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2007-05-03 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Dave D. 2007-05-03 08:14|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Woth reading. Hansen makes a lot of sense.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-05-03 11:52|| 2007-05-03 11:52|| Front Page Top

#2 I particularly liked this:

Weve suffered through the distortions of Michael Moore and know that Cindy Sheehan once thanked President Bush for meeting with her. Weve heard that the US military is akin to Saddam, Nazis, Pol Pot, or Stalin from the likes of Sens. Durbin and Kennedy, that America is a pariah from Sen. Kerry, that the war is lost from Sen. Reid and Howard Dean, and about everything imaginable from poor Sen. Biden.

Ouch. That's gotta hurt.

Posted by xbalanke 2007-05-03 13:24|| 2007-05-03 13:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Perhaps with Gulf oil money, they can one day forget Israel, create a just society, foster a vibrant, non-corrupt economy, and then with confidence negotiate with Israel about borders. But until then, there is no reason to have relations with this government or its populace.

Its mothers milk is envy and jealousy that a displaced decimated people was placed down beside them in rock and scrub, and sixty years later built a humane, prosperous society that is a daily reminder to them that what they dostatism, gender apartheid, tribalism, feuding, religious intolerance, corruption, autocracy, polygamy, honor killings, etc.lead to the very opposite sort of society in which nothing is invented, no discovery is found, no security or prosperity is achieved, and hand-outs are demanded but never appreciated.

Few better, or more biting, appraisals have ever been made regarding that massive collection of psychotic murderous ingrates known to us as the Palestinians.

For years Arab intellectuals demanded from the West some concern for human rights, and a cessation of business as usual with their dictatorial strongmen. But post 2003 we are learning that such posturing was, well, posturing, and most of these hothouse plants are more angry at the democratization efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq than they are at their own autocrats. An unspoken truth in the post 9/11 climate is that Arab reformers have zero credibility. Most live in Europe and the United States (including members of the families of the Pakistani, Syrian, Lebanese, and Saudi autocrats and extremists). Most are far more critical of western governments that gave them refuge and a new life than they are of the illiberal regimes that drove them out.

So, we already know that moderate Muslims are of little use in fighting terrorism. Now it appears that even reformists may not be of much more worth. What is the message here? Is anyone else sensing a pattern? It seems as if Islam, as a whole, is simply of no use to the civilized world. As .com has so succinctly inquired, what redeeming features does Islam have? Between international terrorism, genocide and sharia law, the answer, apparently, is "none".

Without oil and nukes, the Arab and Iranian Middle East has no hold on the world, no more than does Paraguay or the Ivory Coast or Bulgaria or Laos.

There's not much we can do about the MME (Muslim Middle East) having so much oil, save reducing our consumption of it. However, there is something we can do about them ever obtaining nuclear weapons. Starting with the neutralization of Iran. That, today and tomorrow, will remain job #1 until we have rendered Iran an also-ran in world history.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-05-03 15:50|| 2007-05-03 15:50|| Front Page Top

#4 "What is the message here? Is anyone else sensing a pattern?"

Yep. There's "something about Islam."

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2007-05-03 18:47|| 2007-05-03 18:47|| Front Page Top

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