Anyone Else read Imperial Hubris....

[WCGreen]

I find it utterly facsinating is some sense but frustrating as well..

The idea that we are not fighting terrorosts but indusurgents run by a master muslim political who has defined a six point agenda for doing battle with the west....

Get rid of Isreal and Establish a state of Palestien
Stop aiding and abetting the systematic torture pf Muslims living in India, China and Russia.
Expell infidals form the holy places
Overthrow corupt muslim regimes
Establish a country based on Islamic law, the law of god and not of Man
A return of the energy resources to the people of the Muslim world

These are goals set forth by OBL and in no way call for the overthrow of the west or even mentions the western way of life except in derisive terms...

We blew it in Afganistan and have actually given, according to the author, OBL a Christmas present by invading Iraq....

Onething that really caught my attention was that the civil libreites of America stop at the shores of America.....We are engaged in an all out war with the forced aligned and insited OBL so we must conduct our responce as such....

Good read.. Only problem is the guys undying love for Reagan.....

[Mojambo]

1. "A return of the energy resources to the people of the Muslim world"

This is why they will forever be our "enemy"

[WCGreen]

2. One reason......

They want the market to dictate the price but mainly they want the rich mulah to grt out of the way so that the welth if this energy can be spread out across more of the Islamic Worls..

I came away thinking that the reason the gulf states are afraid of OBL is that he has the capacity to actually rise up and provoke a war with Isreal, something the ruling shieks want no part of.. HAving that eternal enemy to distract attention from the day to day poverty most of the islamic world is mired in is far to valuable to let a crazed insurgent plunge in the fray hell bent on destroying Isreal and disrupting the western lifestyle they have become accostomed too.......