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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: redfish who wrote (38308)	7/28/2004 5:21:30 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

redfish. You said...." The WTC was attacked by Al Qaeda, not by radical islam."..... And you think that al qaeda is not radical?? Here is the original question you asked ...just so as to not get to far of the original topic....." You said....." How exactly is RADICAL islam a threat to me? "..... And here is my answer to your question....." Had you been in the World Trade Center 9/11 you may not be able to ask that question....or if you had been where so many other innocent people were when their lives were snuffed out by Radical islam."..... Your math appears to be ok...course I didn't look real close ..... You said....." I imagine that by radical islam you mean extreme fundamentalists of the wahhabi variety ... people who don't even consider the other islamic sects to be legitimate."..... No, that's not my idea of radical islam. I believe that there are a number of different radical groups within islam that will kill in the name of their religion. al qaeda is only one of them and likely the most dangerous one. Let me ask you something....would you consider the arab militia in the Sudan to be radical islam? They apparently just slaughtered 30,000 or so innocent tribes people in the Sudan simply because they are not muslim. Here is an article about radical islam. Rolling Back Radical Islam RALPH PETERS carlisle-www.army.mil From Parameters, Autumn 2002, pp. 4-16. You cannot win a war if you do not fight, and you cannot win a peace through inattention. In peace and war, the American response to the violent extremism that so damages the Islamic world has been as halting and reactive as it has been reluctant. We simply do not want to get involved more deeply than “necessary.” But Muslim extremists are determined to remain involved with us. We are not at war with Islam. But the most radical elements within the Muslim world are convinced that they are at war with us. Our fight is with the few, but our struggle must be with the many. For decades we have downplayed—or simply ignored—the hate-filled speech directed toward us, the monstrous lessons taught by extremists to children, and the duplicity of so many states we insisted were our friends. But nations do not have friends—at best, they have allies with a confluence of interests. We imagine a will to support our endeavors where there is only a pursuit of advantage. And we deal with cynical, corrupt old men who know which words to say to soothe our diplomats, while the future lies with the discontented young, to whom the poison of blame is always delicious.