Posted on 10/07/2001 11:49:14 AM PDT by Sabertooth
It is not new, and it does not make their cause right.
The willingness of stupid, deluded, brainwashed young men to die for their leader's cause is as old as mankind.
Unfortunatly , it will not go away any time soon.
Three year member too.
Well, we didn't see their death throes until we acted. And it took years.
This is going to be a Crusade, if it is going to work at all. Long and bloody. And like the first Crusades, this is in response to jihad.
There was no Crusade before jihad.
And as long as there is Islam, there will be jihad.
I'm not sure folks get that yet.
Oh, I don't think so. We have only seen two of the four horsemen beginning to canter (war, death), and three is just leaving the gate (pestilence). What is the fourth? Famine? That's when we'll know it is the end of the beginning.
Hang in there, film at 11. Possibly of a red moon rising.
If you subscribe to the religious interpretation of history then you are "mired in history" and are aligning yourself with the crazy thinking people that are part of the problem.
"Or is it the first major battle in a titanic ``clash of civilizations''?"
I would hardly call what the Taliban practices "civilization."
Nature abhors a vacuum.
Especially one in a uterus.
Agreed... But that's the point.
They do.
And so does bin Laden and Hussein.
"They do. And so does bin Laden and Hussein."
High time to show them - again - the terrible cost of their barbarity.
In the meantime, I was taking exception with the writer's use of the words "clash of civilizations."
When the same word "civilization" is used to describe both the U.S. (and by extension, "the west") and the uncivilized barbarians that perpetrated these acts of aggression, then there exists on the writer's part either a severe misunderstanding of that which constitues a "civilization," or it is a cynical attempt on his part to blur the distinctions that exist between the two and thus make us the moral equivalents of our enemies.
In either case, his repeated and inappropriate choice of language to describe what may more readily be called a "clash of cultures" or a "clash of civilization versus barbarism" tells me this writer is either terribly ignorant, or he has an axe to grind. Thus, his use of the language undermines what may otherwise be a perfectly reasonable premise.
Pestilence, how much more pestilence do you need? People starving all over the planet, natural disasters, and unnatural disasters, No, IMHO, the pestilence horsey has already galloped through and will continue until the end.
Now famine, the first thing people think of is literal food, however, read Amos 8:11, where God tells us the famine in the end times is not for bread and water, but hearing the words of the Lord. Look at the condition of our churches today, are they feeding the sheep? NO, they're starving the flocks.
In His Service.....
ditto
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