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2007-09-30 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-09-30 14:55|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Jerry Pournelle has been saying the neo-cons have Jacobin views about the benefits of democracy.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-09-30 15:17|| 2007-09-30 15:17|| Front Page Top

#2 He added that any strike should be followed by an attempt to remove the "source of the problem", Mr Ahmadinejad. "If we were to strike Iran it should be accompanied by an effort at regime change ..."

That odd squeaking sound you hear in the background is Ahmadinejad and the Iranian mullahs all puckering up at once.

The US once had the capability to engineer the clandestine overthrow of governments. I wish we could get it back.

If the West has any intention of overcoming global terrorism, this will necessarily change. Targeted killings of Islam's clerical, academic and financial elite are the first step in this process. Any and every nation that incorporates shari'a law in their legal system must undergo regime change. Theocratic Islam cannot be allowed to exist on earth.

Responding after they're used is unacceptable.

This is the bottom line. The consequences of inaction are not just unacceptable, they are intolerable.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-30 15:44|| 2007-09-30 15:44|| Front Page Top

#3 "They [neocons] have somewhat - I would say excessively - Wilsonian views about the benefits of democracy."

Not true. Wilson tried to prevent the Germans from attacking us via letters and diplomacy. The German U-Boats hit our fleets any way. Wilson then had to set up a war machine, implemented the income tax, the war industries board, etc., and sent our troops to war.

Conservatives today know that the same approach is too cumbersom. That we must stop war before it begins with pre-emptive strikes on those who are gearing up to strike us. If we go the route of Wilson and today's Democrats, in ten years we will be in another major war, with tens of thousands of our children dieing on battle fields again.

Posted by Lampedusa Glagum1736 2007-09-30 15:52|| 2007-09-30 15:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Actually, if some have jacobin views, it is neo-coms (Her Thighness Hitlary would be a good example), not neo-cons.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-09-30 18:37|| http://www.twobyfour.info]">[http://www.twobyfour.info] 2007-09-30 18:37|| Front Page Top

#5 "Targetted killings..." > unless Amer Hiroshima or new 9-11's, etc is imminent, ITS STILL TRUE THAT MOST MAINSTREAM AMERS ARE NOT READY OR WILLING TO ACCEPT SUCH ACTIONS BY USA REGARDLESS OF THE MERITS, OURS OR AS PER AMERICA'S ENEMIES.
In any case, any covert attempt to remove/eliminate Moud must also remove Radical Mullahs aligned wid him. *ISRAEL > KHAMEINI IS THE POWER = BIG CAMEL BEHIND MOUD. IRAN > any attack by ISrael or the USA invites Iranian "eyef-r an eye" retaliation, either by National military response andor by Terror agz US-Allied interests anywhere in the world, including inside the USA.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-09-30 20:46|| 2007-09-30 20:46|| Front Page Top

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