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Great op-ed on defining the "enemy" in the War on Terror
1 posted on 08/22/2006 12:40:53 PM PDT by laissez- faire
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To: laissez- faire

They hate us because our system, including our system of religion, shows their system to be a loser.


2 posted on 08/22/2006 12:45:09 PM PDT by My2Cents (A pirate's life for me.)
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To: laissez- faire; BurbankKarl; Coop; jeffers

BTTT

Glad you posted this. Steele is top notch:


"Islamic extremists don't hate the West because they are oppressed by it. They hate it precisely because the end of oppression and colonialism -- not their continuance -- forced the Muslim world to compete with the West.
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Islamic extremism is the saber-rattling of an inferiority complex."


4 posted on 08/23/2006 2:21:14 PM PDT by bwteim (bwteim: Begin With The End In Mind)
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