..but then again: the unknowing vanguard of USA

[Dechristo]

Sunni

[Dave_Schuldt]

Radical Islam's lasting contribution to history might be the establishment of global American power.

 

U.S. military forces can now achieve something unprecedented in military history, namely they can project and sustain sea-based and air-based power into Central Asia. This unprecedented capability allows the United States to project and sustain power anywhere in Asia from anywhere else in Asia, from the Middle East to the Pacific, with virtual impunity, constituting a veritable strategic revolution

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Facing pressure from Russia and China to end America's military presence in two Central Asian states, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld won assurances Tuesday from Kyrgyzstan's new leaders that they would not shut down a U.S. base on Kyrgyz soil used for combat and humanitarian missions in Afghanistan…snip snip cut…In 2001, there was a sense that Russia was incapable of providing security for Central Asia," said Ivan Safranchuk, an analyst with the Center for Defense Information in Moscow. "But Russian leaders always had this nightmare scenario: What if the U.S. did not leave? What if they deceive us and stay in Central Asia for much longer than planned?"

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That's great PP, now think, do you want to pay for it?

[prole]

One doesn't need to look towards oil revenue as a source of funding for various militant Islams. America's Cold War-era funding of fundamentalist schools, arms proliferation, support of Arab dictatorships, the suppression of secular alternatives, and networking of military bases in the Arab heartland have been amply documented as sources of the rise of Islamic fundamentalisms.