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Barbarians, do however, understand fear, and the US should exploit the weirdness of their desert-demon religion to scare the hell out of them.

I believe you're underestimating the enemy. Suicide bombers are barbarians. The people who orchestrate the terrorist activities of the barbarian masses of the Middle East, however, are not barbarians. They are people of intelligence and cunning. And they have at their disposal, tens of thousands of unthinking and unquestioning barbarians. I wouldn't underestimate someone like that.

I know we have no idea right now how this will all end up,but,two of those "orchestrators" are Usama bin Laden and Yassir Arafat.I wouldn't give a plug nickel for their survival chances right now,cunning,intelligent or not.

I believe you're underestimating the enemy. Suicide bombers are barbarians. The people who orchestrate the terrorist activities of the barbarian masses of the Middle East, however, are not barbarians. They are people of intelligence and cunning. And they have at their disposal, tens of thousands of unthinking and unquestioning barbarians. I wouldn't underestimate someone like that.

I agree about not "underestimating" them. That should be the case, regardless of who the enemy is.

BUT, they are clearly not as formidable as other enemies we have fought in the past (USSR, Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan), nor are they as formidable as enemies we are likely to fight in the future (China perhaps)

Let face it, what technological advances have the Islamic countries made over the last 100 years? Everything they have is either stolen from us or the Soviets (who stole most of their stuff from us). I guess they "invented" the number zero a few centuries ago, and that has been their "claim to fame". Big deal. Beavis and Butthead could have invented the number "zero"

About the only time they've been able to succeed is when our stupidity exceeded their own (i.e., letting terrorists walk into our country, and banning CCW's and most LEO's from carrying on planes)

They are people of intelligence and cunning. And they have at their disposal, tens of thousands of unthinking and unquestioning barbarians.

Sounds exactly like our government.

I wouldn't underestimate someone like that.

I don't.