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To: bsariwat

"If we would withdraw the bases from around the world and focus on domestic issues instead of meddling with everyone's government, policing the world, paying off countries, people will stop targeting us just like they aren't targeting governments of other countries."

This is impossibly naive. First, the world is completely interconnected economically and otherwise. It is impossible for the USA to so completely withdraw from the world. Second, muslim extremists have declared war on us and devoted themselves to our total destruction. It is a grave mistake to think that any particular grievance they articulate can be appeased, because all those particular grievances are pretexts that derive from the only grievance that matters, that you do not agree with them on religion. The choice Al Qaeda has put to the US, to the Pope, to Europe, to Western Civilization is this: conversion or the sword. They have been crystal clear that their ambition is to expand Islam by violent jihad until the entire world submits to Allah. Withdrawal is not an option on this menu.

Regards,


24 posted on 10/12/2006 8:31:36 AM PDT by Buckhead
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