I believe that the fundamentalist movement will eventually pose a hemispheric and ultimately a global military threat for several reasons. First, their avowed hostility and hatred of all things Western makes the U.S. and indeed Western culture and civilization a natural enemy of theirs. Second, they are on their way to becoming a global threat because as they rise to power in additional countries their military capabilities and strength will accordingly increase. I also worry about the black market in weapons of mass destruction caused by the disintegration of the former Soviet Union. It's never been easier in all of recorded history for terrorists and terrorist-supporting regimes like Iran to get their hands on nuclear and other nonconventional weapons.
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