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"''zealots and despots'' bent on destroying the global system of nation-states -- are turning out newly trained terrorists faster than the United States can capture or kill them."

I like Rumsfeld, but I wish he'd apply some basic reasoning here. If Islam is churning out terrorists and assassins faster then we can kill or capture them, it's high time we all realized that this invisible army of terrorists are NOT a few 'zealots and despots', but rather it consists of most of Islam. You kill one and they find two to replace them. You capture six and they find 10 to replace them. Islam itself is the enemy of Western man, and Christians in general, and Jews, and Hindus. This phenomenon of the "multiplying terrorists" indicates they not just a few 'bad apples' within.

Yes, it's "the myth of hijacked Islam." The only majority-Muslim country that's succeeded in Western terms is Turkey - why? Because Islamic fanatic expressions (including head gear for both men & women) were diligently *suppressed.* The state appoints religious leaders to the mosques, and monitors them carefully. Even the current Turkish PM was in prison for awhile because of his Islamist leanings.

Fundamentalist Islam as it literally interprets the Koran *is* terorrism. It sounds like Defense Sec'y Rumsfeld is waking up to smell the hummus. It *is* a "war on Islam;" it *is* "a crusade," and the sooner we "get it" the better.