It's great to be here.We'll name our new military airportafter your most famous son,the great mathematicianMuhammad al-Khwarizmi,who lived in the ninth centuryof the Christian era --sorry, the Common Era.We'll build Firebase Algorithm,a word derived from his last name.The book he wrote, Kitab Al-Jabr,christened the field of algebra.Whoops! We should have saidAl-Jabr was its basis.We'll add a lot more bases.Your social problems might multiplyas we search for X, then Y, then Z,the unknown quantities,the solutions to our problem,but we're grateful for your support,glad that al-Khwarizmideveloped the “calculus of two errors.”It will help us differentiateterror from infinite justice --make that “enduring freedom.”We give thanks that al-Khwarizmilaunched the decimal system,so we can keep easy body counts,flash results on television,and when the Great Game endspost the scores in Arabic numerals:Muslims, zero. Christians, zero.Civilization, zero. вот кароч