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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Bridge Player who wrote (68700)5/26/2008 10:59:59 PM
From: KonKilo  Read Replies (2) of 542067
 
So Brigadier General Cash is concerned because Radical Islam has been attacking the West since the ninth century and poses an existential threat, but then veers off that line of reasoning to say that we must stay on the attack in Iraq and extend it to Iran to ensure our supply of oil.

Since we have been on the receiving end of Islamic attacks for over 1200 years, and they still have not managed to end us, it might have served to bolster Gen. Cash's argument if he could have described what has changed recently to make Islam even more of a threat than they were in those other 12 centuries.

Invading sovereign nations for their oil? I don't think there'll be many songs written about that concept. Probably look kinda odd in our childrens' history books, too.

If that is the kind of nation we want to become, I suppose we could make SUVs mandatory for all citizens over the driving age.

BP, do you really agree with his argument?
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