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To: carranza2 who wrote (14691)	11/19/2008 9:12:01 AM
From: Don Earl	3 Recommendations Respond to of 71456

RE: "peaceful like the Swiss is not an adjective I'd use" Good point. Of course, you might also note the Swiss were never assaulted for centuries by religious crusaders who thought they were infidels. The Swiss don't have any oil. Israel hasn't ever attacked the Swiss or aimed nukes at them. We've never armed the nearest neighbor of the Swiss with chemical weapons and sent advisors to help try them out on their general population, or provided funding and weapons of that neighbor for the better part of a decade. And of course, if the Swiss want to build a power plant, no one sends in bombers to blow it up. The funny thing about peaceful people is if you leave them alone, they tend to stay peaceful.

To: carranza2 who wrote (14691)	11/19/2008 10:21:39 AM
From: Real Man	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71456

Some muslims are very nutty and not too peaceful. However, I don't think Iran wanted to attack the United States, quite the opposite - through rather clever nuke diversion, Iranian president played both Bush and US - driven UN to prevent a US attack. In general, blood revenge and stuff runs high in traditions of these countries, so ... things could be bad later. It would be much better for us not to go anywhere near that region of the globe unless we are attacked. BWDIK? You just can't convert them into Western ways, nor should that be attempted. The only leader who found a successful way to deal with a muslim region was Stalin, and the way was genocide. Not an acceptable behavior for a civilized nation, really, but it can be used while at war if the nation is threatened. If you get weak, they attack, terrorism. All just IMHO. Note that the 911 folks and Bin Laden are Saudi Citizens. A different, "friendly", country.