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To: epicure who wrote (131218)	5/4/2004 12:57:16 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) of 281500

You've got to be kidding. Who wants America to lose the war? Then let's phrase it this way.. Who wants America to win? Certainly not the Islamists.. I am sure some people here think a win isn't possible, given the rather unbelievable objective our administration had, but that is nowhere near wanting America to lose. Listen.. the opposite of winning is losing. It's a zero-sum game.. We either have democracy, or we don't. I don't see any middle ground.. Certainly not with the demographic pressures that are rapidly building up throughout the region. And what we're losing is the one major opportunity we've had in the past 80 years to try and inject democratic reforms into a region dominated by totalitarian and non-democratic regimes. The world is losing X.. the entire world. Because without a global effort and unified will to mandate that governments in the muslim world be accountable at the ballot box, then we're going to see one form of corrupt and relatively benign totalitarianism superceded by a far more militant version.. Hawk

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