Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Opinion

Defeat Al Qaeda by Bringing the Battle Back Down to Earth

How in heaven's name does the U.S. win a war of the imagination? By not fighting one, says Reza Aslan

Posted May 15, 2009

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Bring the fight back down to earth-Reza Aslan

All fanatical movements, the Nazis, the Communists, were " so insane and so mindboggling impossible.." 1000 year rule, world domination that we failed to take them seriously until we had to fight a world war and then a 40 year old "cold war". The world gave these movements credability by appeasing them and responding with weakness. Reza Aslan is described as "...a professor of creative writing.." I guess he is ! Enough said

Al Qaeda & OPEC

The father and the mother of all our wars in the middle east is of course OPEC..... an organisation that has a lot of capitalism but little or no competition it stands as one of the worst enemies of our american free enterprise capitalism with competition....that great goose that always has delivered the Golden Eggs......the great profits of the oil cartel have given the islamic community so much economic and political power that they stand at the gates of collective megalomania....Cordially...

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