Quote Originally Posted by hatidua View Post
18 years provided ample opportunity.

I spoke with my wife by phone yesterday as she is on a research project in Indonesia, which has more muslims than any country on earth. She said that three years ago when she was there, people had a definite opinion of Americans, be it positive or negative - some of each, but everyone had a viewpoint. She said there's been a palpable change in the past few years. The economy is absolutely thriving over there, trade with other neighbor nations is booming, and as far as viewpoints on America - completely nonexistent, as if the U.S. doesn't exist, -like asking your average person in Denver what they thought of the game in Latvia last week.

While there are definitely terrorists in the world that want nothing more than to do the U.S. harm, there are a great many muslims who are busy running their tech firms, their pharmaceutical companies, Etc. rather than concerning themselves with the U.S.

Suggesting that every single muslim wants to kill the infidel is quaint in that it assumes the average muslim cares that we exist. Many are busy on the trading floor in Dubai or on the golf course in Brunei, they don't give a rats ass about some American, or if that American converts to Islam or not.

Instead of squabbling over the street address of a mosque, maybe we as a nation should put a tad more concern toward getting our economy straightened out, keeping our noses out of other countries business, and maybe trying to resolve our debt issues by spending a whole lot less money 'building nations' around the world that likely don't want us there in the first place.

No, that's not nearly as popular on an internet forum as fuming about the latest enemy du jour, but it might get us back to being a successful country instead of sucking on the Chinese teet waiting for them to buy more treasuries to keep us afloat.
So I was just imagining things when I saw on the news all day long on 9/11/01 massive crowds people in Cairo, Islamabad, and Syria burning American flags and chanting things to the effect of "Down with America"? Ya know, since they couldn't care less about us and don't concern their daily lives with what goes on in the US.