[Dark Skies]

Our government, presumably because it represents benign followers of the enemy, is not leading in this war. This war crosses the lines of nations. This war is obviously not a war that our President wants to accept. This war is beyond the state...this war is to be fought in the conscience, in the soul and in the heart.

If our nation doesn't soon announce its recognition of this enemy...we must arise without its support.

IMHO

[Donald Meaker]

President Bush is not a religious leader. If a religious leader wishes to enlist temporal powers to fight back against religious enemies, he may gain support from unlikely places.

El Cid cleared Spain from Muslim control in cooperation with some Muslim allies. The Serbs cleared Kosovo from Muslim control in cooperation with some Muslim allies. I do not know if such Muslim allies would be, or would not be necessary or possible in the future. Just in the middle ages Christians were able to develop Muslim allies who were more interested in their independence from the dominant Arab-Muslim power than in their position as a tool of that hierarchy.

That is the reason why I regret that Dubai ports deal didn't go through. I saw it as an opportunity to exploit faults in the Muslim world by supporting an ally.

[RoadTest]

It's nothing new. To be persecuted is the mainstream of real Christianity. Jesus led the way by incurring the murderous wrath of the religious establishment.

Every century since then, including this young century, has seen the wholesale slaughter of His followers, usually by religionists who think they are doing God a favor.