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To: LindyBill who wrote (43109)	9/10/2002 10:15:58 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (3) of 281500

The problem is the Islamist Culture that breeds and supports it...The action you prefer will kill the snakes that come out of the nest. I want to have us get rid of the nest. There remains the serious problem of how we can accomplish this. Defeating armies and overturning governments won't accomplish the objective: the enemy is not an army or a Government, but an ideology. Can you make people stop believing in a religion by defeating their armies and overturning their governments? Will their belief become less fervent or radical if they are invaded and occupied? Not likely. Wading into the ME and thrashing around with a big stick exposes us to a situation very similar to that which undid the Russians in Afghanistan. We do not want to occupy a large and hostile region. We do not want to try to create new Governments that we will be responsible for preserving. We want to protect ourselves, and that is the objective we have to keep in mind. Will a series of invasions and occupations make us more or less vulnerable to terrorist attack? That is the question we need to answer. My own suspicion is that the Islamists would be only too happy to see us wade in and start punching the tar baby.

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