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Yes, there are Christian Arabs. I agree that they will be and are invaluable in this war, evn though I hate to say it but its was Christian Arabs who initiated many of the most violent left wing groups today including the Baath party and other Marxist oriented organizations. However, those arabs and non arabs who are muslims cannot be counted on to aid the US. Their first allegiance is to mohamed and the sharia. It is not true that they are as diverse as Christians. Islam is not just a religion; it is a lifestyle = a way of living that seeks to dominate those who are non Muslims.

Now, if you are talking about divide and conquer for example, helping the Kurdish Muslims to defeat their Muslim aggressors, I have no doubt that that can only help. But the caution here is that in the final analysis, Muslims will always put their ideology first.

Christians are perhaps 30% of the population in Lebanon, 20% in Sudan, high single digits on the West Bank and Jordan, 1-2% in Egypt and Syria, and a tiny minority in Iraq. Overall, perhaps 1-2% of the Arab World is Christian -- a smaller percentage than the Jewish population in the U.S.(which is 2%+)

To be frank, we're really talking Islam, a religion whose holy places are in the Arab world, and whose holy book and mother language is Arabic.

Respectfully, I think you're stereotyping Muslims in the same way many of them are stereotyping us. Again, practically every American has been angry at Muslims since 9-11. I'm no exception.

However, it isn't smart to promote a religious conflict with Muslims. Many have no quarrel with us. Some agree with us. We're going to need them -- for intelligence, special operatives and bases, to say nothing of oil.

We're talking about a billion people. Sunnis, Shiites. People who attend mosque and don't attend mosque. The devout and non-believers. Radicals and conservatives. Businessmen and street urchins. Men and women. The educated and illiterate. People on six continents.

I think the more you observe them around the world, the more you're going to notice differences.

We've got to be able to distinguish among our enemies, our friends, and the indifferent. In wartime it's a matter of life and death.

We can't defend against every possible nuclear, chemical or biological attack. We have to plant spies in terrorist states and organizations. Unfortunately, native-born Christian Americans of British descent can't perform this service.