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Destroying, degrading or containing the Islamic State whichever goal President Obama chooses will be the easy part. Finding ways for fundamentalist Islam to express itself peacefully is a bigger, tougher and more important project.In his remarks following the beheading of journalist Steven Sotloff, Obama offered a smorgasbord of options. Our objective is clear, and that is to degrade and destroy the Islamic State, <a href=http://capstone.edu.sg/images/guccioutlet.onlinesalecc.php>Gucci Outlet</a>  he said, although it sounded like two different objectives. He added that the goal was to make sure that the Islamic State is not an ongoing threat to the region. Then he said the aim was to reduce the terrorist group to a manageable problem. Before the warmongers have a cow, keep in mind that Obama s idea of managing a terrorism problem involves killing people, without warning, even in countries where we are not at war. Just this week he authorized an airstrike in Somalia in an attempt to kill the leader of al-Shabab, an al-Qaeda offshoot. Obama s fondness for drones as instruments of surveillance and assassination is such that any terrorist leader is foolhardy if he ventures to take out the garbage.But the Islamic State is clearly not manageable in its current state, flush with weapons, cash and eager recruits and occupying a huge tract of land in Iraq and Syria. Obama will have to destroy or degrade, but all the focus on his decision misses the larger context: the fundamentalist political instinct that the Islamic State represents, or rather misrepresents.We re talking about 15,000 or so fighters not much of a challenge for the greatest military force the world has ever known. Why not just smash this group and be done with it? Let s look at recent history.The U.S. military invaded Afghanistan following the 9/11 attacks, quickly routed the Taliban and eliminated the safe haven from which Osama bin Laden orchestrated his mayhem. Eventually, al-Qaeda was decimated and bin Laden was killed.But jihad did not disappear, it metastasized. It turned up in Yemen, where an active al-Qaeda affiliate plotted attacks against the United <a href=http://capstone.edu.sg/images/gucciusaonlineoutlet.php> cheap gucci</a>  States, including the failed underwear bombing. It emerged in Iraq, after the U.S. invasion and the toppling of Saddam Hussein created a vacuum for extremists to fill. It popped up in Somalia, in Libya, in Mali.The Islamic State s vision of conflict in the Middle East as part of a centuries-old struggle between faithful Muslims and infidel crusaders is apocalyptic and insane. But there is a less-crazy version of this narrative involving colonialism and oil that many people accept, especially in Arab countries. The dictators who held power in the Middle East for much of the 20th century, propped up by the West, were brutal in repressing the Muslim Brotherhood and other religiously inspired political movements. Yet even when they were outlawed and driven underground, these movements managed to survive and grow.When Hosni Mubarak was deposed in Egypt, creating another of those sudden vacuums, the political force most ready to step in was the Muslim Brotherhood. Mohamed Morsi had the chance to show the world that a government led by an Islamist party could be fair, tolerant and effective. The United <a href=http://www.museosangennaro.com/Public/anel.php> Christian Louboutin Shoes Outlet</a>  States and its allies had the chance to help Morsi succeed.He failed, and so did we.Had things worked out differently, Obama would be able to point to Egypt as an example for frustrated young Muslims who feel powerless. Instead, the jihadists point to Egypt and say: Look, my brothers, it is as we told you. They will never allow pious Muslims to hold power, not even in our own lands.There is much about fundamentalist Islam that is incompatible with even abhorrent to the modern world. I m not talking about the Islamic State s obscene and theatrical violence, which appalls and disgusts devout Muslims. I refer mostly to a set of attitudes about women that need to be aired, challenged and reformed. This kind of positive change can take place, but only in the open. Repression strengthens the hand of the hard-liners.Political Islam cannot be bombed away. If it is not somehow allowed constructive expression, it will make itself heard, and felt, in more tragic ways.  
