Bush is a skillful politician.
He could have just as easily said, "Our enemies do not include square circles," or, "Our enemies do not include all the tall people that are short."
Square circles, short tall people, and IMHO, peaceful moslems, do not exist, and so logically, they are not our enemies....
That was the last administration from Arkansas that did all the windmill tilting, finding enemies where there were none. IMHO there are some moslems that are more timid than others, particularly those that have been harshly subjugated and repressed by their own, but I believe that violence is engendered by the tenets of the religion...And I don't want to hear this B.S. about, "Islam literally translates to, "submission," or surrender." I would love to log onto FR, or watch the news ONE night, One frigging single night, and not hear of a single act of violence perpetrated in the cause of Islam. I'm not saying that there are not (nominally) Christian or Jewish, Or Sikh, etc criminals and terrorists...Just that they know how to take a break once in a while, and in most cases, their acts are NOT perpetrated for religious reasons. You could easily throw the IRA in my face, but I would still argue that they have conducted Political acts in the name of religion. Islamic funda-"mentals" conduct religious acts in the names of politics...and that's the, "fundamental" difference.
"I can support a war against terrorists but not condone killing off muslims who've got nothing to do with the terror. Clear?"
In humility, and for argument's sake, I will concede to and agree with that entire statement. Having become a recent advocate and supporter of your world-view, my first bit of advice is that each and every day, the acts of our brother-moslems are making it increasingly difficult to convince the rest of the world that there is such a thing as a, "muslims who've got nothing to with the terror." Try selling that perspective to Israel. Now consider that what Israel has generally accepted with great restraint for decades has been visited upon skyscrapers in NYC, tourism hubs in Bali, and damn near the tubes in London...
"Now consider that what Israel has generally accepted with great restraint for decades has been visited upon skyscrapers in NYC, tourism hubs in Bali, and damn near the tubes in London..."
...And I mustn't forget, theater-goers in Moscow, and Filipino missionaries.
radical muslim warriors ought be made aware that their choices of targets are really making them look like a bunch of pu$$ies. Let's see...I'm a he-man moslem...let me prove as much by attacking:
a) Any western airline stewardess.
b) A Moscow opera-goer.
c) An Israeli junior school.
d) A western Missionarry in the Phillipines.
e) Any woman that showed a bit of ankle.
If the FBI is building a proper victim profile database, it's likely to indicate the next targets will be our hairdressers, kindergartens and flute recitals. The prophet is proud, I'm sure... the profit would be honored, I'm sure.