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To: Babu

BACHMANN A DISAPPOINTMENT ON AFGHANISTAN

There were hopeful indications, suggestions, soupçons, that Michele Bachmann was an at least incipient dissenter from the Bush / Obama / neocon paradigm on nation-building and “democratizing” Muslim nations.
Alas, it was not to be. She tells a delighted Matthew Continetti at The Weekly Standard:

On Afghanistan, I firmly believe that we are at a point where we’ve got to stay the course, and we’ve got to finish the job. Reports coming out of Helmand right now are positive.... David Petraeus, who wrote the book on counterinsurgency and on the surge strategy, is successfully prosecuting the surge.
Now, President Obama has not told the story the way President Bush did. President Bush did let the country know where we were at, and I give him a lot of credit because when he was getting all sorts of invective pointed against him, he stood against the world for what he knew to be right in dealing with terrorism. And perhaps no other would have stood the way that he did. I give him great credit for that.

Now in Afghanistan, we are making great progress. We have to win southern Afghanistan, then we have to go on and win eastern Afghanistan. I believe that we will be victorious, and we’ll end it. I understand why people are frustrated. I completely understand. But I do trust General Petraeus in that effort and in what he is doing over there. And I think that they are doing what we need to do.

Bachmann apparently has no grasp, not even a tiny hint, of the essential hopelessness and insanity of what we have been doing there—sacrificing our men to build “trust” with our mortal enemies. Apparently the repeated mass murders of U.S. soldiers by their Afghan “allies” has not caused the slightest tremor of cognitive dissonance in the congresswoman’s comely head. And apparently she has never even thought about the fundamental questions asked the other day by Diana West:
Is Western-style nation-building in the Islamic Umma in any way a practical policy?
Are basic American concepts of governance compatible in any way with a culture based in religious and sexual supremacism?

Should Americans be dying for people who, for example, practice child marriage? Pederasty? To whom women are chattel? To whom corruption is as much a part of their lives as air? Whose allegiances, whose belief system, whose natural reflexes default, in the end, in ways subtle and not subtle, to the ways of jihad against infidels?

Could someone maybe arrange a meeting between Rep. Bachmann and Miss West?


6 posted on 06/25/2011 9:29:58 PM PDT by ventanax5
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To: ventanax5

Bachmann, bless her well intended soul, needs to bone up on some history. Once a Muslim group has gone from nominal to radical in its Mo Madness, virtually nothing short of annihilation or severe ignominy will stop it. Now, if she really is willing to be that ruthless in Afghanistan, if this Lutheran lady can call up the spirit of the Lutheran warriors of the old Nordic countries, there might be a chance of some progress. But she’ll have to be more devastating to radical Islamic groups than even Russia was able to be.


12 posted on 06/25/2011 9:39:45 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: ventanax5

Are you Lawrence Auster?

If not, your are stealing other people’s writing and claiming it as your own.

I’ve been seeing a lot of this lately here on FR, not even bothering with quotes or credit where credit is due.

http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/019707.html

If you ARE Lawrence Auster, then well said..


47 posted on 06/26/2011 12:31:05 AM PDT by wolficatZ (Somebody once wrote "Revenge is a dish that has to be eaten cold".)
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