I'm thinking that for Lawrence, 9/11 and Militant Islam are very small pieces in a jigsaw puzzle. I'm thinking that for him (correct me if I'm wrong, Lawrence....not that that needed to be said) a global "Pan-Arab" vs "Western" war merely includes some battle players (never mind that there are Persians, secularists, religious extremists, etc.). Julie Krueger ========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: The Strident Voice of Defeat Date: 1/11/2007 4:54:13 P.M. Central Standard Time From: _Ursula@xxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx) To: _lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) Sent on: Just how many times do you have to be told that Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11 or with Militant Islam? This makes no moral difference to you? Ursula Lawrence Helm wrote: > ...and to use a quote from Thomas Barnett, kindly provided to us by > Brian, “We’re mad as hell after 9/11, we’re not going to take it > anymore, and we’re going to go in and lay a big bang on this part of > the world, try to shake things up by taking down the biggest, baddest > actor in the region, and establishing the possibility of a new order.” > This by the way is very much in keeping with the Islamic sense of > honor (see /Honor, a History, /by James Bowman). > > Lawrence > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html