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To: LarryLied
No, it's an American-Islamist conflict -- Bin Laden's goons didn't kill 3,000 Americans because they had a beef with Israel. They had a beef with the U.S., namely, our presence on Arab soil -- the very Arab soil that is the holiest in Islam, namely Saudi Arabia.

If Israel didn't exist, we'd still have a presence there for one simple reason: oil. And they would still have a beef with the U.S., and the Saudis would still exploit their people, and support terrorism, and this war would still be in danger of spiraling out of control.

8 posted on 04/30/2002 2:50:29 PM PDT by browardchad
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To: browardchad
No, it's an American-Islamist conflict

That is not and is very unlikely ever to be the official policy of hte government of the United States.

We are not about to dump our Muslim allies. We are not going to fight one billion Muslims.

11 posted on 04/30/2002 2:56:04 PM PDT by LarryLied
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