i think you guys have it wrong when you think that this middle
east warfare we are having now has really any idealogical basis.
the idealogs talk and the idealogs write but the guts of the warfare is the average arab wants the western corporate/military/cultural/missionary invaders out of thier lands.

we tell them to get with the times (our time), to be democratic
(our so called goverment), to get over it (we rule), to have our social structure (duh), and follow our religion (the ever annoying christian missonary). but they just see us as invaders trampling on them.

out of the ranks of the average arab hating us for our presence
in thier land and what we are doing to them will come a few who
will fight us and the more pressure we put on them the more who will fight.

on a side, we being a entertaiment loving people, thinking tv
and movies are real life; in 'star wars' the resistance destroyed
the empire.

don