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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (117274)	10/20/2003 3:13:21 AM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Strategic vs. tactical retreat: He says the Muslims should stop making war, and concentrate on internal economic development, until their nations are: <stable and well administered,....economically and financially strong, industrially competent and technologically advanced> How long do you think that is going to take? I think we're talking about a time period a lot longer than 8 years. Even if every Muslim nation used Malaysia as a model (development, peace with neighbors), it'd take a few generations. The functional equivalent of forever. Yes, he is only proposing this truce, as a temporary measure, out of recognition of Islam's current economic/technological weakness. But it will take so long to fix that weakness, maybe everyone will have forgotten by then, why their great-great-grandfathers did targetted assassinations and suicide bombings to each other.