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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: 49thMIMOMander who wrote (5010)10/14/2001 7:49:21 PM
From: SirRealist  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
"Unethical & cowardly". Sorry. Not rising to the bait; Ken has insisted we do not get personal. As to the suggestion that I set up a false supposition (strawman) that is easy to attack, I have found numerous Muslims and policy analysts indicating that Bin Laden's appeals to the masses of the more discontent Muslims is very powerful, and that plenty of hero worship exists among those folks.

Even interviews of Afghans and Egyptians and Pakistanis, and others have further demonstrated such feelings exist. Bin Laden terms it himself a holy war; it may be hyperbole to move him from 'holy hero' to holy God' but it is hardly a strawman argument.

I'd appreciate it if you'd keep further responses confined to discussion or debate of foreign policy without using such added insulting words as the ones I quoted at the beginning, which contribute nothing.
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