Islam, the new Nazism ?

[Not So Wise]

which makes the USA's agenda to impose capitalist democracy on the rest of the world al the more sensible. It is no coincidence that the wealthier a nation the less influence religion exerts.

ROFLMAO
Not paid any attention to the current political climate in the USA have you?

Bush would not even have come close to being reelected without the backing of the various religious groups and now he has another 4 years to continue placeing his underqualified nutjobs in postions of power, like the 24 year old old non graduate, politically appointed NASA PR exec demanding that the Scientists put "theory" after Big Bang to drag it down to the same level as "Inteligent design" for the kids.

The growing power of the religious right/moderates in the USA scares me 100 times more than any muslim fanatic with 10kg of semtex strapped to his chest because the former have already managed to get their idiot to a position where he has a finger on the nukes.

[Not So Wise]

As we all know, they are a muslim country with a known nuclear capability - they do however appear to be more "westernised" than their middle-eastern cousins.

From what i am able to determin, their elite/upper society is westernised but the vast majority of the population are not

[DodgyAgent]

ROFLMAO
Not paid any attention to the current political climate in the USA have you?

Bush would not even have come close to being reelected without the backing of the various religious groups and now he has another 4 years to continue placeing his underqualified nutjobs in postions of power, like the 24 year old old non graduate, politically appointed NASA PR exec demanding that the Scientists put "theory" after Big Bang to drag it down to the same level as "Inteligent design" for the kids.

The growing power of the religious right/moderates in the USA scares me 100 times more than any muslim fanatic with 10kg of semtex strapped to his chest because the former have already managed to get their idiot to a position where he has a finger on the nukes.

The point that I am making is that democracy waters down the powers of extremists. If the US become too aggressive then it will find itself being "corrected" through International Trade and economics. This will have an effect on business in the US which will feed its way to the ballot baox. The danger with the US is that there is no other economy challenging it.

[xoggoth]

That's the first sensible point in favour of globalisation I have read.

[Fungus]

That's the first sensible point in favour of globalisation I have read.

From an agent too. The world is becoming scarier as the years go by.