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To: axial who wrote (22736)	3/31/2002 1:15:46 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

Instead of the US, Europe, and Saudi Arabia withholding funds, we'll just throw them a few trillion more, and watch them blow themselves to smithereens! Well, maybe if Saudi Arabia had witheld funds from all of those extremist schools were they teach young boys nothing but how to recite verses from the Koran, we wouldn't need to worry about this mess. Because extremist Islam was fostered in Egypt and fueled by the Wahabbis of Saudi Arabia. Why negotiate, when it's all so easy? And negotiation, by its VERY DEFINITION, requires at least TWO parties interacting and resolving to settle their problems through discussion, and not bullets. Chamberlain tried to "negotiate" with Hitler, giving him Czechoslovakia... All that did was encourage his aggression, believing that the West was unwilling to risk war to oppose his aggression. There's a time for negotiation, and there's a time for action. And in the case of these muslim extremists, trying to negotiate with them is like trying to negotiate with a Kamikaze pilot. Thus, this is a time for action in which we have to disrupt and disable the command, control, and financial networks of these extremist networks before they are able to regroup, or carry out actions on other fronts. What you seem to overlook is that this is a civil war between muslim moderates and reactionaries. Those who believe Islam can cohabitate with Western ideas such as capitalism and democracy, and those who believe that the Koran is a complete political, economic, and social guidebook requiring NO other modification. These are people who are trying to reclaim the imperialist glory of Islamic Jihad from a thousand years ago. People who seldom target soldiers with the means to defend themselves, but rather, focus on targeting defenseless civilians. People who mimic in many ways, the fanaticism of the Samurai culture, where how one dies is more important than how one lives. And they have more than sufficient "fodder" in the form of some 400-500 million young muslims under the age of 18, out looking for a way to make "their mark" in the world. That's why negotiation, at this point, is futile. They have demographics on their side and they know it. One can only delay the day of reckoning between the West and extremist Islam, and hope to mitigate and isolate its impact. But for the next 20 years, there simply won't be enough jobs for all of those muslim kids... especially in a culture rife with massive corruption. So negotiate if you want.. But good luck finding a extremist muslim willing to engage in genuine discussion. They know time, and demographics favor them. Hawk