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To: Suma who wrote (42796)	4/15/2004 7:21:23 PM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (2) of 89467

Do you think we might have gained by some diplomacy instead of a rush to war ? War ... war??? Hmmm. I believe the "War On Terror" is a PR phrase, and little more. Under it's guise, the Bush Admin has achieved much of it's preelection agenda - domestic and foreign. This includes obtaining a more compliant regime in Afghanistan - i.e. one that looks more favorably on Central Asian - Afghanistan - Pakistan oil and gas pipelines. I believe one of the reasons Afghanistan is currently the poor-boy-on-the-block, is the earlier ideas of massive oil and gas reserves in Central Asia have not been fulfilled. All the world knows (even though some still refuse to admit) that Iraq was part of the agenda prior to Bush's election. The stories of Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz "chomping-at-the-bit to attack Iraq after 9-11 are now part of the "lore" of this Admin. The "enduring bases" currently being constructed in Iraq are meant to be part of the "enduring" legacy of the Iraqi incursion. The hegemony dreams so vividly exhibited in the writing's of the neo-cons (both at the PNAC site and elsewhere) are not dead. The Iraqi Tar Baby has (at most) merely put them on hold. Those "enduring bases" are meant to be stepping stones. There is a cultural war between western modernity and religious fundamentalism. And it's worldwide. What I believe 9-11 demonstrated was that the Arab theater of this cultural war needed to be addressed. And yes, you are correct. The first thing you do when combatting terrorists, is to separate them from the populace. Without the sympathy of the masses, they become vulnerable to standard law enforcement techniques. Immediately after 9-11 was the opportunity to make OBL a pariah even in the Arab world. Squandered, now OBL is viewed as a prophet who accurately predicted America would attack and occupy Arab lands. So, instead of separating OBL and his followers from the populace, they are now the heroes which the Arab youth seeks to emulate. JMO lurqer

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