[Ragtime Cowgirl]

The Iranian people want freedom as much as anyone. How long can the Mullahs coerce a population into fighting for them? Paying off fellow crooks and thugs to do dirty work isn't a lasting solution. May they share the same grave.

American military is great, because it is good...and that is not something our enemies can learn through stealth or imitation.

[Light Speed]

I believe the 8th Crusade ended in 1191.

What ended the fighting was geostrategic concession.
Lands transfered..or conceeded.
rights to business transaction...ie..you will leave our economic ventures alone..and we will not undermine your transactions.

The last decades demonstrated to the Islamic nations that relationship with Russia and Russia's military complex was pointless.
America won that round..the smarter Islamic nations shifted their relationship ties to America.

Islams problem is in how they see themselves.
Relationship with America brings great benefit..yet the Mosque does not think so.

Globalization maybe understood in the high places..but not on the streets of Islam..where paranoia reigns.

The West..dragging a kicking and screaming child [Islam]..to the doctors office: )