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To: VaBthang4
The West is a society based on freedom whereas Islam is a society based on virtue.

Freedom is a value. Virtue is the action whereby one keeps it.

Another journalism school grad who flunked philosophy.

4 posted on 07/01/2004 5:45:40 PM PDT by snopercod (We have not journeyed across the centuries, oceans, mountains, & prairies because we are sugar candy)
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To: snopercod

Bush is pushing Turkey as a model for the new Iraq, which is not an unrealistic prospect. It would be a start anyway and the example would certainly cause the people in other Arab countries to clamour for change.


5 posted on 07/01/2004 5:59:08 PM PDT by draoi
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