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[ddeubel]

Long before Al-Qaeda (whatever that means really, the definition is in the hands of those who want to make a boggie man out of it....) , there was Arab fanaticism and Arab iolence directed at the west.

It is not a GROWING threat. Or atleast won't be unless the U.S. does some reasonable things and stops its own foreign terrorism and starts supporting real democracy in the world.

There doesn't need to be any demand. Arab terrorists (used by the west also , for their own purposes...) will always be around as long as there is military intrusion into their affairs and funding of tyrants in the Arab world. It will go away if the U.S. starts being proactive and less militant/violent in its geopolitical world view. You don't see them bombing Switzerland????

Also, terrorism isn't any more prolific now. Actually less so. So you are paranoid and have a big hook right in your lower lip.

The only other option is that maybe there are Arabs that like to blow themselves up/commit suicide and kill others just for the fun of it. I know better, so this isn't an option, it isn't a game. So you are paranoid.

DD

[Kuros]

[Octavius Hite]

There is no such thing as civilized warfare, thus your argument is moot.

[Kuros]

[Octavius Hite]

No, my point is that warfare is never civilized thus flying a plane into a building is as evil as firing cruise missiles into crowded city centres as is giving uneducated aboriginees AK-47's as is laying landmines that stay active for a generation.

War doesn't solve anything. The more we kill, the more people we create that will want to kill us in return. There is a cycle at play, one accelerated by rich, evil people, that will not stop because unless we exterminate all but one group of homogenous people we will never end these conflicts. You can bomb and bomb and bomb every muslim country in the world and it will not defeat terrorism until we acknowledge our mistakes and try to do better.

[Kuros]

[ddeubel]

Kuros,

I was going to reply but after reading your musings, I have to refrain. You , like so many , have bought into the arguement of Al-Qaeda the terrible, insidious, killing thousands and thousands, week in and week out. They are everywhere and can't be named and can't be bargained with and don't have goals, aims. They just are..............

Sounds like something from a Hitchcock film or Kafka. .........

Then the doozy....

[Nowhere Man]

To clarify,

Kuros,

You're arguing that our war is to force Al Quaeda/radical Muslims to submit to "the West".

Is that what you're saying?

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[bigverne]

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[bigverne]

[Octavius Hite]

No, I dont think that Al-Qaeda will stop just because the US changes its foriegn policy. But if the US were to change its foriegn policy and remove troops from the middle east and stop blindly supporting Israel then they would have regained the moral high ground in the fight. The US is losing because every western democracy opposes them becaus etheir policies are hypocritical. We want democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan but in Palestine, to bad. We are against drugs, excet when the CIA is selling them or the Afghani's are. Car bombing a market is a crime but flattening Falluja is completly ok. Don't you guys see these issues? are you stunned?

If the US met the demands of Al-Qaeda then if they didn't stop then the US could rally the world and really take the fight to them, but that won't happen so it will just be America fighting this foolish thing (and losing).

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[ddeubel]