Terrorists cant stop Armies, Money and Oil.

[Occhidiangela]

Well said.

Maybe what we need is more insensitive trampling on Islamic fundamentalism, so that raw nerve grows numb.  But, I doubt it.
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Thanks for the first bit. :) To reply to that last bit.

The past 50 years assault on Christian sensibilities (what Allan Sherman called the Rape of the A*P*E) has benumbed some, and induced a backlash in others. I suspect the same will be the same in the Muslim world.

The "minority of violent jerks" myth needs to be squashed. It only takes a minority of violent and driven folk to upset any number of things in a civilized society, in a civilized world. Their small numbers are made up for by zeal and energy, as well as commitment. It isn't the size of the dog in the fight, it is the size of the fight in the dog. ;)

There aren't all that many folks in Al Qaeda. So what, their zeal and energy have had immense consequences. Black September was not a large organization, their murder of Olympians in 1972 had profound follow on effects. That fact of human interaction won't change any time soon: the driven people change the world for the rest of the people.

It was a small core of revolutionaries who made the Oktober Revolution work.

It was a minority of dedicated men who led the American Revolution.

It was a small, dedicated force under Garibaldi that took Sicily from the Austrians.

And So On.

Occhi

A*P*E stood for "American Puritan Ethic"