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2004-02-25

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2004-02-25 00:01|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Saw John Podherotz at his book signing on Broadway/82nd, Upper West Side (Manhattan) -- despite the heckling of who I assume was a Democratic plant, the C-SPAN-filmed event went okay, and he pointed out that Iraq is not an isolated case. He did not elaborate on a Saddam-al-Qaeda connection, but noted that the "international community" is a crock when our enemies are onboard ...

Posted by Lu Baihu 2004-2-25 12:37:00 AM|| [http://edwardyee.fanworks.net] 2004-2-25 12:37:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Don't close the borders. We want them coming in where we have the advantage.

Restrict the flow of ~~terrorist wannabees~~ Syrian visitors - to a point where we can track them. And follow them to the "nest". Then kill the whole rats nest.

Sounds like a plan to me.

Posted by OldSpook 2004-2-25 12:45:40 AM|| 2004-2-25 12:45:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Only problem, Spook, is that it continues to disrupt life for the Iraqis. The "flypaper" strategy was fine last year, but now we have to transition the Iraqis to running their own affairs (more or less). Continued infiltration of dumb jihadis makes that more difficult. I'd prefer we get the Iraqi Border Patrol up to speed, both in quality and quantity, and start nailing the infiltrators at the border.

Posted by Steve White 2004-2-25 1:30:20 AM|| 2004-2-25 1:30:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Fred aced ya. :-)

Posted by Steve White 2004-2-25 2:06:54 AM|| 2004-2-25 2:06:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 I suck, please delete.

Posted by Dan Darling 2004-2-25 2:10:10 AM|| [http://www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com] 2004-2-25 2:10:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 This is the problem when allies go to war with a common enemy in Iran, Iraq and Syria -- but knock off only the Iraqi regime. Why is the Ayatollah still breathing free? Why is Bashir al-Assad not hopping from spiderhole to spiderhole like a rabbit? Thank God the Allies did not fight WWII piecemeal: "We will knock off Italy -- but for Germany and Japan we shall threaten economic sanctions, apply diplomatic pressure and depend on the League of Nations for disarmament and pacification," according to FDR. Yeah..., that would have worked.

Posted by Garrison 2004-2-25 5:14:11 AM|| 2004-2-25 5:14:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Garrison - hmmmm....interesting thought.

Posted by B 2004-2-25 9:55:48 AM|| 2004-2-25 9:55:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Garrison - Hey, I'm there, bubba. I have a few suggestions along this line I haven't posted before, cuz I'm so shy 'n retiring... Thx for posting - 'tis definitely a step in the right direction. Methinks Dubya is there, too, just hamstrung by the timeline. '->

Posted by .com 2004-2-25 3:19:00 PM|| 2004-2-25 3:19:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 The timeline being the November election .com?

I'm assuming that if GWB wins (and I really hope he does), we can expect truly momentous changes in the ME, starting with toppling the Mullahs and finishing with annexing that 40km in Eastern Saudi Arabia?

That's what I'm hoping for anyhow.

Posted by Tony (UK) 2004-2-25 5:42:29 PM|| 2004-2-25 5:42:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Tony(UK) - That would float my boat quite nicely! If we added in the removal of the drug biz, by whatever means it takes - and I have to favor some variety of legalization, given the lousy WoD record - well, then they'd be bottled up rather nicely in the pig styes they've created. Rather hard to flit around the world doing jihadi deeds of derring-do without the merc-money, y'know? Dunno which would be more fitting at that point: letting them stew / wallow or whacking them in-place... ;-)

Posted by .com 2004-2-25 6:08:30 PM|| 2004-2-25 6:08:30 PM|| Front Page Top

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