Bernard Lewis bump.
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What's wrong with "Respect our freedom or we destroy you"?
Vigorous reaction, i.e. Let's Roll, was the right move. Now follow through.
Stupendous piece by the great Bernard Lewis.
Military Hones a New Strategy on Insurgency
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Great historical analysis, imho.
Thanks.
A strange analysis in that it starts with Egypt under Napoleon and neglects Egypt shortly thereafter under Muhammad Ali. While not an Egyptian, Ali was certainly a moderniser who introduced European fighting methods and industrial economic/innovations successfully to Egypt. The threat he wound up posing to the Ottoman empire (pleasantly regarded already as the sick man of Europe by her European rivals) was such that the Europeans combined to shut him down rather than risk the Ottoman empire being taken over by a more vigorous, innovative creation.
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Praise GOD that...
President BUSH has promised...
FREEDOM's Return to:
Communist Vietnam
Communist North Korea
Communist Cuba
as well as
FREEDOM's Arrival to:
All the Countries of the Middle East
...as America's own best self-defense against future terrorist attacks at home.
Even over the massive objections of our enemy within in Time of War with our own FREEDOM now directly at stake.
Signed:.."ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer
Veteran-1st Major Battles for FREEDOM of the Vietnam War 1965-66
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection.htm
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Imprimus Bump!
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
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