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To: NOW who wrote (107545)	10/9/2004 7:49:21 PM
From: skinowski	Respond to of 209892

TE, let me try to answer this tomorrow... I have my tux on, and I'm late... My wife will kill me if I'm not out this second... -g

To: NOW who wrote (107545)	10/10/2004 10:33:18 AM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 209892

OT -- tell me one thing: are you not concerned that most experts believe that the sutuation in Iraq has dramatically increased the number of terrorist recruits around the globe? This is a good question, but it only makes sense when examined in the wider historical context. And the nation is deeply divided about it. Americans traditionally were somewhat isolationist. We have a very difficult time understanding - and believing - that we are at war with a global movement of fanatical religious theocrats. This is why Bush may lose the election - because it is easier to criticize this war, then it is to explain it. But it is real, and we will not be given a chance to avoid it. I think that liberating Iraq was a good and powerful idea. Removing a dictator with expansionist and nuclear ambitions - a sworn enemy - and helping Iraq to develop into a "normal" country - this may become a defining point in history... it may help turn back the global resurgence of Islamist extremism. Iraqi campaign is only one battle in the larger conflict... but it is a very important battle. Iraqi army and police are becoming stronger. Before long, they may be able to take over the fight against the insurgents. Saudi regime is no longer paying off Al Qaeda, but is in an open state of war against them. Pakistan chose to turn against Islamist extremists, and is now at war with its own insurgents. Either the bad guys - and the danger they present - are real, or they are not. I think they are absolutely real. Either we do what we must to turn them back, or - in the end - we are sitting ducks, waiting for more attacks... which would come. Cutting an abscess is not a pretty picture, but without that, there can be no cure.