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If he's right, it's gonna get messy...
A commentary from The Observer: "We all know who was to blame for Thursday's murders... and it wasn't Bush and Blair."
Face up to the truth
Nick Cohen
Sunday July 10, 2005
A snippet:
"Again, I understand the appeal. Whether you are brown or white, Muslim, Christian, Jew or atheist, it is uncomfortable to face the fact that there is a messianic cult of death which, like European fascism and communism before it, will send you to your grave whatever you do. But I'm afraid that's what the record shows."
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1525172,00.html
Face up to the truth
Nick Cohen
Sunday July 10, 2005
A snippet:
"Again, I understand the appeal. Whether you are brown or white, Muslim, Christian, Jew or atheist, it is uncomfortable to face the fact that there is a messianic cult of death which, like European fascism and communism before it, will send you to your grave whatever you do. But I'm afraid that's what the record shows."
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1525172,00.html
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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... .