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>> The problem there is people other than Islamics can and will engage in terrorism, thus prolonging the WoT until there is no human left alive that will violently resist. And that will never happen. <<

ALL the below attacks were perpetrate by MUSLIMS.

April 1983: 17 dead at the U.S. embassy in Beirut.
October 1983: 241 dead at the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut.
December 1983: five dead at the U.S. embassy in Kuwait.
January 1984: the president of the American University of Beirut killed.
April 1984: 18 dead near a U.S. airbase in Spain.
September 1984: 16 dead at the U.S. embassy in Beirut (again).
December 1984: Two dead on a plane hijacked to Tehran.
June 1985: One dead on a plane hijacked to Beirut.
After a let-up, the attacks then restarted: Five and 19 dead in Saudi Arabia in 1995 and 1996, 224 dead at the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in August 1998 and 17 dead on the USS Cole in Yemen in October 2000.
Simultaneously, the murderous assault of militant Islam also took place on U.S. soil:
July 1980: an Iranian dissident killed in the Washington, D.C. area.
August 1983: a leader of the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam killed in Canton, Mich.
August 1984: three Indians killed in a suburb of Tacoma, Wash.
September 1986: a doctor killed in Augusta, Ga.
January 1990: an Egyptian freethinker killed in Tucson, Ariz.
November 1990: a Jewish leader killed in New York.
February 1991: an Egyptian Islamist killed in New York.
January 1993: two CIA staff killed outside agency headquarters in Langley, Va.
February 1993: Six people killed at the World Trade Center.
March 1994: an Orthodox Jewish boy killed on the Brooklyn Bridge.
February 1997: a Danish tourist killed on the Empire State building.
October 1999: 217 passengers killed on an EgyptAir flight near New York City.
In all, 800 persons lost their lives in the course of attacks by militant Islam on Americans before September 2001 - more than killed by any other enemy since the Vietnam War. (Further, this listing does not include the dozens more Americans in Israel killed by militant Islamic terrorists.)
And yet, these murders hardly registered. Only with the events of a year ago did Americans finally realize that "Death to America" truly is the battle cry of this era's most dangerous foe, militant Islam.

Islam declared war on us 25 years ago. We just didn't get the memo until 9/11/01.

>> Terrorism occurs because the United States, through its aggressive foreign policy, angers foreigners to the point of violence. When they learn they cannot successfully engage us on the battlefield, they resort to attacking us off the battlefield. <<

You're entirely too sympathetic to this evil death cult. The US has given more aid to these monsters then any other country on the planet. Muslims hate us because their insane cult tells them to do so and they don't have the intelligence to think for themselves.

Islam is the enemy. Muslims are our enemy. We are at war. It's time to kill them before they kill us.

ALL the below attacks were perpetrate by MUSLIMS.

That's quite a list, but like I said, terrorism does not begin or end with Muslims. It's a method that anyone can use. All asymetrical conflicts (one opponent is militarily stronger than the other) hold the potential for terrorism. Even the president's administration has stated quite clearly that the WoT is not limited to Islamic terrorists.

You're entirely too sympathetic to this evil death cult.

Actually I have despised them far longer than has been fashionable. Their culture is just about as opposite from what I want as possible.

That said, they'd have been content to kill each other and very likely fight with the Israelis, like they have been for years, had we not intervened in the region in pursuit of stable oil markets.

I agree the conflict has been onging long before 9-11. It first began when the US propped up the House of Saud and Israel with military and economic aid in pursuit of stabilizing the region with friendly regemes so as to ensure a stable oil market and therefore a stable industrialized economy.

It may be easier to understand with this analogy: Suppose the US had never united into one country. China, in pursuit of needed food for its huge population, begins funneling money and weapons to China-friendly regimes over our objections in farm-rich areas of the midwest. China then sends armed troops there against the people's will, patrols our waters with their navy, then they begin arming Cuba which then begins fighting with Floridians for land.

Any individual state that tried to fight China on the battelfield loses miserably. Would Americans stand idly by while a foreign power asserts its power here? What do you think happens next?

When you answer that question, you will know why we have a WoT.