[wouldntbprudent]

Thank you --- I have been posting similiarly on these threads.

[Dark Skies]

I agree with both of you that the hamas win is positive in that it more clearly defines the enemy in the so-called Palestinians. Most of the concern on this thread and others like it however is for a larger issue.

Many people on FR, for a long time now, have been saying the democracy is NOT the antidote to fundamental islam. Such people are not wringing their hands so much as celebrating a Pyrrhic victory. The hamas election and the parlimentary wins by the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt point out that the Administration and all like-minded governments in the world need to go back to the drawing board and be honest with themselves about who the enemy is and how to defeat it.

Islam declared this war almost 1,400 years ago against the non-islamic world. Our enemy is not radical islam but just plain islam (as practiced by devout muslim). As Pipes says, democracy of the western variety can never take hold in the islamic world. Islam must first be uprooted.