Greg, theology is a part of it, as it seems so much, too much a part of everything, but I'm reminded of the Scottish professor who said, It's not the thing that's the thing but the thing behind it that's the thing. Or, as Gore Vidal wrote in Point to Point Navigation, "I don't think anyone has ever found startling the notion that it is not what things are that matters so much as how they are perceived."
However disparate our views on this, from the evidence it appears our strategy is not working, militarily or philosophically. Pull-outs from Iraq and Afghanistan are favoured by two out of three here, there and everywhere: a three-peat for bin Laden. Changing of our unqualified support for Israel would be a good start but it won't happen.
On a lighter note, I wonder about portents for the future since the commanders-in-chief of the struggle profess to commune with Allah and God. Again, on the evidence, it seems the Gods are in cahoots to bring us together, to stop mindless crusading, to make us strive harder for peace.
Last edited by King Brown; 09/17/07 08:31 AM.
