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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RMF who wrote (18636)	12/23/2006 8:18:17 PM
From: ILCUL8R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

Be careful of doing a historical reprise on this thread. Too many of its posters already have their minds made up about everything. But, for the courageous, here is an article from the Slate emagazine dated May 7, 2004. Its message rings more true now than ever before: slate.com Here is a snippet from the article: George W. Bush has governed, for the most part, the way any airhead might, undermining the fiscal condition of the nation, squandering the goodwill of the world after Sept. 11, and allowing huge problems (global warming, entitlement spending, AIDS) to metastasize toward catastrophe through a combination of ideology, incomprehension, and indifference. If Bush isn't exactly the moron he sounds, his synaptic misfirings offer a plausible proxy for the idiocy of his presidency. Here is another snippet from the same article: Well into his plans for invading Iraq, Bush still couldn't get down the distinction between Sunni and Shiite Muslims, the key religious divide in a country he was about to occupy. The entire article is worth a read.

To: RMF who wrote (18636)	12/24/2006 6:54:56 AM
From: lorne	Respond to of 32591

RMF...."Five years later it would seem that we have not only NOT swept away the "radical groups" but have created exponentially MORE of those groups.".... Disagree.. Radical islam has always been a problem to the world. What is different now is that world attention is now focused on the daily atrocities committed by these people. Check out some India history and see if radical islam was present hundreds of years ago. Today we have instant news available and are able to see these killers at work.

To: RMF who wrote (18636)	12/24/2006 7:15:32 AM
From: lorne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32591

rmf...." As a result, we have MORE chaos in the Middle East than we've ever seen."..... Better there than here don't you agree... have you forgotten already 9/11...at least now they are murdering each other in stead of innocent people over here. IMO the more chaos in the ME the better and the sooner things will be resolved in that sick islamic part of the world. I don't understand people like you that can not understand that islam has been killing innocent people all over the world for 1400 years while expanding there religious cult...there is nothing new now..maybe weapons and the ability of one single crazed islamic to murder many innocent people at one time...and of course with our instant news available to us we ..the civilized world...can no longer ignore the atrocities committed on a daily basis somewhere in the world each and every day. So IMO...nothing new just now we are paying attention as we must after 9/11...the world can no longer pretend this islamic threat to the civilized world does not exist... So IMO things are going to get worse with the islam world and us not better. And just cuz the democrats or some other misguided political groups thinks they can be friends with and negotiate with radical islam to make things better is only a stupid dream. Islam must be defeated in every sense of the word.