[Flipside]

That's the thing, we destroy our own freedoms under the boogeyman of 'Terrorism', and there is a trend in the Middle East to blame everything bad that happens to the people on 'The influence of the West', rather than accepting that maybe the policies aren't working too well. This has, as you say, created a monster out of the West which, like terrorism, has a shadow far far larger than the thing that is casting it.

[Beskargam]

all together sounds pretty crummy. I dont think we have any kind of moral high ground here in the US. Not saying were wrong,terribad people and we should die of shame etc, etc. but that we dont have a claim to the "right" of anything involving this. its to complex and there probbally is no right. no black and white at all. just a lot of grey. I also noted from that class (another cnn documentary this time a journalist who spent 10 days with the talibanin afghanistan) that many of the taliban fighters were devoted to the cause of combating the west quite simply because we were there. they believe america and its western allies are  oppressosr and a conquerors/occupiers much like the USSR was. Which contrasts mightly from our self comceptualized image of the west as being liberators. In some respects, is it possible that this concept, on the part of afghani's is a result of the USSR occupation and then further back as a buffer state in the Great Game and general instability of afghanistan for the last 2 centuries at least? basically at the constant mercy of foreign powers and this a reaction to lash out against those powers?   

[JCDNWarrior]

Perhaps a interesting tidbit of info:

http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/10/26/173833.html?PHPSESSID=hbmilvf0a8pi7gmni6lbqkmt07

"Qatar revealed for the first time on Wednesday that hundreds of its soldiers had joined Libyan rebel forces on the ground as they battled troops of veteran leader Muammar Qaddafi.

 “We were among them and the numbers of Qataris on ground were hundreds in every region,” said Qatari chief of staff Major General Hamad bin Ali al-Atiya."

The more information that slowly comes out from official channels the more it looks like a typical regime change rather than a popular revolution.

[Dilmah G]

Oh, well. That sucks for them, huh? At least they got support

[NGTM-1R]

Because Qatar is known for its ability to change regimes.

In other news, Turkey has apparently thrown its support behind the Syrian armed opposition.