[Christian_Capitalist]

By the way -- thanks for turning me onto Congressional Candidate Lt. Col. Allen West. I doubt that he's the next President of the United States (sorry, but Sarah Palin's my girl, with Senator Rand Paul delivering the RonPaulist vote to Palin in 2012 -- hey, a boy can dream), but I'm always willing to support the best Republican candidate for any Congressional seat. They don't have to have the last name "Paul", honest.

But I do have a question for you, Falcon. Let's take one of Allen West's quotations on National Defense:

"I served in our Nation’s Army for 22 years active duty service and in three combat zones. I can attest that this is the vilest and most determined enemy we have seen in our Republic’s existence. We face a radical Islamic ideology that is uncompromising and intolerant in prosecuting its objectives, totalitarian and imperialistic global domination. This is manifested in Islamic terrorist organizations funded and maintained by state sponsors who are enacting proxy war worldwide."

Okay, so.... according to Allen West, we're facing a "World-wide War" against "the vilest and most determined enemy we have seen in our Republic’s existence".

If you really believe that, then I'll see your Allen West quotation, and raise you a quotation from Ron Paul's former chief staffer, Dr. Gary North:

"There is one target with such enormous strategic importance that for it be taken out is so unthinkable that literally everything hinges on it –- not just today, but permanently. This target is ground zero of a balance of power strategy that has been operational for 1400 years. It is a granite cubicle called the Kaaba. Inside it is a black stone, which Muslims believe was found by Abraham and Ishmael. For hundreds of millions of Muslims, this is the holiest of relics. If these two religious objects inside Mecca were ever obliterated, the survival of Islam might be called into question....

That would make the bomb more powerful than Allah.... This is theologically inconceivable for Muslims, or at least ritually unmentionable." -- Dr. Gary North, former chief staffer for Congressman Ron Paul

So, here's my question for you, Falcon:

If you really believe what Lt. Col. Allen West says about America being in a "World-wide War" against "the vilest and most determined enemy we have seen in our Republic’s existence"... then do YOU think that we should be frittering away thousand of soldier's lives and trillions of taxpayer dollars in American Blood and Treasure, fighting decades of "death by a thousand cuts" Pyhrric wars in peripheral backwaters like Iraq and Afghanistan...

...or are you willing to get hard-core serious, and I mean deadly RON PAUL serious, about the nature of Islam and say: "If you're not willing to NUKE MECCA, then you're just flapping your gums while pissing in the wind."

You wanna keep bashing Ron Paul for his opposition to backwater peripheral wars like Iraq and Afghanistan?

Or are you ready to listen to Ron Paul's people, and get serious about the nature of Islam, and admit that if you're gonna fight a war at all, YOU BLOODY WELL FIGHT TO WIN?

"There is one target with such enormous strategic importance that for it be taken out is so unthinkable that literally everything hinges on it –- not just today, but permanently." -- Dr. Gary North, former chief staffer for Congressman Ron Paul

"Slaughter them till you rot -- You'll accomplish nothing. Find the Root. Strike the WILL." -- The Mad Priestess, The 13th Warrior

What's it gonna be, Falcon?

[Falcon28]

I'm all for nuking Mecca and Medina, let's do it already. Problem is, it'll never happen. Western Civilization doesn't have the cajones to ever do that. Also, the threat of nuking these cities doesn't work either. It's like telling the Japanese, “Hey, we got these two really big bombs, it's time to surrender” - And, then we never drop the bombs. Only the actual bombing of Hiroshima/Nagasaki woke them up. But that was the 40’s and West. Civ. still had a spine. It'll never happen again.

As far as fighting for decades in backwater hellholes -that won't happen either and I wouldn't support it. For all intents and purposes, the Iraq war is over and we now have a new ally in the M.E. The Afghan war will probably take another 5-10 years, but, yes, I believe it's worth it. I say we send about 500 Predator drones there and let them reign down hell on the enemy. Drones are cheap and don't put lives in danger - that's how we'll win Afghanistan.

Iran gettin’ nukes would be a game-changer. At this point, only air-strikes can stop them.

But, then again, the Muslims can overtake a society without firing a shot - via mass immigration and mating like rabbits, i.e. Europe. Europe is gone - 20 years from now, it will be an Islamic superstate. We can't let America become Europe. We have to expose their ideology as Lt. Col. West puts it: “a totalitarian political system disguised as a religion.” We have to convince the American people about the threat Islamism in America and creeping Shariah - which is already being practiced in some areas of England.

Defeating the “totalitarian political system” of Islam may take decades, it took decades to bring down the Soviet Union. But, we'll need people to stand up and fight Islamism with bold, strong, articulate, fearless leadership. I've yet to see Rand or Ron Paul stand up and declare “who” the enemy is, what they stand for, and how we confront them; except for the comments of a former staffer.

We'll probably never agree on foreign policy issues, especially in regards to the Pauls, I suppose we'll have to agree to disagree.