India is number 3 in the Muslim world after Indonesia and Pakistan. Also, how can you even think of using India as a god example. There is sectarian violence there all the time. They have been having a not so cold war with Pakistan for years, and they are guilty of some of the worst horrors our modern world has seen. Not to mention the caste system.
Your arguments usually seem more well reasoned to me man. What would the US do if we were being rocketed and having our citizens kidnapped? > -----Original Message----- > From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 8:57 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: comments? > > > > Dino wrote: > > So what should they do instead? Just die? > > I understand the question, but the Israeli reaction wasn't to a huge > ramp up in missiles, it was to the capture of 2 soldiers - point being > that Israel wasn't being invaded, just provoked and they took the > bait. > > Israel should have appealed to the world (keep reading): Arab > governments, UN, NATO, Russia, etc. Then, given no action, it should > have prepared for full scale invasion possibly lining up allies to > help. And then it should have sent its ultimatum to Lebanon and the > world. And then it should sent in ground forces after a few bombing > runs. > > Hezbollah is more powerful now before this started. They don't give a > shit about losing rockets - with the deep pockets behind them they can > buy anything they want. What they really need is people and public > support and Israel just haded it to them on a silver video screen full > of dying and dead civilians. > > As to the way to handle Muslim extremists the world should get a clue > from the largest Muslim country in the world: India. Economic > prosperity and hope for the future is the ONLY force that will defeat > extremism. > > And, if you don't believe that, look to Korea, Japan, Singapore, > China, etc, etc. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:212080 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
