Posted on 06/06/2003 4:19:26 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
That should not be much of a cocern. Sheer population cannot overwhelm a more economically and technologically superior society. If that was the case, China and India would have surpassed the United States long ago.
Look at the Islamic countries today. Over a billion people combined. Yet without Western assistance, these people would be leading a medieval existence. They would have trouble building a toothbrush factory on their own. In fact, they wouldn't even be able to pump the oil out of the ground below them if it wasn't for Western technology and know-how.
Left to their own devices, the entire Muslim world would resemble pre-war Afghanistan. Theirs is a brutal and repressive culture, virtually incapable of innovation and technologically capability. The men are raised to fight amongst each other and to kill at the slightest provocation. The women are raised to be submissive and docile, hidden away and incapable of contributing anything to their society other than produce babies who are doomed to lousy life, no matter what they sex is.
As the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq indicate, these are a primitive people who cannot hope to ever win a war against a technologically superior Western power such as the United States and Great Britain. Like a bumblebee can sting a bear, they can hurt us from time to time (such as on 9/11), but when the bear swats back, the bumblebee doesn't have a chance.
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