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To: Man of the Right
We will defeat the terrorists by using Americans of Muslim and Arab descent to defeat the terrorists.

If you believe that then there is this bridge for sale...

The first allegiance of muslims is to their twisted ideology. Either you are a "believer" or you are an infidel. The only difference between the Bil laden types and the rest of the "peace loving" types is that Bin laden want the end to come soon. The others can watch and wait...

28 posted on 10/03/2002 9:10:41 AM PDT by eleni121
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To: eleni121
There are not a lot of native-born U.S. citizens of English-descent and the Southern Baptist religion with personal contacts in the communities that breed terrorism and their state sponsors who read Arabic fluently, speak unaccented Arabic fluently in the local dialect, and who understand the culture and religion of the countries we will be monitoring, and operating in.

It's going to take a lot of Arabs and Muslims to provide human and signals intelligence and special forces.

Generally, the side with the better intelligence wins the war. Foremost, September 11 was an intelligence failure. Similarly, the failure to account for bin Laden and Sheik Omar was an intelligence failure.

Muslims are as diverse a community as Christians, Jews and Atheists.

If we classify all of them as enemies whether they are or aren't, we're not going to have the intelligence and special forces we need to drive the terrorists to ground.

We can learn from our military past. On at least five occasions in the past, we have won small wars by recruiting from enemy forces and populace and turning them against the enemy: The Apache Campaign, 1885-86; the Philippine Insurrection, 1899-1902; the Moro Campaign, 1906-1913; the Haitian Intervention, 1914-15; and the Nicaraguan Intervention, 1916-34.











55 posted on 10/03/2002 9:52:16 AM PDT by Man of the Right
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To: eleni121
There are not a lot of native-born U.S. citizens of English-descent and the Southern Baptist religion with personal contacts in the communities that breed terrorism and their state sponsors who read Arabic fluently, speak unaccented Arabic fluently in the local dialect, and who understand the culture and religion of the countries we will be monitoring, and operating in.

It's going to take a lot of Arabs and Muslims to provide human and signals intelligence and special forces.

Generally, the side with the better intelligence wins the war. Foremost, September 11 was an intelligence failure. Similarly, the failure to account for bin Laden and Sheik Omar was an intelligence failure.

Muslims are as diverse a community as Christians, Jews and Atheists.

If we classify all of them as enemies whether they are or aren't, we're not going to have the intelligence and special forces we need to drive the terrorists to ground.

We can learn from our military past. On at least five occasions in the past, we have won small wars by recruiting from enemy forces and populace and turning them against the enemy: The Apache Campaign, 1885-86; the Philippine Insurrection, 1899-1902; the Moro Campaign, 1906-1913; the Haitian Intervention, 1914-15; and the Nicaraguan Intervention, 1916-34.











56 posted on 10/03/2002 9:53:06 AM PDT by Man of the Right
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