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To: NightOwl who wrote (129327)	4/15/2004 4:25:22 AM
From: Harvey Allen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The best way to accomplish that is to get Donald Trump to go down to Washington and say "You're fired". I am not arguing objectives. I am arguing competence. I don't know if you were around in the Johnson/Rusk/MacNamra days but that's the kind of thing I'm talking of. Unfortunately we ended up with Nixon. 1969 - In March, Richard Nixon announces secret talks have been taking place. As of April, 33 thousand American troops have been killed in Vietnam. 1975 - Of the Americans, 58,226 were killed in action or classified as missing in action. So 58,226 - 33,000 leaves Nixon accountable for 25,226 Harvey A

To: NightOwl who wrote (129327)	4/15/2004 8:40:34 AM
From: Harvey Allen	Respond to of 281500

One pores through American government studies on Islam without finding as much as a sentence on the question: what is the spiritual experience of believing Muslims? Muslims fly airplanes into skyscrapers, or walk into supermarkets with bomb belts, or pull Kalashnikovs from under their wares in the Sadr City bazaar because the West confronts them with an existential threat. Of what does this existential threat consist? The Islamic specialists at American think-tanks stand baffled before such fervor. They are ideologues trained in analyzing structures of belief. But the vast majority of Muslims have no interest in ideology in the sense that the modern West understands the term. Religion for them is an existential matter, of one substance with the smallest details of their daily lives. Secular Americans press their noses against the window-glass, gazing at Islam from the outside in. Why Islam baffles America atimes.com