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Originally posted by Azred:
That's why we should just become an empire, moving in and taking over. [img]graemlins/petard.gif[/img]
No, the tide of terrorism will never completely abate, but enough people in the Middle East will get tired of being blamed for every nut-case terrorist who does anything anywhere in the world and they will try to put an end to it themsleves.
If you think that Islamic terrorists will topple the US, then by logical extension you probably think that Basque separatists will topple Spain and Quebecois separatists will topple Canada. Right....
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Not folowing my logic, in which the key to the struggle is ideology. In this case they are bnot ideologically oppossed and have clear objectives. Islamic terrorist see the US as a direct threat to their way of life, and vice vera, as with the USSR and the USA. Only with the elimintation of the powerbase of one ideology would the hypothetical conflict end. As islamic extremism does not have this clear base, and attempts to destroy it country by country would ahve the effect of strengthing support for the extremists, the USA is more likely to colapse than the extremists.
I don't believe that their will be a World conflict again in the same way, warfare has changed once again, in the same way there are no longer frequent conflict between several rival European powers. I am not saying there shall not be conflict, but I believe it will take a new shape, one which i cannot predict.