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To: marcos who wrote (117136)	10/18/2003 1:25:03 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

So how about the case where the baseball coach has driven the team bus to a particular stadium 'at a time and place of his choosing', where it so happens that a great many other people wish and expect to play football that day .... Not sure if I'm following your analogy, or if it applies. The "game" has been in progress for years now. It's called war.. THEY (the Islamo-Fascists, and the Baathists) are the ones who have forced the US to engage in this battle. While the real struggle is against Islamo-Fascists, it has been facilitated by political terrorism and aggression from the likes of the Baathist regimes of Iraq and Syria. They are "stepping stones" in the battle the US must wage against the Islamo-Fascists since they incite turmoil and instability amongst the Muslim world. The "game" analogy is not designed, nor intended, to define the strategy I opine is currently being implemented by the Bush administration. But what is key is NOT to permit your opponents to impose their own anarchic and militant "rules" on the "playing field". Their rules will only perpetuate the socio-economic agony, despair, and desperate fear the muslim world currently endures at the hands of despots and militant clerics. Which suggests that maybe yourself, and others of your ilk, have failed to understand the "game" that the other side is playing.. It sure as h*ll isn't baseball or football... But just as evident is that they are playing for keeps and we're standing in their way. Hawk