Posted on 06/01/2002 11:01:44 AM PDT by knighthawk
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Do NOT apologize. You are 100% correct.
Islam is the scourge of the earth.
Edom is intent on having his revenge come hell or high water. And I for one wouldn't mind helping his seed travel to "Allah."
Thank you for posting this.
William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site
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I doubt this. Islam is a history of dictatorship.
The lesson was clear: A European power could come to the region and do what it pleased, and only another European power could get them out. Thus began the game, so to speak, of playing European powers off against one another.
For two centuries or more, the scenario remained the same -- though the players were sometimes different. In the final phase, the players were the two superpowers, the Soviet Union and the United States; and Middle Eastern leaders used the skills they had perfected over two centuries in playing them off against each other.
Then, suddenly, it came to an end. The phase in history that had been initiated by Bonaparte and Nelson was terminated by Bush and Gorbachev. Suddenly, there was no rivalry; there were no rival powers. First one and then the other seemed disinclined to play the Imperial role -- the Russians because they couldn't and the Americans because they wouldn't. Some Muslim leaders are trying to keep playing the old game, and so are seeking another power to play off against the West, as it is embodied by the United States. The prime candidate is the European Union, or at least some parts of the European Union where there is a negative sentiment regarding America. Unfortunately, for those who pursue this policy, even if the Europeans have the will to play this role, they lack the ability.
Maybe the prime candidate is not the European Union, but China.
1.) The "Source of all our troubles was the West" bunch got their foothold as a result of Jimmy Carter engineering the fall of the Shah of Iran.
2.) The only hope for peace between the Moslem world and the West is found in the adoption by the Moslems of the Turkish model of democratic rule.
"Islamic civilization" duly added to my comprehensive oxymoron list.
America's Fifth Column ... watch PBS documentary JIHAD! In America
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I think you're right. Playing the US against China makes a lot more sense.
Answer: G_d has the same opinion of moslems that I do.
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