[Siamese Princess]

I guess that whole Ayatollah-hostage thing back in '79 wasn`t just an isolated incident. Thanks Brian Murphy for clearing this up for me.

The taking of the American hostages in 1979 was the first blow struck in the revived war between Islam and the West. It's a war that may last for centuries.

[weenie]

It's a war that may last for centuries.

The one thing that argues against it lasting centuries is that nuclear technologies already exist that in enemy hands would be used agaisnt Israel or the US today.

Whatever must be done, must be done now.

[Nowhere Man]

The taking of the American hostages in 1979 was the first blow struck in the revived war between Islam and the West. It's a war that may last for centuries.

Well, I've always realized that November 4th, 1979 was the start of World War III (or World War IV for you Neal Boortz listeners) in which we are in now. I do think the opening shots were fired when the Israeli Wrestling team was murdered by PLO terrorists at the Munich Olympics in 1972 so some say it could have started then. The early phase was masked by the Cold War where at least the Coviets did maintain some sort of a leash on their Arab clients but since the end of the Cold War, there is no limits so we have seen 9-11. Unfortunatly, the liberal left has become the "useful idiots" Lenin and Stalin spoke of in which the Islamo-Fascists would sell them the rope to hang themselves with once they served their purpose of making the Western World weak.