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so then you don't believe in "moderate islam"?

Good for you!

you seem to believe in the failed concepts of limited war.
against religious terrorist hordes numbering in the 10's of millions.

priceless.

ps: you are not the only one with kids "over there."

you seem to believe in the failed concepts of limited war against religious terrorist hordes numbering in the 10's of millions.

You have any proof that it has failed? Besides, it's not a 'limited war', it's a different war. Would you be so barbarous as to kill 100 million just to eliminate the 10 million bad ones?

Early this am, NPR's On Point program had on the author of a book...didn't catch name of book or author, but he was an academic with the idea that what was going on was Occidentalism vs. an older eastern culture. (Occidentalism is in the title somewhere). God forbid we should call this a holy war, but that's what's being sold in hundreds of thousands of mosques around the world.

The author mentioned Japan vs. the US as an example of how threatened an older culture might be by the west, and the US in particular. The serin gas attacks in the Tokyo subway were carried out by fundamentalist Japanese, who felt their culture was being destroyed by evil, modern ways. The discussion got interesting just as I had to turn off the radio, but the author said there were moderate Muslims who wanted to live in peace. Presumably, he was going to come up with specifics after the break, but I missed that.

A bit earlier, a crackpot from San Francisco called to blame everything on greedy corporations moving into purer, older cultures and ruining their peaceful existence. Kenya. Where kids were suddenly charged money to go to school. Multinational businesses needed cheap labor, and the kids went to work instead of school. They got back to the main subject as soon as they got rid of that guy. The author said, delicately, that Islam in many ways was 'backward', thus threatened by the west. They also discussed some Muslim who emigrated to the US and was appalled by licentiousness, etc. and women's 'free' ways. Times Square was evidently on his list of hot spots.

Disillusioned, (he'd expected to be wined and dined as a big thinker, and was miffed when this didn't happen), he tossed off some anti-American poetry and a great many more tracts along those lines, and left. If the On Point correspondent and the author figured out how to solve the terrorist problem, I missed it...so we'll have to roll up our sleeves and do it, ourselves.