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For as long as I can remember, Americans have looked at caustic regimes and said, "They're not bad people, they just have a very wicked, evil government." Sometimes, that notion is true. Sometimes, it isn't.

We continue to pretend that there could never be an evil culture with popular (actually zealous) support. We explain away the Nazis as having had little support among the German people. The left glosses over Stalin's five year plans and Mao's Cultural Revolution. Select a current American college student at random and ask, "Killing Fields, your thoughts?" Don't expect an answer about Cambodia.

The Islamic Third World has a problem: Grassroots Islamofascism.

Today, that means bad things for Afghans who convert to Christianity.

What does it mean to us? What does it mean to us if the government of nuclear-armed Pakistan falls? What does it mean when Iran gets the bomb?

The silliness of presidential rhetoric regarding the "religion of peace," "democracy," and "freedom" have sounded to me like a typical awkward, acne-pocked, my-dad-helped-me-write-it high school "student council" speech from the start. We're not going to win this war against Islamic terrorism by reasoning. We haven't been attacked by reasonable people. Rahman is not under popular threat of death by reasonable people.

p>We win this war against Islamofascism by beating it into submission. No matter how unfair that is. Now matter how "undemocratic" it is. Now matter how much it "imposes our morality on others." Just do it. I don't want to get nuked. br> -- Mark Stewart br> Jacksonville, Florida /p>

The tragedy of Abdul Rahman? Hardly.

He was spared. And what nearly led to his execution points out, once again, that Islam is not the "religion of peace" -- much less, tolerance -- when it comes to other faiths or religions, especially Christianity.

The tragedy? That this president and his administration, and even their opponents, wishing to and continuing to portray Islam as peaceful and tolerant.

p>Another disaster? The president, his administration and America, in general -- because the president and his administration are so muddled and non-communicative -- forgetting that the only reason we're in Afghanistan is to kill the terrorists, whether or not they're called Taliban.

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