[Neophyte]

endless and futile utopian war to "reform" Islam

To reform Islam is as possible as it was to reform Nazism. Although Michael Jackson prooves that one can even become a former Negro, the result is too ugly to serve as a role model.

[Light Speed]

I guess the concept of Reform is being accepted by the Islamics..recently the smiling talking heads from Saudi Arabia we see on the T.V. of late...looks like they are ready to impliment some kind of concessionary thingy..maybe tone down all those big ralies of Hezbullah in Beruit...100,000...tone it down to 60,000 next time..publish the numbers for the media to stroke themselves.
More pictures of Western culture in Iran...happy handshakes with Karzi in Kabul..yup..the Saudi's will make changes..were sure to see them endlessly now...maybe even displace some evening Brave baseball telecasts.
Social reform....[Surface...social reform]...
Meanwhile...
North Korean technitions will still be moving sections of scud C and D's into postion in Syria's 23 deep underground missile complexes....he might look over his shoulder to see if the warning light is flashing near the area where the vx nerve agents are being processed and placed into warheads.
Yup...its something right out of a James Bond movie..and its going on as we speak..as the talking Saudi heads speak..and Kofi Annan..and The Euro weennies.

Bin Laden..Saddam,..just players in the game...like chess..you lose players.
Saudi Prince money in Lebanon...
Al Qeda in South Lebanon.
Al Qeda strolling the streets of Damascus Syria.
Hezbullah,Islamic Jihad...PLO..and lots of other letter abreviations..all strolling around Damascus..or south Lebanon...its become quite the social event.

U.S. plopped sat photos of Syria resupplying Saddam with ex Soviet bloc nation weapons ,parts and spares on Damascuses desk..no trembling happening here...
Syrias rolling in the hardware as we speak..and letting Saddam drive 150,000 barrels of oil into Syria daily too.[Violating U.N. sanctions..but who really cares?]
Obviously Syria is not scared of the U.S. in the least..or they would'nt be doing this shit right out in the open.
Iranian frequent flyer miles to Syria...Chinese fibre optical technology finding its way into Iraq via Syria..
North Korean technitions sight seeing and assembling missiles in Syria...
Saudi Princes with their money repairing Lebanese electrical stations clobbered by Israel to the tune of millions..and then a tour around Lebanon to work on other deals
All this going on..while we watch Afganistan or Pakistan/India.
One has to wonder if Saudi princes...Iranian Clerics and others are not falling out of their chairs with laughter with all of this .
For me at least....I know why the Saudi talking heads are smiling!