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Entry: Killing Women and Children First Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/killing_women_and_children_first#34302 Post contents: Senor Doug, “Pray identify this enemy for me. I see no evidence of a flotilla of Arab warships, poised to add us to the caliphate the moment we let our guard down." The present threat is this…Bin Laden and those like him desire to overthrow apostate regimes in the Middle East. They have also recognized that the most effective way to rally the masses to their cause is to attack the Unite States and Israel. Consider what 911 did for recruitment. Michael Scheuer and Ron Paul are wrong. It is not Bin Laden’ message and it is not our actions that have created so much support for Islamic terrorism, it is Bin Laden’s actions, a truly magnificent display of power that gave all young men in the Islamic world a taste of glory. We can thus anticipate further attacks against us for the simple reason that this will help his short-term objective of establishing a Caliphate. Your argument is also completely shortsighted. Consider for a moment that prior to the 1917, Russia was a backwards, third world agrarian nation who presented no real threat to the world. Thirty years later the Soviet Union was a superpower. Now imagine that a Bin Laden was successful in overthrowing the Saudi regime. Certainly this would increase the threat he would present to the United States exponentially. Do you really think a Bin Laden would be satisfied with just Saudi Arabia, or would the entire Middle East be his next target? And do you think that even this would be enough to satisfy his expansionist creed? In either of these two scenarios, our current dependency on foreign oil would give an enemy like this an easy target to cause catastrophic destruction. Sent at: 2008 12 01