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To: Bilow who wrote (112277)	8/21/2003 5:14:10 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<"We simply have no other choice except to quarantine the entire region and cut them off from interaction with the rest of the world until they die off to "manageable" population levels ..." You're basically a genocidal maniac at heart. But I like you.> Carl, I'm no historian, but isn't that what the IRA moans about in regard to the potato famine and didn't Stalin put a ring around Ukraine before a big famine? Didn't the USA blockade Japan before WWII? Sounds a good strategy for Arabia. Though it could have consequences. Unintended ones. I prefer civilization. Has the USA thought of helping build an international constitution which will resolve a lot of problems over borders and tidy up borders? A new United Nations. Without Iraq in charge of human rights, Italians in charge of government, Germans in charge of the police, British in charge of cooking, Libya in charge of air safety ... etc... Mqurice

To: Bilow who wrote (112277)	8/21/2003 7:25:33 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

You're basically a genocidal maniac at heart. I ain't the one advocating destroying entire nations in the name of Allah.. You want to see genocide, let the militants assume control over the middle east.. They will kill everyone who opposes them, and then will seek to spread Jihad throughout the west. If there is any form of "genocide" I would want to engage in, it would be the elimination of the militant cleric networks throughout the world. Anyone who advocates militant Jihad (or crusade, for that matter) on behalf of a particular religion, is an enemy. And I would target every one of them that popped up upon the terrorist radar screen. But I like you. I'm underwhelmed... P.S. Kasserine pass was an incident in WW2, which was not a battle for "hearts and minds" like Iraq or Vietnam (or Iran for that matter). The invasion of N. Africa in WWII was an attack upon "non-Nazis" Vichy French. I don't see any difference.. Especially when Saddam had defied 17 different UNSC binding resolutions and had previous invaded and brutally pillaged a neighboring country. But you still haven't answer my question of a couple of days ago... WOULD YOU RATHER WE HAD INVADED SAUDI ARABIA??? They ARE complicit in 9/11, or at elements of the Saudi Royal family are... Iraq, Saudi Arabia... Both are means to an end... Namely an end to Wahhabist militantcy in the muslim world. Hawk