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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49207)	10/6/2005 11:19:59 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Bush today "The militants believe that controlling one country will rally the Muslim masses, enabling them to overthrow all moderate governments in the region and establish a radical Islamic empire that spans from Spain to Indonesia." Something similar on November 28, 2003 .... ................. Thanks to the US, freedom of action that allows us to speak and differ, is now a new coinage in the Arab world, which is of historic magnitude. The very reason that an Iraqi can call Bush a 'usurper' is a success in the war on terror. The war on terror is freedom from the shackles of primitiveness, and that is the big picture post 911 strategy. I see it not as neoconism or a new crusade, but action for the collective good of the world, freeing Islam from people who want to hijack it in the name of blood orgies. From Bali to Istanbul the fight remains a single-minded resolve to free our world from influence of cave man who want to rob our freedoms. The challenge is to bring the Arab world out from the cave age and from the cradle of conspiracy theories. Muslims must take a giant step to incorporate a free press where 'expression of dissent' is guaranteed in an era of new self-determination. The Bush Administration sees this and hence its ability to convert the most hardened on its side. The likes of Musharraf, Prince Abdullah and Erdogan are ex-hardliners within the context of Islamic freedom movements. However they are now the staunchest of US allies. The US needed the pivotal countries of the Muslim world to carry its fight to the enemy. How strange that the left in the US is unable to appreciate the alliance of the most unwilling that this administration has been able to sew. If this is not a diplomatic success -- carrying a big stick and dangling big carrots -- what is? The fight against Al-Qaeda is helping the cause of freedom in two ways. One is that the cancer is clear and presents itself as a defined target that can be confronted. Every suicide bomber leaves a trail that closes doors for 100 other possible bombers. Turks in Istanbul or Saudis in Jeddah blowing themselves up are not in retaliation to US actions but as a result of the inability of Al-Qaeda to destroy Western homes.....................contd iranian.com Waiting for Allah Defeatism in the Islamic World has become a currency and self-inflicted pain has become pleasure November 28, 2003 The Iranian