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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (694297)7/29/2005 12:40:40 AM
From: Peter Dierks  Read Replies (3) of 769670
 
"Authoritarian leaders on BOTH SIDES of the battle (Saudi, Iranian, Syrian, etc.) would find themselves in an expensive, no-win conflict that would keep them occupied and internally focused... and would likely weaken their hold over their own populations.

All this would have much more benefit then harm to US interests.

Islam itself might ultimately come to reject religious extremism... moving closer to the centuries-delayed 'Islamic Reformation' as a result of the ultimate insanity of an Islamic religious war, formented by extremists on both sides."

That is avery well reasoned thought. I hope you are not as overly optimistic as I appear to be.

At some time in my life, I learned to try to stay out of the middle of fights between friends. I always seemed to get hurt and have them both mad at me. There ia nothing we can do to placate the extremists, so perhaps we just need to allow them to vent on someone else.
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