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To: ratan lal who wrote (11362)	11/24/2001 9:35:09 AM
From: BigBull	Respond to of 281500

Yes very interesting. And yet it seems "ISLAM", the political movement, is given a free pass because it is couched in religious terminology. The West solved the problem of outdated religious ideas determining political and economic life long ago. Still it seems curiously incapable of helping the ME in this regard. I suspect the Cold War had much to do with this. Re military realities. I recently watched an MSNBC special on the Gulf War that was hosted by General Schwarzkopf. It seems that even when US armoured forces were outnumbered and trapped in "kill zones" they rapidly overcame their adversaries. Why? It seems that Iraqi soldiers simply had no concept of how TIME had changed on the modern battlefield. The rate and coordination of fire was so rapid that they were shocked into inaction. They had no conception of how fast immense firepower could be brought to bear. It has been 10 years since the gulf war and the technology of war has evolved to an even greater degree. It will be interesting to see how the US military evolves to fight the "Terror Wars". CIA Ninja divisions armed with robotic weapons?

To: ratan lal who wrote (11362)	11/24/2001 2:26:06 PM
From: SirRealist	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Last night on 'Politically Incorrect', Bill Maher had the minister Robert Schuller on, and he made some exceptional points, surprising me, as I tend to be televangelist-proof. The gist was we can quibble from here to forever on the bad parts of any religion but he prefers to dream about the possibilities ahead than the blame behind. He felt a chief positive that the Islamic world could achieve was the setting up of an ecclesiastic council that speaks for the whole. Presently, there is no common center, which permits regional lessers to define how Muslims should act, and this permits a host of bad interpretations, particularly from extremists, who gain most of the publicity. Setting up a central council - and he suggests the Grand Mufti in Damascus as the world's leading Muslim - will provide a voice for the mainstream Islamic believers. I think he nailed it.