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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (128294)	4/2/2004 9:52:11 PM
From: Sig	Respond to of 281500

<<<Any 5-year-old can tell you, that killing is wrong. You know it, everyone knows it. So, to convince yourself that killing is Good, you've got to tell yourself a Story that makes it OK. The Story can be purely imaginary, but it's necessary to Believe it, totally.>>> That was my first thought when those Iraqi kids were dancing and carving up our people. Why didn't someone care enough to make them go to church once week and attend bible study courses when their parents had neglected their education. To learn that killing is bad. My second thought was to wonder if we had nukes small enough to fit in our tank guns. Sig

To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (128294)	4/2/2004 11:10:36 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 281500

Any 5-year-old can tell you, that killing is wrong. You know it, everyone knows it. I would beg to differ. Many of the 5 year olds in the Middle East are on a one-way tract to becoming martyrs for Allah.. All at the behest of religious fanatics who think it's perfectly alright to sacrifice anyone who gets in the way of global Jihad.. Lest yee forgot Jacob.. the original muslims were hell-bent on spreading Islam as far as they could. They were only stopped by Charles the Hammer at Poiters, France... Of course, Catholics were just as hell-bent on spreading Christianity by the sword. However, modern day Islamic militants see themselves as being the next wave of Allah's soldiers spreading perpetual Jihad... And this time they have an advance guard of Muslims emigrating to Europe, ready to be radicalized when the time is right and they have the means to intimidate the entire continent.. But the one thing standing in their way is Israel and the US.. Israel because it's a nuclear thorn in their side, and the US because it's the sole superpower able to protect the global economic and political system they so despise. Maybe you can't see this, but it doesn't take much imagination to see the end game for the Islamic militant movement. That is, if we permit it to happen... But the question is what are we willing to do about it before they become so powerful that they have the ability to send their suicide bombers to our shores armed with WMDs? Is that what it's going to take to make a believer out of you? To make you realize that, distasteful and uncivilized as it may be, killing the bad guys is the only way in which we'll be able to guarantee our safety? Only Americans, and fewer of them every day, think we stand for freedom, democracy, elections, and progress, in the Middle East. Well, I'm sure you're already packing your bags in expectation of your pending emigration to a far more democratic country... While in the meantime, there are millions of people in other country just dying to swap places with you.. Hawk