If it comes to us or them, we'd be wise to remember that there are a LOT more of them than us.
Why we need to push their moderates to take things in hand. Because BushCo's way of dealing with it is the big stick. We're not the only ones with a big stick, but we have big sticks.
And other players with big sticks do not like the conservative fringe, either. If the fringe becomes enough of a nuisance, I fear that the same people who are justifying torture may justify genocide.
One of these primarily Islamic countries has already done it--maybe Pakistan, maybe Syria, I can't remember, but I saw a column on it years ago. They literally did a "scorched earth" on the village where the hotbed existed. After that time, their radicals took their hysteria outside of the country... .
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Why we need to push their moderates to take things in hand. Because BushCo's way of dealing with it is the big stick. We're not the only ones with a big stick, but we have big sticks.
And other players with big sticks do not like the conservative fringe, either. If the fringe becomes enough of a nuisance, I fear that the same people who are justifying torture may justify genocide.
One of these primarily Islamic countries has already done it--maybe Pakistan, maybe Syria, I can't remember, but I saw a column on it years ago. They literally did a "scorched earth" on the village where the hotbed existed. After that time, their radicals took their hysteria outside of the country... .