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To: michael97123 who wrote (189425)	6/15/2006 2:41:12 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

In the end we might have to have the will to do this once again. As in the case of our constant "cold war" with the Soviets, we constantly displayed our will to retaliate against them, to make them realize that if we go down, they're coming with us. Had we NOT adopted this stance, it's quite likely their "hawks" would have perceived this as weakness on our part and we would no longer exist as a nation/state (certainly not in the form we currently hold dear). Sure.. we could have appealed to their geo-political interests and let them have the rest of the world, while we "hunkered down" and presented ourselves from taking any provocative stance to confront them. But then we'd be left alone in this world. And it's likewise, although we're confronting Islamo-Fascism in its nascent stages, that we may find ourselves standing in a very, very, thin group of principled governments willing to stand up to them. There's simply no reason that we have to repeat history and permit hundreds of millions of people throughout the muslim world to have to bear the repercussions of not confronting this fanatical ideology before it gains traction in that region. And it's out obligation to ensure that the current non-democratic governments in the region which are JUST AS RESPONSIBLE for the appeal of I-F ideology, to reform their governments, while cracking down on those who would seek to deny democratic reforms. Hawk