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Originally Posted by peragro
At a symposium last spring on "Islam and the West," which was sponsored by The World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, Walter Russell Mead of the Council on Foreign Relations noted, "The human species is facing a huge historical, cultural problem... For reasons that have very little to do with the U.S., we need to face the fact that we'll be living with this for a very long time." Mead said it isn't just an Arab problem, but an Islamic world problem, which transcends borders and regions. "If you don't understand this, you're deluding yourself," he said.
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This is the best part of the whole article.
The partisan politics of the whole thing are obvious, and are to be expected. One party will ALWAYS blame the other for the "bad times", and will fail to give credit for the "good times".
But this paragraph is the important one. So many people fail to realize, or at least refuse to admit for moronic politically-correct reasons, that the true root of the problem is radical Islamic culture. The situation has been brewing for a LONG time, and the clerics and leaders of this movement prey upon the weak, the poor, the uneducated....
It is a cancer, and the cancer is spreading. You don't "negotiate" with cancer. You take radical measures to eliminate it.
Until our government, and the rest of the civilized world, starts dealing with it as such, we are going to continue to spin our collective wheels.
Mike