[Archie Bunker on steroids]

Amazing, the Leftys are prepared to strengthen a group of radicals for their own near term gains. In the long run...they will cut all of our throats.

[knarf]

Whew!

[swilhelm73]

Well overall he makes some good points;

Instead, Islamist versions of totalitarianism are spreading with remarkable rapidity, confident that they will in short order triumph over the decadent West.

just isn't backed up by fact. The Islamists have had one success since 9/11 - namely Spain. While they have forced the cowardly Spanish to leave the fight, that has to be balanced against losing Afghanistan as their primary base of operation, losing Iraq as a source of funding and potentially WMDs, and frankly facing annhiliation - and oh yes the almost certain death of their charismatic leader Osama.

While there should remain the worry the left will succeed in its goal to use the terrorists for domestic political gain, so far it is really only a worry as Bush and co have outplayed them to this point.

[an amused spectator]

And then there's my all-time favorite:

Moon-Rock Cult Beaten By Misunderestimated Foe

[an amused spectator]

And maybe they are right. When we use trivial issues to undermine our leaders in the midst of war, when we attack them not merely for their failures, but even for their successes, when we aid and abet a terrorist enemy whose only real hope is to see us discouraged enough to throw away our victories, we may indeed find ourselves beaten by a foe that far too many of us still underestimate.

This is an excellent point, and there is an even troubling thought that has occurred to me:

In the event of a Kerry victory, could you in good conscience advise your children to enlist in a miltary which will surely be betrayed by the American Left, scorned and used as dogs by the Kerrys and Hillarys of America?

[okie01]

To me, the most interesting aspect of Prof. Marmorstein's column is that, by analogy, he effectively takes Bush's detractors to task for their divisiveness in the face of the enemy.

And that the Aberdeen American-News, Li'l Tommy Daschle's hometown newspaper, chose to publish it.

The message is rather pointed...

[Honorary Serb]

In AD 627, the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius won a great victory over the Persians at Nineveh...

The people we call "Byzantines" never called themselves by that name, nor did others call them so. They, the legitimate extension of the Roman Empire, called themselves Romans, or in their own Greek language, Romaioi. The term "Byzantine" was coined by 19th century British intellectuals who downgraded or ignored the contribution of the Romaic state (and its offshoots, such as mediaval Serbia) to world civilization. (In fact, much of the transmission of classical civilization to the West when it emerged from the early Middle Ages toward the Renaissance came from the Romaioi, not just from islam).

The 19th century intellectuals who gave us the term "Byzantine" were the Orthodox Christian-bashers of their day!!!! Their unworthy and enfeebled successors are the professional Serb-hating and Orthodox-bashing "human rightsers", who are GREAT CONTRIBUTORS to the process of in-fighting and degradation of American and West European civilization that this article discusses. They are also of course islamoNazi enablers and shills.

Ironically, the "human rightser"-inspired movement for "gay rights" and feminazi revisionism in "mainline" churches is so ruining them that many "mainline" Christians are investigating Orthodoxy. Quite a few of them have converted, and more are expected to do so in the coming years. Then the "human rightsers" can bash these new Orthodox Christians along with all the others, if they dare!!!

[justshutupandtakeit]

I wouldn't say it has expanded geographically much lately.
But it hasn't shrunk much in the last few hundred years.

[Cacique]

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