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Mark Steyn: The Coalition of the Unwilling
Steyn Online ^ | 09/13/2014 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 09/13/2014 4:55:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

The more I think of it even Biden would do a better job than “The Clown.”


61 posted on 09/14/2014 9:58:03 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

Indeed. Thank you for the correction.


62 posted on 09/14/2014 10:03:07 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: TheOldLady

It was not meant as a correction but as a variant of what you stated. “O Lucifer Star of the Morning...”


63 posted on 09/14/2014 10:08:27 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: taxcontrol
Obama was not and is not able to accomplish what Bush did when he was President

And MY point was that we aren't going to stop losing and start winning until we repudiate the notion that our military activities after 9/11 (rapid overthrow of the Taliban by SOF excepted) were some kind of success. The Bush choice to respond to the Saudi-Pakistani attack on 9/11 by attacking Iraq and Afghanistan was pathetic and it has led to many of the problems we face today, including the enemy in Raqqa and the enemy on Pennsylvania Avenue.

64 posted on 09/14/2014 10:23:58 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: billorites

I almost feel bad for President Obama to see him subjected to such scorn and ridicule.....He has been in the foreign press for six years now. We just don’t hear about it. The French (of all governments) have repeatedly said “Don’t take this guy seriously and don’t trust him.” They have known who is running him.


65 posted on 09/14/2014 10:38:25 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: DaveA37

it will only take a commander in chief with the intestinal fortitude to wipe ISIS off the face of the earth in short order....ISLAM off the face of the Earth.


66 posted on 09/14/2014 10:45:20 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Fungi

bump


67 posted on 09/14/2014 11:01:01 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: SeekAndFind

From the article:

What about American allies closer to the action?

There is a disinclination to believe his promises, said Mustafa Alani of the Gulf Research Center in Dubai.

“We have reached a low point of trust in this administration,” he said. “We think in a time of crisis Mr. Obama will walk away from everyone if it means saving his own skin.”

Different countries are suspicious of the United States for different reasons, but all feel betrayed in some way by recent U.S. policies, said Salman Shaikh of the Brookings Doha Institute in Qatar.


68 posted on 09/14/2014 12:13:27 PM PDT by 2111USMC (Aim Small Miss Small)
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To: Jim Noble
""Bush-style" = defeat."

OK. Got me there.

What I meant was a ground invasion. Or do you think we could do it with selective bombing?


70 posted on 09/14/2014 4:36:05 PM PDT by garjog (Obama: bringing joy to the hearts of Terrorists everywhere.)
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To: El Zoro

I agree totally that he is a straw man and would be totally incompetent IF he were actually trying to be a good president. I say that the main problem is not incompetence because he was PUT IN PLACE to do anything BUT be a good president. If he had been a good president in his first term he would NOT have gotten a second term.


71 posted on 09/14/2014 5:13:29 PM PDT by RipSawyer (OPM is the religion of the sheeple.)
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To: garjog
Or do you think we could do it with selective bombing?

Do what?

72 posted on 09/14/2014 7:05:54 PM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

Thank you anyway. ;-) I do prefer your version.


73 posted on 09/15/2014 7:42:59 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: Jim Noble; NFHale
The day after those towers fell the United States had every right to form an expeditionary force to conquer Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, to root out Wahabism/Deobandism once and for all. If the American flag flew over Islamabad and Riyadh by the Fall of 2004, there would be no "Obama" and there would be no ISIS.

great rant Jim...

personally pisses me off every 9-11 to see the 'wonderful' projection of light into the NY sky...

13 friggen yrs later and all we have is a giant hole in the ground and some spotlights...

9-12-01 shouldve seen tac nukes over mecca and just a simple dare for the next contestant to step forward for their prize...

74 posted on 09/15/2014 9:51:27 PM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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To: Lorianne

Amen to that! Nobody has the guts to say what really needs to be done:

Bring our troops & the Christians over there back to the US
Put troops on our own borders
Ban Islam as being incompatible with a free society
Deport all Muslims
Let them kill each other off over there

Nobody gets on a plane or enters a civilized country unless they will pet the pig, at least until Muslim countries show they are willing to join the 21st century. How about a Christian book store in Riyadh?

Bush Senior should never have taken us into the first Gulf War. The Saudis thanked us by giving us the 9/11 attack. There are no “good guys” over there.


75 posted on 09/19/2014 8:57:58 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Amen


76 posted on 09/19/2014 9:05:36 PM PDT by 3boysdad (The very elect.)
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