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To: tejek who wrote (214474)	1/8/2005 10:16:42 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572503

If you want to do something big in the ME, then do something big peacefully. Let me take you back to 1938-39, or thereabouts. Hitler was marching across Europe and it appeared that he might be unstoppable. Many in France and other Western countries, were advocating peace treaties with Hitler and believed that the hawks were just bloodthirsty lunatics. A few including Winston Churchill knew that the monster could not be appeased and tried to rally the rest of the world against Hitler to no avail. Why? Because many did not recognize evil when they saw it and felt that the path of least resistance would result in the fewest lives lost. How incredibly wrong they were! If we don't learn the lessons of history, then we are doomed to repeat them. Hitler was a fascist monster. Muslim Fundamentalism is a resurgence of fascism in the form of a religion, which makes it even MORE dangerous given that there is no gov't to strike and we live in a world where PC taboos have made it difficult to fight a religion. So when I see posts like the one in italics above, I see well-meaning Americans, who are hopelessly naive. This is a monster we are facing and there is no peaceful response to fundamental Islam that will result in minimizing the number of Americans or other innocent lives being lost. The best and only response to militant Islam is to fight it with all of our diplomatic, economic, and military power, allied with aid of all of our friends, and to do so relentlessly. I believe fighting through economics would have achieved longer lasting results. But I was never under the illusion that it would never come to a military response. That is where we differ. The use of our military against elements in the Middle East was inevitable the minute Osama bombed New York. If it wasn't Iraq, then it would have been at a time and place of Osama's choosing. I'm glad we chose the battlefield instead. I just wish we had more inspired leaders in place to handle the longer term elements of this struggle.