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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
AMAT 322.32-5.6%Jan 30 9:30 AM EST

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To: Fred Levine who wrote (67137)12/16/2002 5:45:40 PM
From: skinowski  Read Replies (1) of 70976
 
Apologies… I should have read more attentively. Let’s make a deal: I’ll read yours posts closer, and you read mine -g. Interesting, that in your reply you chose to mention Jordan – the “home” of the original Muslim ‘Jihad’ against an aggressive disruptive element, which at the time threatened their countries stability and even its survival.

Still, I think that trying to “buy” the support of Muslim moderates (as you said we “bought” Musharraf) simply will not work.

I think that ‘moderates’ are sufficiently ‘sold’ on the West… this is part of the reason that the extremists have become more assertive in the first place. People will not fight and risk their lives for an opportunity to sell their goods to America at deflated prices… They WILL stand up and fight, however, if they see a real and present danger to themselves and their families.

I hope that they will understand that they ARE in such a danger, and that they’ll understand it SOON. We – and those Muslim Moderates – are tied up in this together: either we together get THEIR extremists under control, or we’ll both suffer the consequences… and they’ll be in one hell of a lot more trouble than we.
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