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Sinti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-12-06 02:38 AM
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How to Win World War IV
An old article, but important for the "know thine enemy" file IMO. This guy foresees possibly five, six, or seven more regime changes. :scared:

Certainly not all Muslims are terrorists. Like any other collection of
human beings, they can as individuals be good or evil, kind or cruel,
intelligent or stupid, sweet or sour. But it would be dishonest to
ignore the plain truth that Islam has become an especially fertile
breeding-ground of terrorism in our time. This can only mean that there
is something in the religion itself that legitimizes the likes of Osama
bin Laden, and indeed there is: the obligation imposed by the Koran to
wage holy war, or jihad, against the "infidels."


*snip*

Consider: the campaign against al Qaeda required us to topple the
Taliban regime, and we may willy-nilly find ourselves forced by the same
political and military logic to topple five or six or seven more
tyrannies in the Islamic world (including that other sponsor of
terrorism, Yasir Arafat’s Palestinian Authority). I can even go along
with David Pryce-Jones in imagining the turmoil of this war leading to
some new species of an imperial mission for America, whose purpose would
be to oversee the emergence of successor governments in the region more
amenable to reform and modernization than the despotisms now in place.
Like Pryce-Jones, I can also envisage the establishment of some kind of
American protectorate over the oil fields of Saudi Arabia, as we more
and more come to wonder why 7,000 princes should go on being permitted
to exert so much leverage over us and everyone else.
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longship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-12-06 03:53 AM
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1. After nuclear war, the next war will be fought with sticks and stones.
nt
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