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2006-08-22 Terror Networks

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Posted by Shung Phinetle2153 2006-08-22 02:10|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Sowell is spot on, as usual. Problem is, he's just one canary in the coal mine.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-08-22 08:51|| 2006-08-22 08:51|| Front Page Top

#2 No. The problem is that we don't need the warning of the canary, and those that do are not listening to him

Posted by trailing wife 2006-08-22 09:21|| 2006-08-22 09:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Containment/evolution should work with the NKs. Iran is another matter. The genocide statements by Ahmadinejad has served the West a pretext to force regime change in Iran.

Posted by Snease Shaiting3550 2006-08-22 11:27|| 2006-08-22 11:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Afterthought: the inter-generational threat is on the minds of our leaders. They will act soon. And they won't be dropping concrete-bombs.

Who remembers the Reagan era public diplomacy. Millions watched the government financed TV show, "Let Poland Be Poland." Tens of millions around the world, received copies of the slick government publication, "Soviet Military Power." The public needs more than sketchy CNN fluff on Iran. Sorry, President Bush, but nobody will ever refer to you as "The Great Communicator." You need to de-retire the Reagan' publicists, and let them profile the enemy. Ahmadinejad and the Ayatollahs need to die before the end of September.

Posted by Snease Shaiting3550 2006-08-22 11:37|| 2006-08-22 11:37|| Front Page Top

#5 "Ahmadinejad and the Ayatollahs need to die before the end of September."

Why before the end of September? Just curious.

Posted by Texas Redneck 2006-08-22 13:31|| 2006-08-22 13:31|| Front Page Top

#6 In case I don't get the chance to say it before the mushroom cloud rises over one of the world's kafir cities (thank you self-righteous head-up-your-ass proponents of appeasement and moral/social equivalence (yes, I'm talking the Democratic Party, Euroweenies, and ACLU)), bye-bye Boston, later London, adios Atlanta, hasta Austin, c'est la vie gay Paris, it's been real Rio, toodles Toledo, Cioa Moscow.

Posted by Hyper">Hyper 2006-08-22 13:31|| 2006-08-22 13:31|| Front Page Top

#7 The real, simple fact is that the MMs and the Islamofascists simply have no understanding of the world they are creating IMO.

Despite the bleatings on many sides I am convinced that Western Civilization will not fall.

But Western Civilization will not be the same after it does what it must to survive.

The "edge" will be harder, harsher, more inclined to slap down anything that might be considered "upstart" or "against the norm".

That's not necessarily a bad thing.

In order to progress, in order to bolster Western Civilization against the Barbarian Hordes that constantly pound on its gates, and in order to become prepared to confront anyone else out there" we might potentially meet one day, we must get hard, we must get bitter and callous, and we must stop acting out our fantasies that everyone "can just get along".

The fact is, some folks just can't "just get along".

The fact is, some folks just need killin'.

A long time ago in a long-lost couple of novels, a couple of authors said (paraphrased),

"First, we must become wolves. That means leaving behind our monkey ways, climbing down outta' the trees, and learning how to deal harshly with a universe that doesn't give a rip whether we live or die as a species. That means there are three basic rules we need to follow. Those rules are,"

"Rule 1 - Alien species (or civilizations) that we might encounter (now or) in the future are going to be the most powerful, most intelligent, most ruthless, most successful (civilizations) species (in) on their home (countries) worlds."

"Rule 2 - The survival of their (civilizations) species will be more important to them than the survival of our (civilizations) species is."

"Rule 3 - They will assume that Rules 1 and 2 apply to us (our civilizations/species) as well."

The fact is that in this war we simply have no other choice - we win or they do. If they do, we lose.

Simple choices really.

Survival as a culture, civilization, and species - or complete annihilation.

The end result is going to be a cold, hard, determined civilizations which will have left all kinds of moral equivalency and garbage in its wake and which will have earned a chance to look outwards towards the rest of the universe.

And I pity anyone lesser than that civilization that we run across...

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2006-08-22 20:19|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2006-08-22 20:19|| Front Page Top

#8 What Middle East fanatics want is the destruction and humiliation of the west.

Bravo - that's a point that seems to escape so many. If the stakes weren't so high- I'd find it amusing the way the liberals attempt to help them by repeating their lies on lebanon, palestine, Iraq, Iran etc. It's all about oil, Israel, poverty, etc. But then the fanatics just humiliate the liberals by showing how little they care for their "help".

They don't need the liberals help. They hate the liberals and intend to kill them. If they want to act like dhimmis - the fanatics will let them - but the liberals should understand that to the fanatics liberals are just dirty little infidels whose help they do not need or want.

Posted by 2b 2006-08-22 23:37|| 2006-08-22 23:37|| Front Page Top

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