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To: Road Walker who wrote (338513)	5/24/2007 5:16:42 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577024

Behind the headline The headline in USA Today declared: "Poll: Most Muslims seek to adopt American lifestyle." Blogger Ace of Spaces, ace.mu.nu, declared: "Personally, I'm a little bit more worried about the 26 percent of young Muslim males who want to kill me, but it's good to know that 'most Muslims' seek to adopt the American lifestyle.' (Which may or may not involve killing Americans.)" The USA Today story was based on a Pew Research Center poll that found that 26 percent of U.S. Muslims under age 30 believe that suicide bombings can be justified. The same poll found only 40 percent of U.S. Muslims believe that "Arab men" carried out the September 11 terrorist attacks.

To: Road Walker who wrote (338513)	5/24/2007 5:18:51 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577024

Reagan vs. RFK "On May 15, 1967, there was a fascinating debate between California's new Republican governor, Ronald Reagan, and New York's new Democratic senator, Robert F. Kennedy. The subject: the Vietnam War. The debate ... was billed by CBS as a 'Town Meeting of the World.' ... The debate was watched by a huge audience: 15 million Americans. "There was total agreement, including among media sources who revered Bobby Kennedy ... that Reagan overwhelmingly won the debate. 'To those unfamiliar with Reagan's big-league savvy,' reported Newsweek, 'the ease with which he fielded questions about Vietnam may have come as a revelation.' ... "David Halberstam acknowledged that 'the general consensus' was that 'Reagan ... destroyed him.' ... "Alarmed viewers looking for a defense of the United States as anything other than history's greatest purveyor of global misery were frustrated by Kennedy's lame responses but buoyed by Reagan's strong retorts." -- Paul Kengor, writing on "The Great Forgotten Debate," Tuesday at NationalReview.com