[Cannoneer No. 4]

Spamming works both ways, hero.

[atlaw]

Spam? I gave you both the links and quotations from the links. That's not spam. That's information.

And from your comment, I take it you didn't read any of it. Willful ignorance works only one way, hero.

[91B]

I've been reading all the comments and I think you are fighting the good fight. I was in Qatar at As Saliyah for 7 months from Sept 2003-April 2004 (between trips to Iraq) and one of the things I took away from my experience is that if we are going to accomplish our goal of transforming the middle east (thereby greatly reducing the threat of terrorism) we have to encourage people in the region to accept at least some of our values. From my time in Qatar I got the impression that tolerance and Islam were not totally incompatible and that moderate leaders like the Emir could lead their people away from extremism if we provided some encouragement. Qataris were more interested in trade than jihad and wanted an alliance with us to protect them from the Saudis, Iranians and other radicals in the region. In any conflict with Iran the UAE will be of critical importance. I think the President is playing a deeper strategic game than many here are giving him credit for.

[drhogan]

an effective counter-argument!