US is helpless and toothless,

Submitted by roadmaster (United States), Jan 20, 2011 at 07:31

especially when it comes to influencing Muslim nations. Their culture is stuck in the 10th century and they have no desire to advance beyond the barbarity and cruelty of their religious/political ideology. This is their moment and they're grabbing it.

I originally supported Bush's new paradigm, democratisation. Something different had to be tried as nothing else ever worked, but it has pretty much been a failure like all policies before it.

There is no reasoning with radical Islam. It has one main goal, and that is to force the rest of the world to embrace Allah (Satan), or die.

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