Re: Mideast hatred is demented?
This has nothing to do with the Middle East. Instead, it's a string of platitudes about random violence caused by irrational hatred and the problems with rationalizing it. It applies everywhere, including here.
Of course terrorism inspired by blind hatred is irrational. Of course the bombers in Casablanca, Riyahd and Israel had no legitimate greivance against their targets. This does not imply, however, that eliminating the causes of the more rational animosities will have no effect on their most extreme manifestations. You can prove this simply by asking: did 9/11 create hatred that compelled some Americans to commit or support random violence against innocent people? Of course it did. Does this mean that the perpretrators of 9/11 bear no responsibility for this, or that terrorists generally should refrain from giving American haters "what they want" on the grounds that hatred is really caused by other things? Of course not.
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