understand more than most about their history, culture, and religion and I'm telling you right now this will at some point (maybe in the far future, maybe not) become a question of them or us. At least it will be for those of us who feel conversion to a false faith or existence under their heel are not options to be considered.
Thank you. That is EXACTLY what it is going to come down to. Only we are not asking them to convert or die. They are telling us it will be that way.
Let's be exact here...once an adolescent male Arab, Pakastani, Palestinian, etc has been through the equivalant of a Madras, we have lost him to any type of reform. He then regards us and anyone else as an enemy worthy of death at his own hand. These are the enemies that I agree need to be dealt with harshly and indiscriminately.
Our only hope is to get to the women and children in these cultures, and the unindoctrinated pro-western adult males, and somehow shield and protect them from their terrorist and terrorist-sympathizing adult males until they can face down these animals themselves.
That is what Bush is trying to accomplish. Whether he and the rest of our Western allies can accomplish this over a generation remains to be seen.