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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (172311)	10/24/2005 1:15:43 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

don't you think that some of their eager audience will ask them about the specific tactics and technics of civil warfare and implement it there and then outside of Iraq in Jordan, Egypt, or even migrate to EU or US in a few years and rampage through the streets here? Sun Tzu.. Do a few internet searches and you'll find PLENTY of that stuff available. If the presence of US forces on Arab soil is some kind of provocation that is responsible for motivating Muslims to become militant Jihadists, then explain pre-9/11 Afghanistan to me and why Arab militants able to operate there with impunity as they plotted their attacks against the West? Bottom line Sun Tzu, is that we are facing an rise in Islamic militancy. We can spend endless words discussing the demographic, socio-political, and economic causes and the various "cause/effect" analysis. But it all leads us back to people teaching young people to dehumanize their fellow man as an infidel, pig, takfir and teaching that these sub-humans deserve to die because they don't subscribe to the same teachings as the elitist religious warriors. Now, of course, in fighting against these militants, we Westerners also tend to dehumanize them as Hajis, Skinnies, Ragheads, and a few other more profane nicknames. It really doesn't matter what we do in Iraq. Eventually we'll be fighting them on our own soil (or hunkering behind our borders waiting for the next terrorist strike). Hawk