Defeat Al Qaeda by Bringing the Battle Back Down to Earth

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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

T.D. Magz of NJ 7:16PM May 26, 2009

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...

Steve S. Roisman of CA 8:10PM May 16, 2009