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Oh cripes where to start?

"I couldn't help but wonder whether George Bush had made the liberal left crazy."

So the lunacy of the lunatic left and the lunatics who support them is Bush's fault too?

"Moreover, the Bush team is such a ...nonhealing administration..."

Nonhealing? What kind of a word is that? Shouldn't it be unhealing? What, exactly, is supposed to healed here? Only in the NY Times, which used to be at least well written, can you find cr*p like this nowaday. I read an sentance on the first page, above the fold the other day that made me want to find the writer and throw a heavy object at him.

"Unless we begin the long process of partnering with the Arab world to dig it out of the developmental hole it's in, this angry, frustrated region is going to spew out threats to world peace forever."

Here's the old "root causes" BS. Forget it. Those Iraquis ain't so poor, neither are the Saudis. Mohammed Atta studied Engineering in Germany! You want to find poor people, go to the South Bronx, not too many heading off for Heidelberg from that neck of the woods.

"Second, we are seeing — from Bali to Istanbul — the birth of a virulent, nihilistic form of terrorism that seeks to kill any advocates of modernism and pluralism, be they Muslims, Christians or Jews. This terrorism started even before 9/11...Ultimately, only Arabs and Muslims can root out this threat, but they will do that only when they have ownership over their own lives and societies."

More bad writing, leading to, or stemming from, more bad thought. I'm very glad he realizes this started before 9/11, unfortunately he seems to think Islamic terrorism is still aborning, which would be a pretty long labor, one must note. However, the fact of the matter is the it is FULLY GROWN, male and approximately 19-35 years in age. The Islamics HAVE ownership of their societies, (although I admit that some of those societies are sufficiently repressive that individuals may not have control over their own lives) the problem is they want to have ownership of OUR societies.

You know, the so-called "Black September" movement committed one of the most horrible atrocities for prime time during the Munich Olympics in 1972, 30 years ago. Robert Kennedy was assassinated by a disgruntled Palestinian in 1968, 4 years before that. I was in the Middle East as a US sailor in 1975 and 1976, and we were told not to wear our uniforms on the beach (in Bahrain, the 'liberal' Gulf State) because we didn't want to 'offend' the locals. Let's face it; they've never had any love for us, they don't appreciate our 'decadent' ways, they don't like the role women play in Western society, and as for the Saudis, they consider us their freaking mercenaries on call to do their dirty work. Folks, it really is us against them; they're the ones who've set the standard. Don't ever forget, anybody, that an aroused, vengeful America is their worst fear. Because of the Internet, we've gone past the pro-liberal press. We've all connected and we're firm. What does anybody really think is going to happen if somebody else does something stupid like attack us again? Does anybody really, truly think that the majority of Americans will want to pull up stakes and bail? After Vietnam, after Mogadishu? By the way, where's the learned and saintly Nick DeGenova been hiding these days? In the words of 'Clubber Lang', 'I pity the fool who tries taking what's mine!'