Originally Posted by
jillian
No. This is where you guys lack subtlety and go after with a nuke what you should be going after with a carving knife. Have you any proof of Al Queda and Hamas doing business? Or are you just surmising?
I've always felt that our guys should have been trained by the Mossad in how to deal with terrorists.
No... Hamas is not the same as Al Queda. Its focus is not on fundamentalism, it's on destruction of Israel. Near as I can tell, there's no global objective.
Here's the deal ....
Global domination is the goal of Islam as a whole. Now that isn't saying using violence to achieve that goal is the MO of Islam as a whole. But that ideal is fundamental to the religion.
You state that the goals of Hamas, Hezbollah and AQ are different. I disagree. All are motivated by the basic premise that no one but Arabs can live or basically step foot on Arab land. Hamas and Hezbollah attack Israel, while AQ's primary target is the US. Hamas is made up of indiginous Arabs claiming to be Palestinians. Hezbollah is funded and more than likely armed primarily by Iran, a Shia sect. AQ is funded by Wahabbi radicals.
The cause is the same for them, just as the presence of the US and Israel is the same. They just have two different fronts to their war.
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke