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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (278910)	3/7/2006 7:59:51 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1588984

re: One simplistic example of compromise would be the right putting away their neocon ideals, the left putting up some sort of stance against material and sexual decadence, and the Middle Easterners dropping their fears of modernism. OK one thing I notice right off the bat The right putting way "neocons ideals" (unspecified) The left against "material and sexual decadence" (pretty specific if humorous) The ME dropping "fears" of "modernism" A couple of points: The neocons have a goal of a New American Century, and their method is military dominance of the world. This is counter to a whole bunch of really smart folks that have run this country for generations. And counter to the countries values. Their first minor experiment Iraq, a pushover, has resulted in... well, you know how well we are doing in Iraq. The right is probably much more "material decadent" than the left. And in the real (non-fundamentalist propaganda) world, conservatives are, on average, just as sexually decadent as liberals. People are people, regardless of their politics. *The Middle East is really none of our business, except for the business of oil. We are not chasing after Africa to embrace "modernism", because Africa doesn't have resources that we covet. We desperately need to get off foreign oil, so that we don't care about modernism in the middle east. We are certainly not there to modernize; we are there to secure our Achilles heel. I know your views are burdened by your Christian prejudice, but in the end, you need to put your country ahead of your religion in politics. Politics/Religion don't mix, that's why we are a secular country. Wisdom of the founding fathers, and just plain common sense.