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To suggest we are at war with a political ideology as against a religion is to suggest that there is a seperation between them. It suggests that among those we are describing, there is a distinction between religion and politics.
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I think that's spot on. The other thing is you can't blame it off on a minority if the minority is the face that we have to deal with - it becomes Islam - at this time as practiced by these people. Drug dealers in Colombia are a very small minority of the population. They were, however, the face (may still be externally) of Colombia that the rest of the world had to deal with. Therefore, all policy decisions were driven by it. Not just US policy - their neighbors too.
qrq - in my opinion, your statement is off. It should read "Everything that is true of Islam
was true of Christianity." And therein lies the problem. Even in the days of the Vatican's call for Liberation Theology, there were never more than a handful of adherents and no major wars were fought because of them.
Good to see D9 and Jimbo arguing again.