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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (758969)	2/8/2007 9:25:18 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

So... it is not altogether unreasonable to expect that Islam will have to fight Islam for a considerable period of time... before the public on both sides of the Sunni/Shiite schism grows despairing enough to conclusively reject fundamentalist extremism. As you intimate in the paragraph previous to this, Christian reformation took a long time. You further suggest that things are speeded up these days, so Islamic reform will happen faster. The world is different now. Technology changes much faster than people do, and zealots rarely change at all. I do not see Muslim zealots EVER changing, and they are gaining power and ruthlessness by the day. An ancillary benefit, is that the Arab and Iranian publics would no-doubt grow to REJECT their corrupt, Autocratic rulers even sooner... for producing this bloody course of events! At least you put the blame where it belongs. However, I don't see any movement to that effect; in fact, it looks like the opposite to me. And, of course, the SHORT-TERM and the LONG-TERM benefits for the West are much more certain... practically etched in the pages of future history books already... so, regardless of how close Islam is to it's long-overdue Reformation... we stand to BENEFIT GREATLY almost IMMEDIATELY by getting out of the way of the Islamic civil war: In the short-term --- extremists would be pitted against each other, diverted from attacking our guys by the exigencies of their NEW CRISIS, the expanded inter-regional civil war in Iraq. I think extremists will just wipe out the uncommitted, followed by wiping out the weaker branch, and the winner will be sitting on the oil. In the mid-term --- oil prices would fall globally as BOTH sides pumped full-out to try to keep their heads above water and finance their war efforts. Maybe, but I see the sides trying to wipe out the oil infrastructure, driving the price up.