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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (114622)	9/12/2003 11:14:24 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Hawkmoon; Re: "Why don't you tell that to the families ..." Hey! Nice little emotional tug there! So you admit my point, that the number of people killed in combat in a real war is far, far, far, greater than the tiny number of Arabs who have killed themselves in suicide attacks. And that means that the Arabs are not a military threat. What a few Arabs are (and it is a very few that actually have the guts to tie explosives around themselves), is a criminal threat, not a military threat. You're making a mountain out of a molehill when you complain about the threat of Arabs blowing themselves up. Try to see it from the other side; the US has killed more people in a half day than Arab suicide bombers have killed in all of recorded history. Who should be afraid of whom? Why are you so afraid of them when the historical facts are so overwhelmingly indicative of our ability to crush them easily? Re: "And as these children become young adults over the next 10-15 years, this will be more threatening than anything Japan or Germany managed to achieve with their own "youth" programs." How do you know this? Are you psychic? Then why are the children of Iran, the oldest running Islamofascist state so far, so supportive of the United States? The facts are that you have zero evidence in favor of your claim. The simple fact is that children raised in a strict religious environment tend to rebel against it. This is a simple fact of human nature. I'm guessing it's in our genes. Did you know any Catholic girls when you were in college? I'm not imagining things when I state that these countries will fall into the palm of our hands like ripe fruit if we just leave them alone. Unlike you, who have zero evidence of any Moslem country pacified by Christians, absolutely zero evidence at all, I can point to the example of Iran. You have no evidence for your position, but you claim that I'm hiding from the truth. -- Carl