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To: epicure who wrote (205835)	10/14/2006 11:28:28 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I would have to disagree with (what I perceive to be) your premise that religion "makes sense", that is to say, is logical and reasonable. It's not. Not at all. Thomas Aquinas tried to use logic to "prove" the existence of God but he fiddled it. Pretty much every religious person accepts that religion is mysterious and not rational. Terrorism makes a kind of sense, as I said, in an existential situation. In Israel, the Palestinians want the Israelis out of Israel. In Ireland, the IRA wants the Brits out of Northern Ireland. In Nazi France, the Resistance wanted the Germans out of France. In Iraq, Al Qaeda wants to drive out every other version of Islam in Iraq. But here are the two major flaws I see vis-a-vis sectarian terrorism in Iraq. First and foremost, as I said, Sunnis and Shi'as and the various tribes have been living cheek-by-jowl for centuries and can't rationally believe that they can succeed in completely destroying or throwing out the other side(s). And, also, the ones who use terrorism to make the Coalition forces leave must know that the Coalition would have left months ago if they just quit killing people, and must certainly know that the Coalition doesn't intend to leave until Iraq is pacified.