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...but Burbank, where is your sense of humanity. Hell, where's youre sense of Universalism? If you think behavior in the mid-east (which didn't start with our invasion of Iraq) is a mirror reflection of our own sins, doesn't that still obscure the reality on the ground there? Life in Iran, and Sudan along with many other countries where the US isn't on the ground really isn't all that humane. Nothing going on in the US truly compares beyond some symbolic gesturing attempt to say "we're all bad".

So why don't you care for the people living under Shar'ia laws who are victims themselves? If you don't care about Daniel Pearl because hey, he was American, and the Americans nuked Japan - then fine. Do you see how that does a disservice to human kind though? Because Americans are bad and have killed many Iraqi's you argue that it's suitable for beheadings and stonings to become culturally expainable in the mid-east? I don't think that's what you're intending to say at all...the problem is most of what you're saying sounds like "we're bad, we do bad things, I don't have the right to judge or worry about their badness, we're responsible too". In which case, you're not addressing the problems or issues themselves, you're just assuming guilt, and in this case self guilt is so far off the radar of reality it really doesn't add much to the discussion.

Do you truly in your heart believe that radical Muslims commit crimes solely as a responsive backlash to the policies of foriegn governments like the US?