Heard a fellow speaking earlier of the world going into a new PAX Americanus and our just seeing the beginning of a new extended peace in the world and too invest accordingly . I think he might be right , after we capture and isolate all the religious fundamentalist zealouts in the world ( of all religions) and , and spread the information age across the globe.
As much as I want to believe you and not meaning to be controversial... Unfortunately the politicians allow the religious extremist to continue with their mumbo jumbo to the masses... So they remain dumbed-down... It is a symbiotic relationship between the two, as they are in the business of controlling your mind... so fat chance of getting help from the parrots to get rid of the men of the cloth. (meaning those who are fanatics mainly).
In addition... the particulars of the region makes it ever so difficult to make these people understand that at this point they would be 1,000 times better off laying down the weapons and come to some sort of arrangements.
It is incredible that they have the gall to call it the holly land or that they are fighting a religious war and I do not know what other bull crap they pretend to justify their criminal fanatism.
A bad deal is always better than a good fight! [obviously, not to them]
And what those particulars may be... well, I am sure there are many but this is an old problem...
I found the following article (at the Hahn’s corner)
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Rescuing Jerusalem from the Infidels
In his dreams, Saddam Hussein of Iraq views himself as a modern day Sultan Saladin. A brief historical summary of Saladin's victory over crusader armies in the 12th century is posted below. Saladin was the military leader of the Muslim army in 1187 who conquered Jerusalem by defeating the European crusader forces. Saddam Hussein wishes to emulate the historic Muslim hero. At least, the justification for Iraq's accumulation of weapons of mass destruction is veiled in the old paradigm of recapturing Jerusalem from the infidels. This arcane historical information gives some background information on the Mideast crisis, as seen from the eyes of the Arab people.
Salah Al-Din (Saladin), the Conqueror of Jerusalem
Salah al-Din (Known in Western literature by Saladin) became the Sultan of Egypt and Syria in 1176. Saladin's role in the Crusader times was to lead the the Muslim army to regain Jerusalem. Having an army that was composed of Egyptians and Syrians and a number of disciplined commanders who in most times were of Kurdish or Turkish origin, he was ready for the confrontation. In 1187 AD, Salah Al-Din crossed into Ajlun (in what is now northern Jordan) from Syria and dealt a severe blow to the Crusader army at Hittin, on Lake Tiberias. During the months that followed, one by one of the towns of Palestine fell in his hands; eventually Latin Jerusalem, so long under the Franks, submitted to the Muslim armies of Salah-Al-Din.
Salah al-Din had to face a third Crusade expedition headed by the English king, Richard Coeur de Lion, made of the combined armies of England, France and Austria. Salah al-Din's army (composed mainly of Egyptians, Syrians and volunteer Turks) checked the massive Frankish armies and weakened them in a war of attrition on the land of Palestine. In the end, the expedition failed to conquer Jerusalem.
Although the coast between Jaffa and Beirut was to be retaken by the Franks, inland Jerusalem remained firmly under the leadership of the Sultan Salah Al-Din.
One of the most interesting stories of the long war for Jerusalem concerned the relationship between Salah Al-Din and Richard the Lionheart, King of England. The latter was taken ill while the Crusader and Muslim armies were still arrayed against one another; at the same time he was also informed of the plot against his kingdom by his brother John. Knowing that he must make pace and leave for Europe to secure his throne, King Richard sent out peace feelers to Salah Al-Din by way of the Sultan's brother, Saif Al-Din. Eventually a peace deal was worked out in which the town of Ascalon, the one threat to the Muslim armies, would be destroyed so that it would no longer pose a danger to Salah Al-Din's control of Jerusalem,while another town, Joppa would be restored to the Christians that they may live there in peace. Salah Al-Din also agreed to allow free passage to any Christian who wanted to visit the holy sites of Jerusalem and to live and trade freely under Muslim rule.
Below are ancient maps of the empire of Saladin. There was no Israel on the ancient maps. The radical factions of the Arab world would prefer a return to that particular medieval condition. Of course, Israel is aware of the risk to her existence. From this conflict comes the seeds of the violent war to come.
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We have the power to do it too...
Sure we do...
But it takes two to tango and if the other side is bent on strictly fighting because of ancient unsettled scores... it is simply not going to happen.
If the US thinks Israel is about to lay down her weapons in the face of continuous terrorist attacks... they must be smoking some very potent peyote, more so than the one Clinton used.
It is my belief that Israel is nearing the point of exhaustion and I would not be surprised to learn of a definitive attack on the Palestinian "leader" (i.e. Arafat) and with that... (something along the lines of Entebbe)... it will put to rest an ancient terrorist who claims to be a diplomat... (Were if not for the patronizing that European and American politicians have given this criminal, he would have been long gone many years ago).
Perhaps his time has finally come. Let's see how the Arab "brothers" come to the rescue of the Palestinians. It is time not for the US to show a weakened hand, but on the contrary, support Israel in a decisive blow against terrorists. If not, we risk the events of September 11 all over again.
It is not time to turn the other cheek, it is time for a definitive and decisive attack to finish the era of terror, unless we do that, the chances for enduring peace and progress is indeed slim.
Read you tomorrow.
p.s. Refreshing the memory of the rescue mission in Entebbe
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