>I appreciate your posting about the horrors in Chechnya.  Certainly US
>influence could be used to mitigate the slaughter there.  However, your
>recent generalizations about Islam make less sense to me.

Sorry, I didn't spend enough time on it.

>Actually, I think you have to be careful here.  The largest Islamic nation
>in the world is Indonesia.  One of the most fundamentalist Islamic nations
>is Saudi Arabia.  Close allies both.  Certainly foreign policy decisions by
>US planners take more into account than religious orientation.

Didn't know that stat on Indonesia but am well aware of Saudi Arabia and
their ties with the US.

What I was basically trying to say -- in too few words -- was that the media
was moving from communist to muslim enemies since 1989.  Of course, it
doesn't have to make sense or be consistent, just effective in mobilizing
the masses to unnecessary military spending.

Milutin

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