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To: epicure who wrote (168540)	8/9/2005 8:21:50 PM
From: Keith Feral	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<I have no idea where you think the "right" comes from that would prevent people from doing this.> People need to be protected from religious intolerance. We protect the freedom of religion and require the separation of Church and State in this country. Any body has the free will to prevent religious freedom, just as much as everyone has the free will to exercise their religious beliefs. However, as a society, we also have the free will to execute people that threaten all people that will not yield to their demands. We also have the right to kill foreigners that are deliberately trying to plan ways to attack buses and subways full of innocent people. I'm not blaming the press for al quaeda's decision to launch a war against the "enemies" of Islam - Jews, Christians, minority Islamic factions, and all undesirables. I am only suggesting that the press is making it impossible for the Iraqi and US troops to wipe out the resistance. The rules of engagement have changed dramatically from Afghanistan. The press has pressured lawyers for the army to protect the rights of the people we are trying to kill. I think the Iraqi troops will be able to get much more aggressive once the press and military lawyers are out of the way. Resistance is a function of relgious fatwas that keep insurgents flowing in from foreign countries through Syria. They are recruiting the resistance by profiling killer wanted ads throughout the ME. Right now, they are looking for wealthy Saudis to help join the cause. They seem to be running low on funds and equipment. I think it's pretty far fetched to imagine that the people in the ME could launch a civil war against their governments which exercise total control over their people. They have no hope to overcome the brutality of the religious intolerance of their leaders. You can't really say that the countries in the ME are determining their own course. I don't think it would be wise to encourage any more upheaval in the ME. We need to get most of the soldiers back home next year.