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10.26.2001 The Last Best Killers on Earth Listen Forums: Does our culture breed better killers?   America is the last superpower standing, and it's not because we have an environmental advantage, and it's not because we are smarter or morally superior or have better high-tech toys. Military historian Victor Davis Hanson says that battle is the ultimate expression of our cultural values, and Western culture turns out the best killers on the planet. Will the West's knack for carnage win the War on Terrorism? Guest: Victor Davis Hanson, Professor of Classics at California State University at Fresno, Author of "Culture and Carnage." Read articles by Victor Davis Hanson: If This Be War Cognitive Dissonance What Are We Made Of? Cornered Also: The Times of London's Political Editor Philip Webster and disturbing information that bin Laden may have access to nuclear materials. Listen Related Articles by Philip Webster: • Nuclear safety of world is at stake, Blair tells troops • Bin Laden's nuclear threat

Should bombing be suspended during Ramadan? Let us know in the forums. Ramadan Listen U.S. officials have said that the military campaign in Afghanistan will continue during Ramadan, a holy month of fasting for Muslims around the world that begins mid-November. But will continued bombing during this holy month spark backlash across the Muslim world, strengthening bin Laden's claim that this is a war against Christians and Jews? Guest: Ebrahim Moosa, Professor of religion and co-director of the Center for the Study of Muslim Networks at Duke University. The Pentagon seeks your input on the war on terrorism. Click here.