From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Monte Davis wrote:
> Adam  wrote:
>
>
>>They'd say yes but many other muslims would tell them to piss off.
>
>
> There's a small, mostly ignored but IMHO very sensible group of
> commentators who interpret what's going on in the Islamic world as
> primarily internal, a cultural "civil war," with the much-trumpeted
> AQ-vs-the-West as one faction's way of playing to the home crowd. Of
> course, that's absurd because it would imply the Middle Ki-- I mean,
> the US isn't the center of everything.
>
> Once again, "all politics is local..."
>
Ah well...the middle kingdom is back on the rise so the US will have to get
more used to people not considering the US as anything other than a useful
enemy to scare the kids with.

Adam

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