peace

If the West, and in particular the United States, is shrewd enough to recognize, acknowledge and set about remedying the justifiable grievances that bin Laden and other Muslim ideologues have articulated, the fate of the violent wing of Islamic fundamentalism may well be in the hands of its opponents.

Islamic fundamentalism will prove to be a hydra: Cut off one head and four more will grow in its place. The rhetoric of Islamic fundamentalism, which mixes authentic calls for justice with openly un-Islamic calls for deadly violence, will be seen as hollow and, indeed, sinful only if those in the West begins to take seriously its responsibility for people who live outside their national borders, but whose resources they routinely consume.

See, this is what I've been talking abouit all this time, and all I ever hear is" appeasement? Is that what you want? To just give the terrorists what they want?" Or the implication that if we acknowledge that our actions and policies had anything to do with the deaths of 3,000 people on September 11th, 2001, we admit that it was our fault.

Full article here.

long weekend

I've got one more piece of dryall to hang. Then I'm going shopping for tile.

EPCOT

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