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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (2740)7/23/2004 2:56:57 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
I see the 9/11 Commission cut through liberal spin &
revisionist history regarding the WOT.

From page 362 of the 9/11 Report........

.....9/11 has taught us that terrorism against American interests
<font color=blue>“over there”<font color=black> should be regarded just as we regard terrorism against America
<font color=blue>“over here.”<font color=black> In this same sense, the American homeland is the planet.
But the enemy is not just <font color=blue>“terrorism,”<font color=black> some generic evil.2 This vagueness
blurs the strategy.The catastrophic threat at this moment in history is more specific.
It is the threat posed by Islamist terrorism—especially the al Qaeda network,
its affiliates, and its ideology.3

As we mentioned in chapter 2, Usama Bin Ladin and other Islamist terrorist
leaders draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within one stream
of Islam (a minority tradition), from at least Ibn Taimiyyah, through the
founders of Wahhabism, through the Muslim Brotherhood, to Sayyid Qutb.
That stream is motivated by religion and does not distinguish politics from religion,
thus distorting both. It is further fed by grievances stressed by Bin Ladin
and widely felt throughout the Muslim world—against the U.S. military presence
in the Middle East, policies perceived as anti-Arab and anti-Muslim, and
support of Israel. <font size=4>Bin Ladin and Islamist terrorists mean exactly what they say:
to them America is the font of all evil, the <font color=blue>“head of the snake,”<font color=black> and it must be
converted or destroyed.

It is not a position with which Americans can bargain or
negotiate. With it there is no common ground—not even
respect for life—on which to begin a dialogue. It can only
be destroyed or utterly isolated.
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9-11commission.gov
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