How have you beaten me exactly Mr. Finstone ? Just for your information, the purpose of mindfull debates is not always to beat eachother. But I have to assume that in your simplistic vision of life, there are the good ones and the bad ones, that the good ones need to kill as many bad ones as possible, and that is it.
You say: The reason there are terrorists is simply because it works.
Now, tell me, because what works ? What is their goal ? What are they asking ? Why are they acting in such a radical way ? Something must be pissing them badly for them to do all of that. This is what I`d like to know.
And you can use the french as a typical example of weasels all you want.
The fact is that they are living peacefully with a population over 20% muslim now. And even better, we have assimilated those muslims, and made them adopt our values. Those who are too radical get thrown out of the country. Also, there can be lessons to learn from de Gaulle, who solved the crisis of Algeria in the 60s, a situation very similar that with Iraq now. Well, except that there was not that much oil in Algeria. You seem to want to stick to the war against terror mantra, and not look beyond that.
Aurel