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To: Dale Baker who wrote (2077)	7/21/2005 1:14:41 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542233

I was thinking today that Hamas and the Taliban and many similar groups had no trouble restocking their ranks even after thousands of comrades were jailed or killed. It would seem so, but I don't know that it would hold up over time. My condo tennis courts used to have waiting lines. People actually bought units here for the tennis courts. I haven't seen anyone on them in several years now. Orbits decay over time and I think with this "war" we have to take the long view. Not that anyone knows what the long term recruitment prospects might be. Just don't want to project a straight line because that surely would prove invalid.

To: Dale Baker who wrote (2077)	7/21/2005 5:05:49 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542233

no trouble restocking their ranks .... How do they do it? The extreme groups profit from the fact that the people in Iraq and to some extend Afganistan have fewer alternatives now than they did before the U.S. invasions. The inhabitants are now faced with dangerous collaberation with the occupiers, or harsh fundamentalist dictators. Formerly they had the option of being rather apolitical and sticking to their family and tribal concerns. It's been a long conflict, longer than WWII and many of them just want it to be over, even if that means an honorable suicide ending. TP