>>Yes, I understand this. The Islamic radicals want to eliminate our way of life because it is offensive to them.
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>>We are talking about 10,000 persons, more or less. No, we cannot negotiate with these 10,000. However, there are hundreds of millions of Muslims that we can reason with. These people are the key to eliminating the worst of the radicals. If we ally with them and show respect to them, they will help us. If we make war on them (and the NewsMax plan certainly does this) many of them will become radicals. Then we will have hundreds of thousands of Islamic terrorists to deal with.
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>The error in your logic is to assume that because the terrorists wear the turbin of Islam, that every believer in Islam in the world is in ideological agreement with terrorists. I do not believe they are.


Jerry, I need to take a break from this discussion but, in parting, let me try to clarify this last exchange.

I am saying that out of the one billion Muslims in the world, only approximately 10,000 are terrorists. Seems like we agree.

My main point is that in fighting terrorists we have to do so in alliance with these Muslim and Arab countries. If we act without their co-operation or in opposition to them, then we are in trouble. That is what would tend to create a war between the secular countries and the Islamic countries.

Later

Peter