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To: elpadre
“isn’t it “our liberal friends here in the United States and in Europe” that fund, inspire and motivate the terrorists. “

Partially. But there would still be a motivating Koran without the red West, and plenty of funds from the Saudi’s and others.

To say that the present problem is a “creation” of liberals in the West - or is being sustained by them is not correct at all. It’s a 1,500 year old problem that’s threatened Western civilization many times. The Libs in the West just exacerbate the problem.

7 posted on 07/31/2007 1:10:34 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: PetroniusMaximus
To say that the present problem is a “creation” of liberals in the West - or is being sustained by them is not correct at all. It’s a 1,500 year old problem that’s threatened Western civilization many times. The Libs in the West just exacerbate the problem.
The Soviets and the Islamists would no doubt have existed without the "oikophobes" - but to say that without the "oikophobes" they would still have been problems on the scale that they have in fact been is IMHO a fact not at all in evidence.

Without the "oikophobes" the Soviets would have faced nothing but Reaganite presidents, and would never have been able to entertain serious hopes of intimidating the West into surrender. Without the "oikophobes" we would long since have drilled ANWR and built the refineries we need to maintain our energy independence. We might even have unabashedly waged, and won, a war for oil.

Our "oikophobes" are far and away the primary reason why we have any security problems worthy of the name.


8 posted on 07/31/2007 2:41:35 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
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