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***This perspective engenders a fatally false sense of security. Imagine, in 1940, Winston Churchill taking to the airwaves to announce “Nazism is an ideology of peace ***

The present conflict with Islam is far larger in scope than the conflict with Nazism could have ever been. Islam is a 1500 year old religion with over 1 billion adherents.

Should the western leaders take to the air with the message that we are at war with Islam (which we are) we would accelerate the timetable and intensity of this conflict past our current ability and our national will to fight.

This would give the enemy a significant advantage. Bin Laden understands this and this is why he is trying to inflame the "Muslim street". It is in our best strategic interest to keep the majority of the Muslim world cool as long as possible.

The fact the Islam is the enemy will come out soon enough.

Should the western leaders take to the air with the message that we are at war with Islam (which we are) we would accelerate the timetable and intensity of this conflict past our current ability and our national will to fight.

Congratulations for the only sensible comment on this thread so far.

Sun Tzu would be proud of you.

The vast majority of Americans refuse to acknowledge that we are in a war for our very survival and fail to see the seriousness of what we are involved with. The technocratic aspects of it bore the masses and it all seems like some high tech software game. Until it becomes intensely personal and bloody here at home we are doomed to complacency and view it all as much ado about nothing! This is the real danger we must guard against if we are to survive!