[DeaconBenjamin]

Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine. And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to understand, how shall it be known what is spoken? For ye shall speak into the air.
I Corinthians 14: 6-9

[mathurine]

The straights of Malacca are the choke point for oil shipments from the middle east to Japan. The straights are not of stategic importance to America on any usual basis, but they are critical to the Japanese, who do have the potential to patrol them if need be. Islamic terrorists might consider that they have, we might say, aggravated the United States, seem unpopular now with the Indians, gross out the Russians, infuriate the Chinese, blew up a lot of Australians and now could get the Japanese in on things. How many virgins do they have to spare?