[Lanman]

This has been posted twice, and been pulled twice for some of the comments.

[Magician]

Hopefully, people here on FR will keep the comments civil. The subject of the religious aspect of the War on Terrorism is one that must be discussed. We are told almost universally that only a small fraction of Muslims are of the fundementalist stripe. That it is a peaceful religion.

However, although few Muslims will choose to commit suicide in a Jihad, there is widespread support for the terrorists in the streets of the Muslim world, particularly in the Arab Muslim world. There was indeed dancing in the streets in almost every Arab country on September 11. Even in the New York and Chicago Arab communities.

I think that much of what this author says will prove to be true. We will catch bin Laden and some other terrorists. But we will entrap ourselves into an alliance with so-called "moderate" Arab countries which will do little to help us and will in fact continue to finance and support the terrorists. And thus the war will not go away or be won.