Taliban border havens targeted

As the West tries to circumvent the shifting sands of the Saudia Arabian hold on the House of Mecca it might behoove we who care about the future of America and Israel to aquire some perspective that might advance our understanding in confronting the basis on which we are being judged by radical Islam and the west's blind reaction to it: Osama bin Laden; the Global Terrorist as revealed by St. Paul of Tarsus. If one reads Thessalonians II 2: 3-4 one will get what I call a "shiver" of recognition. Here is the quote in full after St. Paul discusses the day of Christ to come; "Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped, so that he sits as God in the House of God, showing himself that he is God." While some might be amused by such recondrite blasphemy it certainly seems that Osama bin Laden has judged the West and, apparently with Allah's help, has carried out his judgment on the "great Satan" of the corrupt West as if he were, indeed; "God". By sitting on the throne of Mecca spiritually it is Osama who has done more than just begun World War III; he has made sure that it will be the last War; the Holy War; the showdown between what radical Islam calls "the people of Salvation" and the fallen West. While some might smile at such antics with the power the west possesses in it's arsenal we might look again at the prophetic core of belief that is driving the forces intent on their coming Armegeddeon. Can it be avoided? My answer is yes; we can bring about an "internal Jihad" which Muhammed always said was the true struggle as opposed to the frankly profane "external Jihad"; as can be seen in one of his most famous sayings, to wit; "The ink of the learned is holier than the blood of the martyr" There are quite a few instances of Muhammed telling his men on the way back from battle to face the real jihad before them in overcoming the fallen desires and attitudes of the Self; which he described as the real enemy; the old serpent being the old ego itself; of which he knew full well; as have the elect through the millenia. Moderate or "rational" Islam has always been guided by it's innate sense of justice which respects the 3 monotheistic religions as being the fruit historically of the 3 sons of Noah; Ham being the Hamitic race or Egypt; Japeth the elder being the Pathanic race or Assyria; and Shem being the father of the Semitic race or Israel. Sayings such as the one in Isaiah that goes "Egypt; my people; Assyria (and Syria) the work of my hands; and Israel mine inheritence" can best be seen in this light; 3 brothers whose mutual relationship and origin are really one; despite the outer differences.