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TROY, MO.聽鈥?The championship game of the eighth annual Troy Lead-off Tournament Saturday was a game of momentum swings.Good thing for the host Trojans that they had the last big shift in earning a 11-7 win over Fort Zumwalt North in the title contest.鈥淲e're just an overall positive team and we try to keep each other up,鈥?Troy senior outfielder Bri Livingston said. 鈥淲e have seven seniors on the team and that senior leadership is important.鈥滱fter jumping out to a six-run <a href=http://www.alportico.net/prodotti/christianlouboutin-sale.jkmsw.php>Christian Louboutin Online</a>  lead and then giving it all back, Troy (7-1, No. 6 in the STLhighschoolsports.com large-school softball rankings) scored five of the game's final six runs to earn the win.The difference-making inning was the sixth in which Troy sent eight hitters to the plate and scored four times. The biggest hits were a pair of RBI doubles from Livingston and Alyssa Rivera to help put the game out of reach.鈥淚t's just good to know that I have my teammates behind me, supporting me and not putting too much pressure on me鈥?said Livingston, who was 4-for-4 with two doubles <a href=http://capstone.edu.sg/clreplicashoes.php> Christian Louboutin Outlet Online</a>  and two RBI. 鈥淪o, I'm just up there very relaxed.鈥滲oth Troy and Zumwalt North (7-2, No. 4 LS) scored single tallies between the bottom of the sixth (North) and top of the seventh (Troy) to close out the scoring.Prior to that, the sides took turns ripping off six successive runs.Troy scored four runs in the first, with Rivera providing a two-run single to account for the heavy lifting and the Trojans added two more in the third on Zumwalt North errors.鈥淲e know we can hit anybody,鈥?Troy coach Lance Richardson said. 鈥淲e go out there and we bend, but we just don't break.鈥漐umwalt North answered with six runs of its own as the Panthers tallied four in the fourth inning and two more in the fifth.In the fourth, seven North hitters came to the plate and the Panthers got a bases-loaded double to right center from Niki Swafford.鈥淲e made a lot of mistakes today that we don't usually make,鈥?Zumwalt North coach Steve Siebert said. 鈥淢entally, coming back and fighting, that's what these girls have done all season. I'm proud of them for that.鈥滺aley Rotert earned the win in relief for Troy. Shelby Clark suffered the loss for North.Clark said that the Trojans not recording a 1-2-3 inning until the seventh was something less than desirable.鈥淚t was frustrating,鈥?Rotert said. 鈥淭hat's how it turns out sometimes, I guess. It (the win) was the thing we wanted, though. We got it.鈥滾ivingston added that the championship, which included wins <a href=http://www.alportico.net/gosoc.php>true religion jeans</a>  over Winfield, Warrenton and Highland, Mo., was big.鈥淲e won this for four years before finishing third last year,鈥?Livingston said. 鈥淚t was important to us to get this title back and we did it.鈥滻n the third place game, Lafayette downed Highland, Mo., 8-5."We had a lot of great things today," Lafayette coach Scott DeNoyer said. "We moved people around and put people in different situations. Overall, I'm very pleased with how things went."
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@@@ TROY, MO.聽鈥?The championship game of the eighth annual Troy Lead-off Tournament Saturday was a game of momentum swings.Good thing for the host Trojans that they had the last big shift in earning a 11-7 win over Fort Zumwalt North in the title contest.鈥淲e're just an overall positive team and we try to keep each other up,鈥?Troy senior outfielder Bri Livingston said. 鈥淲e have seven seniors on the team and that senior leadership is important.鈥滱fter jumping out to a six-run <a href=http://www.alportico.net/prodotti/christianlouboutin-sale.jkmsw.php>Christian Louboutin Online</a> lead and then giving it all back, Troy (7-1, No. 6 in the STLhighschoolsports.com large-school softball rankings) scored five of the game's final six runs to earn the win.The difference-making inning was the sixth in which Troy sent eight hitters to the plate and scored four times. The biggest hits were a pair of RBI doubles from Livingston and Alyssa Rivera to help put the game out of reach.鈥淚t's just good to know that I have my teammates behind me, supporting me and not putting too much pressure on me鈥?said Livingston, who was 4-for-4 with two doubles <a href=http://capstone.edu.sg/clreplicashoes.php> Christian Louboutin Outlet Online</a> and two RBI. 鈥淪o, I'm just up there very relaxed.鈥滲oth Troy and Zumwalt North (7-2, No. 4 LS) scored single tallies between the bottom of the sixth (North) and top of the seventh (Troy) to close out the scoring.Prior to that, the sides took turns ripping off six successive runs.Troy scored four runs in the first, with Rivera providing a two-run single to account for the heavy lifting and the Trojans added two more in the third on Zumwalt North errors.鈥淲e know we can hit anybody,鈥?Troy coach Lance Richardson said. 鈥淲e go out there and we bend, but we just don't break.鈥漐umwalt North answered with six runs of its own as the Panthers tallied four in the fourth inning and two more in the fifth.In the fourth, seven North hitters came to the plate and the Panthers got a bases-loaded double to right center from Niki Swafford.鈥淲e made a lot of mistakes today that we don't usually make,鈥?Zumwalt North coach Steve Siebert said. 鈥淢entally, coming back and fighting, that's what these girls have done all season. I'm proud of them for that.鈥滺aley Rotert earned the win in relief for Troy. Shelby Clark suffered the loss for North.Clark said that the Trojans not recording a 1-2-3 inning until the seventh was something less than desirable.鈥淚t was frustrating,鈥?Rotert said. 鈥淭hat's how it turns out sometimes, I guess. It (the win) was the thing we wanted, though. We got it.鈥滾ivingston added that the championship, which included wins <a href=http://www.alportico.net/gosoc.php>true religion jeans</a> over Winfield, Warrenton and Highland, Mo., was big.鈥淲e won this for four years before finishing third last year,鈥?Livingston said. 鈥淚t was important to us to get this title back and we did it.鈥滻n the third place game, Lafayette downed Highland, Mo., 8-5."We had a lot of great things today," Lafayette coach Scott DeNoyer said. "We moved people around and put people in different situations. Overall, I'm very pleased with how things went."

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