text: can president bush win the war on terrorism without fighting the ideas that creates terror?   ok, (taking a long breath) it really does not get more complex than this. in fact, to break it down, one first has to look at what are these 'ideas'behind the creation of terror. who are the real terrorists, and according to whose point of view are we defining these ideas of terror? this situations is something of a 'clash of civilizations' huntington warned us about. obviously fukuyama's end of history is still not clear in sight. it is also similar to the cold war, just that this time it got a bit hotter! in the c.war we saw 2 ideologies that simply could not live together in the same planet. the world lived in terror until one prevailed. here, too we have two very diverging ideologies, and sooner or later one will have to prevail. the globe is becoming too small for too much variety, and in fact we all will need to move, more or less, together, bc when one is left behind, the civilization's clash will only grow deeper.   in order to prevent this from becoming limitless....  can the man george w.bush (jr) end terrorism? probably not, but perhaps the un and various other international forums where states can diplomatically speak their minds, are our only hopes. education is also key.. as most of these ppl do not know the cause they're fighting for but simply believe in their leaders that the enemy is the 'devil'. one ideology has to prevail, as we cant live with more than one superpower (there will be endless wars) its like 2 huge asteroids taht are about to crash.. hopefully the one that survives shares its self interests with ours, and so far this was the us. good thing that throughout history innately it was so: nation that shares its own interests ends up in power. so far, democracy has proven to be the best system, allowing (more or less) everyone's self interests to be in practice. till then, fukuyama will have to wait.  (little note: this is not coming from an american, not one bit american)  lord, i write, i write and in the end i doubt i make sense.