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2006-11-25 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Steve White 2006-11-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [15 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Now the UN must find a way to make the rule of law real.

Wotta load. Methinks David never goes anywhere without his industrial-strength rose-colored glasses...

Posted by PBMcL 2006-11-25 01:11|| 2006-11-25 01:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Now the UN must find a way to make the rule of law real.

I'll bet David's looking forward to seeing Santa in a few weeks...

Posted by tu3031 2006-11-25 01:14|| 2006-11-25 01:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Apparently his sympathy meter works *way* better than mine.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-11-25 01:21|| 2006-11-25 01:21|| Front Page Top

#4 David Ignatius, TRANZI, moron, writer.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-11-25 02:35|| www.sockpuppetofdoom.com]">[www.sockpuppetofdoom.com] 2006-11-25 02:35|| Front Page Top

#5 The so-called "prophet" of the Arabs, participated in 59 separate wars, bandit operations, sieges, and massacres. He also kidnapped a fellow tribesman, for ransom, and once raped a woman while her murdered husband's blood was on his clothes. Arab Muslims can be expected to emulate their racial hero.

Pity the Europeans who are importing by the million, these dregs of humanity.

Posted by Sneaze Shaiting3550 2006-11-25 02:37|| 2006-11-25 02:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Now the UN must find a way to make the rule of law real

Posted by gorb 2006-11-25 04:24|| 2006-11-25 04:24|| Front Page Top

#7 Those who imagined they could stop the assassins' little guns with their big guns - the United States and Israel come to mind - have been undone by the howling gale of violence. In trying to fight the killers, they began to make their own arguments for assassination and torture. That should have been a sign that something had gone wrong.

Puhleeze ... this is the old "fighting the terrorists on their level will make you into terrorists" horseradish. What our "own arguments for assassination and torture" prove is merely that the level of depravity and thuggery we have encountered goes well beyond the capabilities of those normally civilized tools we tend to apply. If Medieval is called for, Medieval is what they'll get, with a few technological updates thrown in at no extra charge.

The Middle East needs the rule of law - not an order preached by outsiders but one demanded by Arabs who will not tolerate more of this killing. Any leader or nation who aspires to play a constructive role in the region's future must embrace this idea of legal accountability.

None of which have any Arabs shown the slightest inclination for putting in place. It defeats their only known methods of achieving success, namely, corruption, graft, bribery, venality and a rapacity normally matched only by cold-blooded reptiles.

If once upon a time I did manage to Pity the Arab nation, that was something I scraped off the bottom of my shoe before entering the real world.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-11-25 05:14|| 2006-11-25 05:14|| Front Page Top

#8 And I know just law that works with Arabs.

Posted by Timur Lang 2006-11-25 09:02|| 2006-11-25 09:02|| Front Page Top

#9 The same doof who proclaimed that Saudi Arabia had the answer to Iraq's problems?

Posted by Pappy 2006-11-25 10:57|| 2006-11-25 10:57|| Front Page Top

#10 Pity the Europeans who are importing by the million, these dregs of humanity.

How about some pity for us as well. We seem to importing a bunch of these same dregs.

Posted by Mick Dundee 2006-11-25 11:00|| 2006-11-25 11:00|| Front Page Top

#11 "except the rule of law."

The strategy of militant Islam is to create anarchy by near-random killing and destruction. The unpredictability of the destruction is a 'force multiplier' - a little destruction goes a long way in creating the perception of helplessness of the authorities to effectively maintain order.
The common people (sheeple) cannot handle chaos, so Sharia law becomes acceptable as the only percieved alternative to no law at all. I would contend the establishment of fascist governments throughout history and geography is based on this same human characteristic ('At least he (Mussolini) made the trains run on time'.) That the rule of law is Sharia and the fascists are theocrats is all that distinguishes the current conflicts from so many others in the past.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2006-11-25 12:14|| 2006-11-25 12:14|| Front Page Top

#12 Perhaps David Ignatious needs to read some 107 words of wisdom from Winston Churchill instead of wringing his hands:

"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries!
Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as
hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The
effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly
systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of
property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A
degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the
next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every
woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a
child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of
slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among
men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence
of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being
moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has
already spread throughout Central Africa , raising fearless warriors at
every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong
arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the
civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of
ancient Rome ."

Sir Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages
248-50,
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899).

Posted by Phineter Thraviger 2006-11-25 13:53|| 2006-11-25 13:53|| Front Page Top

#13
Now the UN must find a way to make the rule of law real

I favor the Golden Rule.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-11-25 22:40|| 2006-11-25 22:40|| Front Page Top

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