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Originally posted by Mahar Vairo@Jun 19 2005, 10:40 AM
@all
Anyone familiar with King Haroon Rashid? He was the King of Baghdad and ruled quite fairly.
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Even some Turkish Sultans earned respect from Chrisitans (e.g in middle age Bosnia).
Especially arabians were known to be fair in this matter.
As i recall even Mulsim religion doesne't approve taking life of another man.
And the most interesting incident in history (in crusades) to me is when volonteer christians from Germany came to the gates of Konstantinopolis. The emperor quickly saw what kind of peopel they are and provided them with a ride across the straight as fast as he could. When they reached the other shore they attacked first town in sight. killing everyone, butchering them, putting babies on sticks and grilling them like pigs over fire. but guess what. they were not the Arabs or any other invaders. They were Christians. obviously they made a mistake. conclusion - war is bad. well except if it's on computer. then it's good. :Titan:
But i guess we all went a bit offtopic here. The view of Americans is done by their foreign politics. and the government is selected democratically (hmm this is arguable since they don't really get elelcted in one man - one voice principle), which means that everyone decides (even those that didn't vote) who will be head of state. and if head of state is agressive, intollerant, (legally) corrupted and has a need for war then we can assume that majority of americans approves this (eventhough they might not be the same). Foreign policy of a state reflects the people. E.g. Hitler took over power with a basically handfull of nazies but since everyone (ok, majority) agreed to him and his policies...Remember that during WW2 the term German and Nazi ment the same to most people eventhough not all Germans were nazies.