text: commies and terrorists? are they the same, but in different time periods.? in my belief the scare of commies taking over the world like in a donomio effect, if one country falls they all will, that still stands true today but the commie scarce was ended as the berlin war was torn down and the break up of the u.s.s.r which is now russia, and the fact that nuclear war was never going to happen unless provoke by either the u.s. or the soviet union. my point is this that terrorism is a major scarce in american today, yes there is terrorist in the untied states like back then there were commies living in the states, so do you believe terrorism is the modern today for "commies" , where they choose to die before independence or the belief in christianity? yes and no.  there has been a 'west vs. islam' battle going on for well over a thousand years predating even the crusades.  the current 'war on terror' is really a return to this ancient battle of cultures.  the only time that this was not in the forefront was the 80 some-odd years of fighting against communism.  i pretty much agree with you and have been saying this to people since i watched the towers come down from my office in manhattan.