Dr. Yaron Brook - Israel and the West's War against Islamic Totalitarianism - Q&A Part 3

Q&A Part 3 from "Israel and the West's War against Islamic Totalitarianism:Why We Are Losing"
A Public Lecture by Dr. Yaron Brook -
Executive Director of the Ayn Rand Institute, USA
Date: June 18, 2007 Time: 19:30 PM
Location: The Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC)

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[Anochi]

Usfull Idiot where always a target for terrorist propaganda, They will buy everything from "Colonialism" to "Poverty" in order to support the "morality" of terror and murder. The fact is that Jews do not go murdering Germans and Buddhist do not go Murdering Chinese people. Keep in mind the Muslim's terror is directed first to other more moderate Muslim and only after to the west. Their explicit goal is to roll the world.

[Attritive]

@ORIGINALUSRNM The evidence is their culture, political system, and government. As far as force and mind being opposites, I don't know what that means. But I do know that force stops a man from exercising his volition, whether he uses it to choose a business enterprise or to spread an ideology of war and tyranny. Ideas are held by men; they don't exist in the atmosphere or on a supernatural plane. If you snuff out the ability of men to succeed with an ideology, you snuff out the ideology.

[ORIGINALUSRNM]

@Attritive - just curious, what evidence do you have that Bin Laden was behind 9/11? I'm not saying he wasn't, just wondering what the proof is.

[ORIGINALUSRNM]

@Attritive - I can't agree. Force and mind are opposites. You can't defeat ideas or Ideology with force. What evidence do you have that the majority of Iranians want to "destroy" the unites States? I think that is an insupportable statement, to say the least. I doubt very many Iranians at all want to destroy the US. Where is your evidence?

[Attritive]

The fundamental cause of 9/11 was Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic totalitarianism. The primary actors were Bin Laden's group, along with any of his supporters, either monetarily or ideologically. These people hate our way of life, hate the basis of our country, and envy our greatness. For their ideology to succeed, America must be annihilated or it's ideology must be shown to be a failure. To say that America was a 'causal factor' is true--but not in the sense you mean.

[Attritive]

@ORIGINALUSRNM If you defeat the countries (primarily the governments and the ideology behind those governments) who have declared war, or have engaged in war, then the problem is solved. No, not 100% of the people of Iran are wanting to destroy the United States and Israel. But the majority is at least complicit if not outright supportive. Regardless, if innocent people die in the process of us defending ourselves, it is the fault of the attackers.

[ORIGINALUSRNM]

@Attritive - Also, I apologize if I sound hostile. I do not mean to be. I think the issue here is that you are making a lot of assumptions that I do not necessarily agree with. So this is probably a discussion that would have to get down to deeper fundamentals. I do respect the idea that if you believe someone is going to harm or enslave you or your family that you want to stand up and defend them. I agree with that. I just think there are issues when involving the State with this.

[ORIGINALUSRNM]

@Attritive - and I'm not claiming that there are not real dangers or evil people in the world. But I have not yet seen a justification for slaughtering innocent people and I don't see how invading countries is going to be a solution. You know the world was more dangerous after WWII then before. but the original issue here is that Ron Paul did not claim that America was the sole cause of 9/11. But it was a one of the causal factors.

[ORIGINALUSRNM]

@Attritive What exactly is our government doing in the Middle East right now that could be considered "self-defense"? Seriously, we have attacked people that had nothing to do with Al Qeada while supporting those that do. We are supporting Al Qeada against Kadafi right now. What sense does that make? We have embellished the #1 state of Islamic repression, Saudi Arabia, with the best arms deal ever. Are you sure you know what side our government is on?

[ORIGINALUSRNM]

@ORIGINALUSRNM ( part 2 ) ...would be that some German people were at war with not only Russian people, but with other German people and vice versa for Russia. As applied to the war on terror, isn't it more accurate to say that the enemy to the American people is both Islamic fundamentalists and our own government? Its really just two small groups fighting for power and using the rest of us. they are not fighting for us, but using us for themselves.

[ORIGINALUSRNM]

@Attritive - that is a good question and brings up a lot if we really think about it. Properly speaking "Germany" and "Russia" were not at war any more then "blacks" or "whites" could be at war because there is no such thing. There were a small group of individuals in each of those countries that were making war, yes. But what was really happening? Most of the Germans had not choice in the matter and were just as much a victim of the Nazis as the Russions. So I think a more accurate statement...