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2004-10-23 International-UN-NGOs

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Posted by .com 2004-10-23 12:46:32 AM|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I think the situation is a little bit closer to the old Far Side cartoon where the Crisis Clinic floats down the river towards the waterfall while its top floors are engulfed in flames...

Posted by Seafarious 2004-10-23 1:10:23 AM|| 2004-10-23 1:10:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Wed night we drove past a building that my wife pointed out said "Crisis Pregnancy Center" I said dear it's an abortion clinic. She said "OH! Thats why they have an armed guard out front."

When Israel has a fence up perhaps these stupid Paleos will get their heads out of their ass. Well one can hope. The UN help? Not likely.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-10-23 1:29:22 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2004-10-23 1:29:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I think the Middle East has been drifting toward Chaos for way to long. It's time to pass Chaos and go straight to Hell.

Posted by ed 2004-10-23 8:14:01 AM|| 2004-10-23 8:14:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 For once in history, not even the UN can be held responsible for the perpetual havoc being wrought in the Middle East. This cesspit of misery is so exclusively of Arab manufacture as to defy even the remotest attempts at laying blame elsewhere. So long as genocide, violent jihad, theocracy and intolerance reign supreme, all of the Middle East will continue to be a hellhole of human misery. No amount of nuanced discussion or political prestidigitation can ever mask the naked outright evil that Islam has spawned. And it will remain so until all Moslems firmly renouce their dreams of global domination or are simply obliterated, every single one, by a world grown long-tired of their psychotic atrocities.

Posted by Zenster 2004-10-23 12:15:48 PM|| 2004-10-23 12:15:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I like my coffee strong, Zen. That's pretty damned strong stuff you're serving. Melike. The truth is a bitch, sometimes, but it's obvious that the vast majority of the grief present in the ME and elsewhere, particularly where Islam exists or is trying to achieve dominanace, is due to Islam's tenets of hate and blame. Enough, already.

We (the West) have already met them more than halfway - fuck what their whining apologists say for pay or out of dhimmitude. The Israelis have done everything short of letting them win in their loudly declared wars of annihilation. Enough. Enough. Enough. They can either have their 1400 yr overdue reformation - or face the very modern swords of Free Men and Women - and cease to be.

Posted by .com 2004-10-23 12:30:33 PM|| 2004-10-23 12:30:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I like the Far Side cartoon where the two fish are standing on the table, looking at their fishbowl, which is on fire. One fish turns to the other and says, "Thank God we got out in time, but now we are doubly screwed!"

The ME has been the pit that it has been for a long time. It is tribal, it is kinship, it is haggling and deals. The big problem is that it is awash in money, and that money, the wealth of the industrialized world, is not being used very wisely for the benefit of all.

So we come to choices for our own security:
1. Drag them kicking and screaming into the modern world,
2. Take out the big troublemakers through the appropriate means,
3. Show them a better way,
4. Deny them their money by getting alternate sources of energy and let them rot on the vine.
5. Combinations of the above.

Nothing is easy, especially with "allies" stabbing you in the back. But one way or another, the ME must be cleaned up. One thing that we must do is to throw the monkey on the back to those that have been benefiting from the US military's heavy lifting all these years.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-10-23 1:24:05 PM|| 2004-10-23 1:24:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 They can either have their 1400 yr overdue reformation - or face the very modern swords of Free Men and Women - and cease to be.

Precisely, .com. The only amazing aspect of what you're saying is how this concept seems to go completely unnoticed by the majority of Muslims. With continued tacit or overt support of terrorism, all Islam is placing their collective neck in the noose. A few more atrocities will spring the trap door so they can twist gently in the breeze. I'll lay in some fine Champagne to open when that happens.

As to your post, AP. My only reply is "all of the above."

