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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: paul_philp who wrote (59041)11/27/2002 1:23:49 AM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Katherine van Wormer is a Professor of Social Work at the University of Northern Iowa


You read this piece by a "Soft Science" Professor, and Friedmans piece on the fact that we may be entering into "War Of Civilizations" and it opens up some different lines of thought.

I watched a piece on PBS News last night on the "Anti-War" protesters and they made it obvious that the core of the movement was on Campus. It's ideological leaders are the Liberal Arts and Soft Science Professors who are Pacifists by nature and really dislike our present Admin no matter what they do. People like Wormer who wrote this nonsense for Counter Punch.

Then you have the thinking left, like Friedman, who realize just how big the problem is, and are coming around to the view that we can't set back and pacify these Islamists. They have to be broken. We are seeing more and more with this viewpoint.

When you look at the number of Muslims in the World, and see the unrest everywhere, it is easy to take Carls viewpoint (which is Buchanans) and say, "We can't stop them, too many of them, the best thing is to retreat to our Borders and appease them." But fortunately we don't have to take them all on, just chop the head off the "snake" of Wahhabism. We have to make the Saudis stop funding the Terrorists, confine or kill every Terrorist we can identify, and keep an unremitting pressure on them.
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