Posted on 07/30/2008 4:27:52 PM PDT by rightwinghour
This actually has a long cultural history. The hassassin employed a technique of recruiting new, young members by starting in mosques, bringing in very young boys and keeping them on opiates, such as hashish through fervent religious teaching. When they felt they where ready, they would drug out the young boys and take them away to a city in the North Eastern Arabian mountains where they would meet the infamous 'old man in the mountain'. He showed them a ploy, a false heaven filled with young women (all kidnapped), fountains, fruit trees, etc, that they would 'gain' if they died for Islam, of course, in the name of the hassassin cause dejour. For a young boy from utter poverty living in Bedouin Arabian desert clans, this would seem like the ultimate paradise and they would gladly give their life.
Very little has changed. The 'old man in the mountain' has been replaced by Bin Ladin and various other Islamic cultists, but the result is the same. Fanatics with their cause take feeble minded individuals, dope them up with religious extremism (even if they don't use drugs any more), and give them a higher purpose.
Anyone who thinks it is because 'we are over there' is completely ignorant of the history. This has been going on centuries before there was a 'we', from Sunni against Shia to family against family. 'We' are nothing more than an archetype 'devil' that the wanna-be totalitarians use to retain control over their 'State' by giving people a common enemy to rally against, with a cause divine (sic) enough to give their life for.
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I think I would describe myself as someone who is absolutely convinced there is a deity. Although, I think I would say those words meaning "I have been fully persuaded", but you might hear those words and understand me to say "I have infallible knowledge".
Now I feel like my reply was pretty inadequate. ;o)
“explain his dismal showing among thinking people”
“thinking” is not a word that describes people who voted for the presumptive R nominee, who will (probably & deservedly) lose in a landslide to a Marxist Democrat...as thinking conservatives abandon the top of the R ticket to vote for Baldwin, Barr or other non-socialist second party candidates.
“Yes, we have suicide bombers who want to harm us, but why do they want to harm us? Is it brought on by our past interventions, or do they hate us for our freedom and prosperity, such as we hear in the MSM?”
I am in partial agreement with you, but some Muslims really are crazy and murderous, even without foreign intervention. I’m far more concerned about the more moderate, secular Muslims, who might be pushed over the edge into radical Islam, because of a perception of foreign occupation resulting in the death of innocent persons. For that reason, I would have much preferred to see military action against very specific and limited terrorist targets, and not a full scale invasion.
“Did Paul also flap his gums about his brilliant Pelosi-esque foreign policy prescriptions”
Pelosi is a non-interventionist? bwahahahahaha
All modern dictatorships exist by the grace of protection by the globalist cabal that hides behind the UN insanity. They could not exist without it. This is the direct result of your brand of foreign policy, not Ron Paul's. Without our funds and military, the globalists would expire, and that is exactly what Ron Paul has advocated for 30 years. Alqaida was born in the Balkans, and nurtured by Wesley Clark, at the urging of interventionist Bill Clinton, but with the full support of Newtie gingrich, and Trent Lott.
Is this your idea of analysis?
Police have never protected anyone, nor prevented a single murder. They come in after the fact, and establish symbolic power. If you wish to live, you have to be prepared to defend yourself by whatever means are available to you.
Your huffing and puffing provides no answer to anything; you haven't a reasonable understanding of current nor historic events.
You're getting close. Islam exists as the extention of Ishmael's unmitigated bitterness and hatred of Issac. This hatred is now directed at one primary goal: to stop God's plan. This means eliminating Israel, and the gospel of Jesus Christ. There is no other motive for Islamic hatred and violence. It will exist whether we fight them or not. They will accept only total submission; that is what the word Islam means. Allah is Satan.
I can see Paul in a headscarve and skirt BJ’ing Boy Assad just like Nancy did. He’s eager to talk and trade with them. It apparently does not bother the idiot that Syria is ranked 2nd or 3rd on the list of dangerous terrorist nations.
It is ignorant to say a non interventionist foreign policy is the same as doing what dictators tell us to do. I have said US involvement in WWII was avoidable, and it totally was. Your problem is not with me, it is with the Constitution, which is why I think someone should propose an amendment stating that our military should be used throughout the world without a declaration of war. That way, at least we'd have the Constitutional basis for doing what we have been doing for so many years.
True, Hitler was finished, but surrendering would have meant he lost right there. He surrendered a bunch of troops that had been cut off, but he did not surrender. You can still “quit” while your enemy is alive and claim victory. For instance if Iran pissed us off enough and we bombed their airfields, military bases, and nuclear facilities, and then “quit” right there without finishing off the military or their leader, and then left, we would claim victory. At this point I don’t believe we’re fighting an army organized or strong enough to claim victory themselves. That said I think we should stay for around until the Iraqis can completely secure their own country and I understand where you’re coming from.
They hate everybody who isn't Muslim, but they don't attack everybody. Do you believe our interventions abroad have had no influence on why they attack us? I think Paul would have been fine with the way the Barbary Pirates were handled, since it was defensive in nature. They declared war on us, they captured and enslaved our citizens, and they were extorting money from us to pay for safe passage (appeasement). Jefferson formed the navy as a defense, and once they declared war on us, the feces of course hit the oscillator.
“I can see Paul in a headscarve and skirt BJ’ing Boy Assad...”
TMI
And some of you Hunter supporters say that we RP supporters are “kooks” and “nutcases”...
Not so. He has openly praised Jefferson's actions thereto.
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