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Originally posted by Mule
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First, I didn't say that there are no reasonable muslims. 
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Looks like I don't need to rebute.
The thrust of my argument was that:
1. The West is set up to fight wars against foes who have armies and control territory.
2. The war against terrorism is a war against an ideology that has no army or territory
3.The very way that the west fights wars is anthectical to winning a war against an ideology. The West has a 50/50 chanch of making the situation...war worse with every mo
ve it makes trying to fight a war it's way.
4. The way the west fights wars against the material...is ineffective against the ideology...thus it has no way of winning the war...it will drag on indefinately.
5. At some point in time the idological warrior may deliver a death blow to the west with a WMD or a series of WMD attacks. There will be no victory parades by the enemy through NYC, but a gradual wearing away of the will to resist. It may take 100 years or more to accomplish the goal.
6. If the West is gradually worn down by terroism, it will resemble the decline of a once good neighborhood into disrepair. Economic activity will slow, the technological revloution will grind to a stop and the world will fall into a new dark ages. As the ideological warrior is not a progressive force but a regressive one.