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Then there the Pat Robertsons who pressure the President and congressmen and make public statements about overthrowing a sovereign nation that he doesn't like. That goes for both the current, like Iraq. And the future, like Venezuela. Also there is the Liberian thing where Robertson was running gold and diamond mines out of that country. When things started to go bad, he repeatedly used his influence to get, or at least try to get, the State Department and the President to back off of the Dictator of that nation, Charles Taylor.

People like Bin Laden do not have this kind of power to spread their influence.

Like I said, Robertson and Falwell never needed to command followers to blow themselves up. They were able to directly influence international and domestic policy in this nation. No fundamentalist clerics are in as good a position to spread their agenda than our own radical mullah's.