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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (135670)	6/4/2004 10:33:07 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Nadine you may well be right in the short term, maybe even in the mid term. In the long term the ideas aren't killed by killing some of the leaders who hold them. Ideas strong enough that they lead men to die for them will find fertile ground in other men with more clever ways of countering the tactics that drove them underground. You could make the same argument regarding the futility of fighting fascism. To which the only sane reply was, never mind the bleeding long term, the fascists are trying to kill me now! Yet somehow, losing the war made fascism look less attractive. So even the long term argument doesn't hold water. Do you really think the ideas of Islamo-fascism - totalitarianism, hatred of the "Jews and Crusaders", and a desire to drive out the modern word with religious fanaticism - are so powerful and attractive that they will win in the long term? Do you really?