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2006-05-15 Down Under

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-05-15 04:40|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "One side is at war, terrorist, military, cultural, religious, subversive, demographic,... while the other pretends it's not."

It's only marginally better here in the US. Our liberal establishment (Democratic Party, the media, and the academics) have been keeping up a constant drumbeat of anti-war, anti-Administration hysteria for nearly four years, and that has begun to take its toll.

Add to that the Administration's general ineptness at building and maintaining public support for the war and its failure to help Americans achieve anything more than a rudimentary understanding of the "big picture."

Top it all off with Bush's witless twaddle about Islam being a "Religion of Peace," and you have the inevitable result: more and more with each passing month, the American public just wants the whole war to go away. They are tired of the constant onslaught of daily bad news; they see no point to what we're doing in Iraq; and they see little progress-- only casualties (never mind that during three years in Iraq we've lost about as many people as we lose every three weeks on our nation's highways).

And in the wake of disinformation, ignorance and fatique, follow denial and chowderheaded wishful thinking: Islam is not the enemy; Muslims are just like those nice Presbyterians next door; if we're nice to them and show them how tolerant and inclusive we are they'll reciprocate in kind; and Iran just wants us to stop being so mean to them; and so what if they get The Bomb, anyway? Other countries have it, so why shouldn't they?

The atrocity on 9/11 was the direct result of a quarter-century of flaccid, limp-wristed American response to Islamic aggression-- most notably, our ignominious bug-outs from Beirut after the Marine barracks suicide-bombing, and then Mogadishu in the "Blackhawk Down" episode. Inevitably, Osama bin Laden-- along with much of the rest of the world-- became convinced America is soft, corrupt, effete, and frivolous; and that while we command the most powerful military force the world has ever known, we lack the political will to have it actually do anything of any significant difficulty or duration.

Certainly, OBL committed a titanic blunder by staging his spectacular 9/11 attack early in the administration of a Republican president from the "cowboy" state of Texas; that was a truly stupid move.

But I fear that in the long run, over the next couple of years we are likely to prove the Bin Laden Maxim right: bleed the Americans enough, and they WILL eventually give up and go slinking home with their tails between their legs.

Because if the Democrats ever regain control, they will, they will do just that; they've said so. Only they call it "responsible redeployment."

Feh.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2006-05-15 06:50|| 2006-05-15 06:50|| Front Page Top

#2 the Australian Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (journo's union) just put out a booklet on press freedom in Australia, decrying the attacks on press freedom by....

governement and big business!!

in five pages of dribble not one mention of the Mohammed cartoons.

A disgusting example of where journalists and editors censored themselves for fear of offending a minority.

and lets not forget the cartoons were not offensive to secular, reasonable muslims or to any non-muslim. they were not hideous porn or bloodied murder victim photos but simple line drawings.

and let's also not forget they were NEWSWORTHY in fact the riots 'caused' by them were headlining every night for a week.

people had a right to know what was provoking such anger and judge for themselves whether it was warranted.

just disgusting. the media is the enemy

Posted by anon1 2006-05-15 10:15|| 2006-05-15 10:15|| Front Page Top

#3 The Aussies will only wise up when they have their own 9/11. Well, maybe not even then.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-05-15 11:48|| 2006-05-15 11:48|| Front Page Top

#4 yeah. but just try publishing a comic book about the profit (sic) mohammed.

Posted by PlanetDan">PlanetDan 2006-05-15 11:53|| 2006-05-15 11:53|| Front Page Top

#5 yeah. but just try publishing a comic book about the profit (sic) mohammed.

The Islam Comic Book

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-05-15 12:50|| 2006-05-15 12:50|| Front Page Top

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