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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (118577)	11/4/2003 8:44:19 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Would that be sufficient to get you to understand the nature of the enemy we're fighting, and the need to utterly eliminate the ideology/theology that motivated such attacks ? The only thing that will really eliminate the fundamentalist ideas behind such attacks is what ended the grip the Church had on Europe till the end of the Middle Ages - scientific, social, and moral progress. Today only the democratic West offers this. That's the bottom line, really, and more than all the security measures we have today what protects us against attacks on our own soil. [ I'm not saying we don't need airport security or police forces, but the biggest factor by far is cultural. ] If we look at China, progress and a gradual shift to democracy is the direction they are taking, not an obsession over Jews (or Taiwan.) It's going to take far less time for the global system to eliminate this fundamentalist Islam turd than it took to exit the Middle Ages. We're on Internet Time, and oil is going to run out, which will eliminate the easy money that has financed the Whabbists. Iraq is a strategic mid term play - maybe it'll play out and the world price of oil will be stabilized, more than paying for rebuilding the country. but even if that doesn't work, fundamentalist Islam is still going nowhere.