Posted on 01/30/2006 11:21:14 AM PST by Venator
Would anyone living outside Americas coastal enclaves of leftism actually believe that any major American newspaper would run an editorial arguing that we ought to be accepting Osama bin Ladens recent truce offer? Remarkable, isnt it?
But we can top that. Would you also believe that the editorialist, one John Arquilla (a man with these kinds of views) is employed by the Defense Department as a professor of Defense Analysis, no less (in his case, clearly: Surrender Analysis), at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Arquilla is additionally a senior consultant for the RAND Corporation, and an advisor to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld(!).
(Excerpt) Read more at neveryetmelted.com ...
Truce witha terrorist?
LOL!
What a coward to even suggest it.
No stones there ... .
I believe it is a fundamental principle of jihad that once jihad has been declared that it is a major "sin" to make peace with the enemy. That is, unless one makes peace for the express purpose of regrouping and regaining strength to continue jihad until the enemy is vanquished.
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