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I believe that the most appropriate way to negotiate with terrorists is to use a weapon big enough to kill as many of them as possible with the least amount of collateral damage. I don't have any problem whatsoever with the United States going anywhere in the world to eliminate the very real threat that Islamic terrorists represent.

I'm quite sure that opening up new territories for them to operate in is hardly in our interests, however.

I have a problem with ignorant people who think like Usama bin Laden - in other words, I have a problem with those who wish to turn this into a war with Islam.

Yeah, yeah, yeah ... bin Laden and those like-minded use a bastardized form of Islam as the justification for their politics. A 30-second search on google will turn up any number of hate groups that use a bastardized form of any number of religions as the justification for their hate (the "Christian [sic] Identity" morons leap to mind immediately, but there are many, many others).

I think the idea that we can just somehow "stop fighting" and the other guy will stop is almost as niave as those who advocate politics and tactics identical to those that have failed for almost the entire 20th century and expect a victory. The net result of both forms of fancy is more death.

Islamic fundamentalism in this era is a logical progression from the Pan-Arab movements that sprung up in the post-colonial era, and for much the same reasons - a legacy of centuries of political and economic exploitation. Failure to address the underlying attraction of Islamic fundamentalism while undertaking military action to defend ourselves from the very real threat will cause an escalation of the conflict, and not make us any safer.