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There seems to be little disagreement among Americans as to who our archenemy is these days. No doubt it is radical Islam, the people who are suicide bombing innocent civilians, who are killing our troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, and causing strife throughout the Middle East. But it's not our enemy we need be concerned with, it's the enemy that the Islamists see that we need to recognize. 

Any time one of our politicians or diplomats use the word crusade, lower case c, righteously meaning the war of good versus evil, in the Middle East the word is seen as Crusade with a capital C. Notice just recently when NATO was debating whether to conduct the war against Libya, the one Muslim nation in NATO, Turkey, demurred for a while strictly on the basis of the use of that epithet. The word Crusade, to the Muslim world conjures up images of hordes of Christian horsemen trampling the heathens on their way to Jerusalem, even now, ten centuries later. 

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