[Mishmash] Obama? Oh, Please!

[Susan Flewelling]

At 12:25 PM 1/25/09, you wrote:

>>As for diplomatic outreach to the Middle East - the taliban, hamas, etc., want a muslim world - they don't now, nor did they ever, want peace.  We've got Liberal (akin to Democrats) politicians here in Canada saying the same thing
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>What thing?  That the Islamist terrorists want a Muslim world?  Of course they do; they've made that point quite clear.  Sounds like your Liberals have their heads on straight.

I didn't phrase this very well apparently - the Liberals also want to rush with their hands extended for peace and seem to think it will be welcomed.

>You may be confusing two issues involving Muslims.  There are the Taliban-type religious fanatics who long for the return of the caliphate and the re-conquest of all the regions that Islam once ruled, from Spain to the Middle East. There are, separately, those whose issues are less religious than political; they want to regain the lands their families left when the state of Israel was created, and the abolition of Israel as what they consider a usurper. Unfortunately, they have adopted the same terrorist tactics: suicide bombings and the murder of civilians, that gain them no sympathy from the outside world.

They're all cut from the same cloth with the same goal  of world domination - do you really think it would stop with the eradication of Israel?

We live in the worst of times.
susan