[Polycarp IV]

I don't think John Paul II wants to come to terms with what is at work here: Muslim extremists, driven to destroy a culture that they abhor.

I don't think you and America want to come to terms with what the bottom line is here: America no longer possesses a moral high ground from which to campaign this global war on terror. Did it ever occur to you that JPII sees and knows far more than you or I will ever hope?

He is not a drooling old doddard, Sink. He is a brilliant man, a mystic, the Pope of the Third Secret.

He knows what is coming and he is sincerely trying to mitigate the sufferings standing at our very door step.

You are wrong to ascribe to him any other motive whatsoever.

[sinkspur]

Did it ever occur to you that JPII sees and knows far more than you or I will ever hope?

No.

He knows what is coming and he is sincerely trying to mitigate the sufferings standing at our very door step.

Then tell him to preach to the Muslims, a religion he obviously feels some affinity for, since he never calls them to account. It is from this religion that the terrorists draw their justification, and, bastardized though it is, the Pope would do much more for mankind by condemning this abomination.

You are wrong to ascribe to him any other motive whatsoever.

Perhaps. But, so far, he has given no encouragement to the people of Iraq as they struggle to throw off the yoke of Saddam Hussein.

[DeepDish]

"America no longer possesses a moral high ground from which to campaign this global war on terror."

The ground we stand on may not be "moral" to you. You may believe that it is not "high" enough. Well the ground I stand on is acres in size, it has a subsoil layer 5 or 6 sories tall consisting of building rubble, overlain with a topsoil made from the corpses of 3000 innocent human beings. The hill is called ground zero and from there I can see all the way to Afghanistan and Iraq.