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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (30578)	10/1/2001 10:11:00 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

We still aren't in agreement that Western culture is superior to Islamic culture. I don't think you can conclude that from the article you posted, at least not unless you are predisposed to conclude it. <<<...such remarks are simply unacceptable. All the more so from a head of government of a major American ally. Western leaders have, since the Sept. 11 attacks, bent over backward to distinguish the struggle against terrorism from a fight against Muslims or Islam more generally.>> I think the above is the key message in the article. It's not that they're denying the superiority of Western culture, they're objecting to waving it around like a red flag in front of a bull. There's a difference. They just want the guy's remarks back on the reservation because red flags are singularly unhelpful to the mission as the US has defined it. We don't want a holy war between the West and Islam. We want the war to be between all rational, reasonable folks on one side and terrorist, extremist nutters on the other. Karen