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To: TimF who wrote (9338)11/20/2009 1:58:29 PM
From: Peter Dierks  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 15994
 
To the extent that the youth leave the conservative fairly inflexible traditional local ways, it gives more of a chance for the country to modernize, but also more of a chance for violent radicals, and terrorists to recruit.


I guess it comes down to who has a better sales pitch. Is an iPod cooler, or 24 x 7 religious studies leading to being the short fuse for a bomb?

When there is no penetration of American culture the sales pitch is between the old ways and being the bomb detonator and getting 72 Virginians.