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Thread #100023   Message #2032149
Posted By: Amos
21-Apr-07 - 04:00 PM
Thread Name: BS: Reviewing the Road to Iraq
Subject: RE: BS: Reviewing the Road to Iraq
I dunno what vibes you're thinking of, Dick, but asserting that brute force is the only thing Muslims understand is like claiming that women enjoy rape.

There is a war of ideas afoot here, but it is NOT the war between shallow-minded Christians and shallow-minded Muslims. It is, rather, the war between the idea of coercion and the idea of dialogue and understanding. It is the war between the idea of wiping out your competitiors, rather than simply out-creating them in a postive direction. It is a war between a sane future or one haunted by insane slaughter. You get to pick which side you're on.

Rationalizations and false generalizations won't work.

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