interesting reading on politics

[jasondrake]

in a friend's journal

http://www.livejournal.com/users/revelsofthedead/67617.html

Comments

[militiajim.livejournal.com]

10,000 accidental deaths is not genocide. I'm not sure of a standard, but genocide implies, if not states, that there is thoughful malice at work. Rawanda was. The Serbs tried. Sudan looks like its going to be. Iraq is not.

[revelsofthedead.livejournal.com]

They think it is. Al Jazeera reported that the [I believe it was Saudi's and Egyptians.. but might have been a wider poll.. not sure] thought of this as a "Crusade against Muslims". And if they think so, imagine what the backlash will be.

[militiajim.livejournal.com]

Given the historal record of Arabs fighting Western armies, it will be very bloody; for them.