Posted by Zenster 2004-10-23 1:36:34 PM|| 2004-10-23 1:36:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I blame this on Mohammedanism, the Koran and incendiary preachers of Jihad. Today's Arab culture is the direct off spring of Koranic principles. Unfortunately for everyone on this planet, chaos, anarchism, nihilism, authoritarianism, all find happy homes in the Islam of today

Posted by dennisw 2004-10-23 2:06:33 PM|| 2004-10-23 2:06:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 A firm grasp of the arm. Check.
Eyes closed. Check.
Lips slightly parted. Check.
Kiss me. Kiss me now Jacques. Kiss me like you and I are the only two firey hearts in this cold, cold world.

Posted by ed 2004-10-23 2:17:11 PM|| 2004-10-23 2:17:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 .com, while your comments are usually good, they're exceptional today.

Posted by RWV 2004-10-23 2:23:07 PM|| 2004-10-23 2:23:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Sadly, when they commit the atrocities - innocents die. It's readily apparent the world's not ready for anything pre-emptive - even the most serious advocates have a personal threshold that must be met. And of those who can't contemplate pre-emption, most seem only vaguely aware that there is a real and identifiable agent that has created a problem. Sigh. So more will fall under the knives and RPG's of these vermin. I can only hope that it isn't necessary for most to lose someone they know and love personally before they get it. As things are, many still blame everyone but the actual perpetrators - as shown in the Dhimmidick ad of the woman who lost her husband on 9/11 and, instead of blaming bin Laden and Islamists, meanders through an amazing maze of illogic to blame Bush. Clinton, I would give a partial, but Bush? Heavy sigh.

Posted by Phitle Jearong2969 2004-10-23 2:26:45 PM|| 2004-10-23 2:26:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Oops, Phitle Jearong2969 (pretty nifty, Fred!) is me.

Thx, RWV - I think there is a higher % of deeper-than-avg, quite serious comments, today - we're all being lifted bodily, I think. I need that, heh, and prolly more than most, sigh. I know I've read several today which have made me stop cold and really think. Lol, I wish I was known for that! :-)

Posted by .com 2004-10-23 2:33:36 PM|| 2004-10-23 2:33:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Spittle Jearong more likely, PD ;-)

Posted by Frank G 2004-10-23 2:35:25 PM|| 2004-10-23 2:35:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 See? See what I mean, RWV? I try to go straight. I try to rise up to a higher plane of discourse. But they just drag me back down!
- Michael Corleone

Posted by .com 2004-10-23 2:41:08 PM|| 2004-10-23 2:41:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 back to the cheap-shot snide remark family, amigo...LOL

Posted by Frank G 2004-10-23 2:46:21 PM|| 2004-10-23 2:46:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Lol! Guilty, as charged. RWV had me feeling like I was improving in my posts... becoming better than I am - thanks for the bitch-slap of reality, Frank, lol! ROFL!!!

Posted by .com 2004-10-23 2:49:41 PM|| 2004-10-23 2:49:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Ya know, folks, we are all brilliant. But we do so love the bars and the gutters. We try to walk the straight and narrow, but the gutter is FUN!

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-10-23 3:19:08 PM|| 2004-10-23 3:19:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 UN bureaucracy makes a very good living by extorting money from industrialized countries for, supposed, humanitarian goals in third world. UNWRA is one of the best money-makers among these rackets. Now, itâs going to hell. Canât blame Kofi & Co for getting upset.

Posted by Anonymous6092 2004-10-23 3:31:19 PM|| 2004-10-23 3:31:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 .com - I'll take Door #2.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-10-23 7:36:16 PM|| 2004-10-23 7:36:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 We try to walk the straight and narrow, but the gutter is FUN!

As if!

However much we might like to occupy whatever hilarious aforementioned gutter, the terrorists have long ago stolen that from us. Gutters, sewers, waste processing plants ... terrorism be thy name.

Posted by Zenster 2004-10-23 8:14:20 PM|| 2004-10-23 8:14:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 .com you are absolutely right.

The ME is simply reaping what it has been sowing for the past 1400-odd years.

What the hell did you expect from a religion based on hatred, murder, rape, robbery, pedophilia, slavery and death?

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-10-23 8:40:29 PM|| 2004-10-23 8:40:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 thats paedophilla and you left out paederasty too.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-10-23 8:54:18 PM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2004-10-23 8:54:18 PM|| Front Page Top

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