Ramadhan
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Yes, the people Americans are currently fighting with are Muslims, but that's not the reason why they're fighting them, if it was, then US should invade like Indonesia.
Ooohh.. this is just too easy for me.
Obviously, you have little knowledge about world's contemporary political history.
the US, as recent CIA declassified documents have also showed, provided intelligence aid and funds to general Suharto when he staged coup d'etat against previous president Sukarno who refused to kow tow US government and US policy.
Suharto then became a president (dictatorial in practice) for 30 years, who suppressed all kinds of Islamic activities regarded as "fundamental" (not unlike the current Husni Mubarak of Egypt). The use/wear of hijab are banned from ALL public places (my high school mates were kicked out of school for daring to wear hijabs). Thus, Indonesia was considered "friendly" by the US. In addition, the US corporations were given total freedom to exploit Indonesian natural resources (oil, gas, coal, gold, copper, timber, etc etc) and took most of the profits.
Contrast that to Iran, Iraq or Libya who limited how foreign corporations operate in their countries. Surprise surprise, those countries are branded as "evil" by the US.
Not until several strange turns of events culminated with the Asian economic crisis that the people forced Suharto to step down. And now Indonesians are more knowleadgable and Islam are flourishing here (sadly, so are western evil influences) and the country is much stronger than before.
Given the geographical nature of the country (archipelago state with over 17,000 islands), huge population (230 millions), the US would be out of their mind if they decide to attack Indonesia, even if they could do so or wanted to.