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2006-10-30 Olde Tyme Religion
Islam, Terror and the Second Nuclear Age
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Posted by Snomosing Spaque1522 2006-10-30 13:32|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Perhaps the promotion of democracy in the region, pursued consistently by the United States over the long term, might someday allow the rise of leaders whose Islamism is tempered by the need to satisfy their constituents’ domestic needs — and who eschew anti-Americanism as wasteful and misguided. Iraq was the test case of whether this change could occur in the short term. But we failed to make the experiment work and gave Iraq’s Islamist politicians, Shiite and Sunni alike, ample grounds to continue the anti-American rhetoric that comes so easily to them. In the wake of our tragic mismanagement of Iraq, we are certainly a generation or more from any such unlinking of Islamism and anti-Americanism, if it is to occur at all. And Islamism itself shows no signs of being on the wane as a social or political force.

That means that the best we can hope for in nuclear Islamic states in the near term is a rational dictator like Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, who sees his bread buttered on the side of an alliance with the West. Such rulers can be very strong and can bring stability, but we also know that their rule (or reign) promotes Islamist opposition, with its often violent overtones. When such rulers die or otherwise fall from power, the Islamists will be poised to use the international power conferred by nuclear weapons to pursue their own ends — ends for now overwhelmingly likely to be anti-American.

And so he ends on a defeatist note: Iraq is failure, past tense.

I thought I had set my nick in the post, guess it didn't stick through the preview.
Posted by KBK 2006-10-30 14:19||   2006-10-30 14:19|| Front Page Top

#2 I've found that if you don't have a cookie from posting a comment, it will not set / create a cookie when you submit an article. Gotta post a comment to re-establish your cookie first.
Posted by .com 2006-10-30 14:24||   2006-10-30 14:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Ah, that sounds right. I know I overtyped the nym but it didn't stick. And though I just posted a comment as KBK this poster wants to use Gratle Ebbique1006. Hm. My rantburg.com:rbname cookie is KBK. Hm.
Posted by KBK 2006-10-30 14:32||   2006-10-30 14:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Really? You've (now) got a cookie but the posting page isn't using it? That's behavior I haven't seen.
Posted by .com 2006-10-30 14:35||   2006-10-30 14:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Can't one just type in the desired nym replacing the kewl anonymizer-generated one in the bottom left hand box?
Posted by trailing wife 2006-10-30 14:38||   2006-10-30 14:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Never mind. Reality seems to have overtaken my slow typing of ignorant theory, darn it!
Posted by trailing wife 2006-10-30 14:40||   2006-10-30 14:40|| Front Page Top

#7 
Redacted by moderator. Comments may be redacted for trolling, violation of standards of good manners, or plain stupidity. Please correct the condition that applies and try again. Contents may be viewed in the sinktrap. Further violations may result in banning.
Posted by Enlightenment">Enlightenment  2006-10-30 21:53||   2006-10-30 21:53|| Front Page Top

#8 Fuck off, moron.
Posted by .com 2006-10-30 21:57||   2006-10-30 21:57|| Front Page Top

#9 Al Quada stooge just posted as "enligtenment".

Not clear why as the Enligtenment comes after the Reformation something that the Death Cult call ISLAM has never in its submission experienced.

And yes Enligtenment a "Q" requires as "u" to follow it. Islam is just to barbarbian to honor another language's rules.
Posted by 3dc 2006-10-30 21:57||   2006-10-30 21:57|| Front Page Top

#10 Happy Halloween, Enlightenment.
Hope you get lots of candy...
Posted by tu3031 2006-10-30 21:59||   2006-10-30 21:59|| Front Page Top

#11 Too bad our driveby isn't enlightened enough to properly format a copy/paste job. Money well spent mom and dad.
Posted by ed 2006-10-30 23:04||   2006-10-30 23:04|| Front Page Top

#12 
I'm tired of idiots. Dominican idiots, Canadian idiots, idiots whose only contribution to RB is 'kill them all'. And now a conspiracy idiot from the District Of Columbia.

You're redacted. Buh-bye.


Posted by Pappy 2006-10-30 23:27||   2006-10-30 23:27|| Front Page Top

#13 And now a conspiracy idiot from the District Of Columbia.

Hope Mrs. Pelosi doesn't get too pissed about being sinktrapped...
Posted by tu3031 2006-10-30 23:30||   2006-10-30 23:30|| Front Page Top

#14 Off-topic or abusive comments deleted]
Posted by Enlightenment 2006-10-30 21:53||   2006-10-30 21:53|| Front Page Top

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