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To: steve harris who wrote (188431)	5/12/2004 7:57:13 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574761

re: Are you advocating abandoning Israel? Stop buying middle east oil? I'm not sure on Israel, never have been. But could you explain why we couldn't buy ME oil if we withdrew our forces from the area? Only goal there is. Kill them or be killed. Is there a better one? So, you want to destroy Islam? Quite a project. You may not have noticed but at the moment our military is losing a war against a backward country the size of California. What are there, 10,000, 50,000, 100,000 Al Qaeda operatives on the entire planet? To defeat terrorists you have to understand them. The beheading in and of itself wasn't a significant or unique event, 700 of our troops have been killed in Iraq. It's the terror that it caused that makes it important. Eight Al Qaeda and a video camera can cause more political change than an army of 100,000 soldiers. You are not going to fight them by sending armies to where they are not. You can fight them by beefing up intelligence services and police departments. By increasing worldwide cooperation, something that would have been easy to accomplish after 9/11. To use your cockroach analogy, they are hidden everywhere in the house. You can blow up the house, but they will just move next door. Or you can seek them out and kill them one by one. You will never get them all, live with it. It's not as sexy as shock and awe, but it's worked in the past and it can work again. How was everything great until Bush took over? It was a hell of a lot better, and it was getting incrementally better, as it had been since Nixon ended Vietnam. Bush and the neocons have made the world dramatically worse, more dangerous. They've destroyed what took generations to build. John