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That is also characteristic of extremist groups. They find anyone who thinks differently to be scary. Michigan militia, for example, who thought everyone would be against them. Extremists have intolerance. They fear others who think (and sometimes others who look) different. It is this intolerant attitude in George Jr's inner circle that almost got us into a military standoff with China. Thank goodness there were a few moderates, voices of tolerance, in George Jr's administration.
BTW, because of those moderates, George Jr will be visiting China soon in what is expected to be a warm welcome.
Tonight we have another example of problems created by the intolerant. First a parallel example: Since the US is a primary source of IRA arms, then the US an enemy of Ireland? Of course not. But because Iran is a source of arms for some terrorists, then Iran is an American enemy?
We have our mafioso and Iran has their's. But tonight, George Jr painted Iran with a broad brush. He is undoing years of slow careful fence mending with Iran - a country we really do need to find common and friendly ground with. Ditto with N Korea - a country that was slowly being brought back into the world as a contributing nation.
Extremists paint everyone either black or white. Iran is neither. Work to open N Korea has been destroyed. Until we get more moderate thinking from our current White House staffers, we will see a slow degradation of relations with all Arab nations. But then the Saudi crown prince was trying to tell us that when he offered a $10million check to the WTC fund. Did anyone here what he said?
Extremists will not see what the Saudi Crown prince said in an interview in yesterdays NY Times. Extremists see enemies everywhere. Therefore extremists are so dangerous.
What contibuted so much to our VietNam fiasco? Another extremist called McCarthy (R-WI).