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<blockquote class="Quote"><div><strong class="bc-author">Frank</strong> said:</div><div><blockquote class="Quote"><div><strong class="bc-author">bassie</strong> said:</div><div>The problem with revenge is that it never stops.</div></blockquote>
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	This is not the end of a war.<br />
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	Osama already was and will forever be an icon for Islamist terrorists. An evil form of Che Guevara with millions of potential followers worldwide. Look at the worldwide (well, all over the first world) leftwing intellectual movements of the 60s. Very few like the German RAF or the Weathermen took to a violent level but even most of those guys were still technically squares from middle class backgrounds and if they were honest to themselves, most probably still had visions of growing old, building homes, having families and leading lifes as more or less orderly citizens.<br />
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	Now look at all those muslim countries out there. There is a virtually endless supply of poor, uneducated and disillusioned kids out there. Religion is a powerful tool. These kids have absolutely no perspective for life, they grew up watching their siblings die because their family could not afford the $5 they would have had to spend on lifesaving medication. The official life expectancy in these places is usually somewhere in the mid 40s to mid 50s while you can be sure that the real numbers are much much lower since in most places, the poor don't give birth in hospitals, most never get registered and never show up in any statistics. Look at all the crazy shit that educated people are capable of believing when it comes to religion. With "educated" I mean people who went through a rudimentary first world school system. Now imagine how easy to manipulate some kid must be who never went to any school. As absurd as it may seem to us, they easily will adapt the unshakable belief that martyrdom leads them straight to paradise, including these dozens of virgins who magically are virgins again in the morning after being deflowered the night before. They see the way we live and they don't hate us because we're free or some shit like that, they hate us because we live in excess while they don't have nothing. Their Iman tells them that we're the devil and there's no reason they shouldn't believe that. I mean really believe that, with every fiber of their being. Many generations of kids like these, millions of them, they all now have their icon. Somebody whose killing they can avenge.<br />
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	That's why this is not the end of a war. Maybe a turning point. And if one thing is for sure, this shit is only ever going to turn for the worse.</div></blockquote>
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	I'm not sure I agree with your analysis, Frank.  The 9/11 hijackers were not uneducated men.  One of the problems in the Muslim world - especially Saudi Arabia - is that there are plenty of educated young men who can't find jobs.  Sure, a lot of them have useless religion degrees, but even that requires a high degree of literacy.<br />
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	The recent democratic uprisings seem like a move in a non-Al Qaeda direction, and it may well be that Al Qaeda has lost its steam.  It happens.  I haven't heard anything about Baader-Meinhof or the Red Brigades lately.

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