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Entry: Mr. bin Laden, Meet Mr. Kennan--A New Containment Policy Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/mr_bin_laden_meet_mr_kennan_a_new_containment_policy#19754 Post contents: Without venturing through the maze of commentary on Balkan History, the nature of torture and the like, I just want to commend you Scott for putting forth an intelligent proposal for dealing with the Islamic world. It seems to me that our History as a Christian, Western people has over the centuries rested not on our defeat of the Muslims so much as on our ability to circumvent them. When the rise of Islam cut Western Europe off from the wealth of the Mediterranean we developed superior agriculture and weaponry and overland trade. When they cut off trade to the far east, we took our superior technology to sea and dominated the world. Now we have to make their strangle hold on oil as irrelevant as their grip on the spice trade once was. You are right in that the Muslim threat is only proportional to our indulgence of it. Quarantine the primitives in their own lands and surpass them with our technical prowess. But here is the, rub. How do we save the Christian West even as the Christians renounce their their own identity? Can we save the edifice of the West even when there may be nothing within? Sent at: 2008 11 23