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The third myth is an absurdity of more recent vintage: A government is only legitimate, and can only be dealt with, if it renounces violence and recognizes the right of all states to exist. In practice, this means that Palestine's new Hamas government must unilaterally disarm in the face of a demonstrably brutal enemy – backed by the unqualified support of the world's only superpower – and willingly turn its back on a duty (jihad) that it believes derives from God's word.
Michael Scheuer who gained fame as the famed "Anonymous" whose main job at the CIA was tracking Osama (before anyone else had heard of him) sounds a bit naive if he thinks that the US was actually intruding into the Middle East to spread democracy. However, he does make that case that if it was, US treatment of Hamas after they won the election in Palestine was a definite blunder.
SIRATYST (Stuff I Read and Thought You Should Too) -- “To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.” (Calgacus, as quoted by Tacitus, Agricola 30-31)"
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