Talk about the question of the century...had Anwar Sadat not been killed, had the Soviets not invaded Afghanistan, had there been no Six Day War, had the CIA not installed the Shah of Iran etc, what would be different?

We'll never know, but in the meantime it appears that there are a lot of folks who want to kill us, they have money to spend, explosives and toxins to buy, a supply of suicidal recruits, little desire to support anything but stone-age theocracies, and an inclination to subjugate women. Not exactly a group of Bauhaus visionaries we are talking about.

It appears that turning the other cheek is not an option. If there is a Mahatma Ghandi way out of this clash of civilizations, let me know where to sign up.

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