Religion is just an excuse to mobilize fighters for the cause.

No,No,No.

A single degenerated version of a religion is the aim, it's both imperialist and fascist (in the wider sense), as I stated above the excuses are Isreal / Afganistan / Iraq etc.


My feeling is that simply upping the ante of retaliation...by invading more countries and smashing up more real estate (the method tried so far)...will simply NOT yield a useful result. It will encourage more and more desperate counter-strikes on the western populace by terrorist cells.

Well this is partly my point also. Fighting, in the literal sense, is very difficult when you cannot see your opponent, but AQ has an ideology and it is this that must be fought. There are "serious" writers in UK papers that support the attacks on US/UK soldiers in Iraq. Why? The invasion is over, people are trying to build a democracy , just tell me in who's interest is it that these murderers win.

OK, the west isn't perfect, big deal. Blair, through the G8, was trying to push Africa center stage, one day later what the f* happens.
Have a luck at a map since 7/7, 21/7 and sharm el shiekh, Africa is about as big as Malta.

And to all the pundits that say we brought it on ourselves, Blairs participation in Iraq did increase the chances of the UK being attacked. From 100% to 200%, go figure.

Shakey