>Dude rocks................................
>
>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n09/liev01_.html
Rather chilling conclusion:
>Even if despair and apathy turn out to be the responses of the Arab
>majority, there will also be a minority which is too proud, too
>radical, too fanatical or too embittered - take your pick - for such
>a course. They are the natural recruits for terrorism, and it seems
>likely that their numbers will only have been increased by the
>latest American victory. We must fear both the strengthening of
>Islamist terrorism and the reappearance of secular nationalist
>terrorism, not only among Palestinians but among Arabs in general.
>The danger is not so much that the Bush Administration will
>consciously adopt the whole Neo-Con imperialist programme as that
>the Neo-Cons and their allies will contribute to tendencies stemming
>inexorably from the US occupation of Iraq and that the result will
>be a vicious circle of terrorism and war. If this proves to be the
>case, then the damage inflicted over time by the US on the Muslim
>world and by Muslims on the US and its allies is likely to be
>horrendous. We have already shown that we can destroy Muslim states.
>Even the most ferocious terrorist attacks will not do that to
>Western states; but if continued over decades, they stand a good
>chance of destroying democracy in America and any state associated
>with it.