To: Hawkmoon who wrote (112191 ) 8/21/2003 12:00:42 AM From: Bilow Read Replies (5) | Respond to Hi Hawkmoon; Re: "To create some semblance of economic opportunity for the people who live there, to create a Mashall plan for the middle east. And finally, to force Moderate muslims to take a position against the extremists and force the religious civil war that needs to be wages within Islam which will decide its future direction. "I've also OFTEN pointed out that we have a potential for 4 million Islamic fanatics to take up arms against the west (1% of the 400 million muslims currently under the age of 18) over the coming 5-10 years. And all of this would occur REGARDLESS of whether we had invaded Iraq or not. "No Bilow, you have to face it, and confront it. Not cut and run, screaming your defeatist rhetoric, whenever the you can't stand the heat in the kitchen. "And while you might have been right that Bush might have had difficulties in "selling" a war against Iraq, I don't believe he'll have much difficulty in convincing the American people that fighting terrorism(ts) on their home soil is preferable to fighting them here. "Communists on their home soil is preferable to fighting them here." This was the essence of the "domino theory", but it failed to convince the American public to stick it out. We eventually pulled out of 'Nam, and we will pull out of Iraq too. But faster, since the public was not united even going into Iraq, unlike Vietnam.
