"Mark Browne" wrote in message news:dcSdnbd-

Yep, the PNAC site lays it all our pretty well.

Not only PNAC. The necessary strategy is clear to any who can see past
their own nose. As I said earlier "...nor were they difficult to see right
from the start by those who cared to look."


This has
always been about the strategic securing of the mid-east

... Oil ...

Simplistic leftists would like everyone to believe that it is all about oil,
but it's about the strategic securing of the mid-east. The reliable flow of
crude is, by definition, part of the equation.

And tell me abain how well has the west been about to pull this off over
the
last thousand or so years?

Now here is an odd little snippet - tell me again about this coalition of
the willing?

Telling choice of adjective. Would it would be better if they were ultra
modern?

Any cogent point you may have been trying to make in these previous three
paragraphs has eluded me.

with primitive theocratic notions of law and society

Right on! Tell that to the US religouis right!

Have Christian sects in the US set up their own governments and legal
systems? Did I miss the news today? If you seriously attempt to equate the
Christian right in the US with Muslim fundamentalist theocracies, you have
truly lost touch.


Destrction of everything we hold dear? Correct me if I got this wrong -

You're wrong.

In reading through the OBL stuff on the web, I did not see much
about the destruction of the west. Perhaps you have a cite that can clear
this up for me?

Cite, Shmite. If you look for legitimate plans and goals of al Qaida et al
on their websites, your naiveté will show through. All you have to do is
look around you.