Up Against Fanaticism

The News Herald, Panama City ^ | April 18, 2004 | Phil Lucas

[fatidic]

Bush and his war council should digest the facts of this article and then give up trying to impose democracy on Muslims who don't want it, don't understand it, don't appreciate it and which goes against Islam.

President Bush should not make our soldiers sacrifice their lives to bring democracy to Iraq. Bomb the hell out of the terrorists and then get the hell out of their countries.

[An Old Man]

"Bush and his war council"

Being a somewhat distant member of that war council, I must inquire. Exactly what is it that you wish us to do with the accumulation of Muslim carcasses we will be forced to dispose of if we follow your suggestions?

Semper Fi

[Eighth Square]

Agree! (1st Recon Bn, 1 Mar Div - 1955-1959)

Semper Fi!

[Billthedrill]

Great editorial.

I think that bin Laden drew a perfectly natural conclusion - kill enough people and the survivors will accommodate you. Certainly nothing in his previous experience with both Europeans and Americans disabused him of that notion. And it isn't just him.

It is, in my experience, a difficult thing for civilized, tolerant people to understand that there really are other people who want to kill them and won't be talked out of it. These cling to negotiation because its alternative, killing, offends their moral senses and is not, under normal circumstances, anything but a last-resort policy anyway. Morality has, for them, become so blurred by safety and luxury that they truly do believe that fighting back lowers one to the level of the attacker. Only the protected can afford that level of "broad-mindedness."

In truth, however, we have not forgotten which is the business end of the gun, or at least enough of us have not to make the difference. That may change. If it does, bin Laden will have been proven right. I hope it does not happen in my lifetime.

[Chi-townChief]

bttt

[lainde]

bttt

[TomasUSMC]

"Our president announced it would be a very long war, then took the battle to the Islamic homeland. Sound familiar?

Let’s consider the concept of a “long war.” Last time it was 200 years, give or take. "

This "long war" is a fatal mindset we have. We don't have to have a long war. Saying it will be a long war is nonsense. We have the ability, the opportunity, and the responsibility to win this war quickly. The "longer" we drag this out the more time the enemy has to get WMDs into Iraq or the U.S.

Start issuing nuclear ultimatums before they are issued on US.

[fatidic]

Your question about disposal of "Muslim carcasses" seems weird to me. What don't you get about defending ourselves by killing those who are trying to kill us--even to taking the fight to them preemptively and then letting the dead bury the dead. I'm not advocating wiping Muslims off the face of the earth except in self-defense.

Bush seems like a sincere, though misguided man when he breaks his campaign promise against nation-building. Bring our troops home and let the Iraqi Muslims go back to killing each other and hit 'em hard if they come after us. We did them and the world a kindness by deposing of Saddam. Now let us look after our own interests and bring our troops home and spend our tax dollars here.

Bush is also misguided when he thinks he has the constitutional authority to nation-build selectively while ignoring the suffering of Christians in the Sudan, for example. Bush is not a wise man in the ways of the world or the ways of human nature. He also is not wise in the ways of God who does not force Himself, His truth, His freedom on the unwilling. If Bush was the American President, instead of President of the World, he would put American interests first. We need roads, we need improved infrastructure. Bush is very generous with other people's money, just like a liberal.

[Getsmart64]

"Bush seems like a sincere, though misguided man when he breaks his campaign promise against nation-building. Bring our troops home and let the Iraqi Muslims go back to killing each other and hit 'em hard if they come after us. We did them and the world a kindness by deposing of Saddam. Now let us look after our own interests and bring our troops home and spend our tax dollars here."

You should expand on your reasoning skills. What you just typed here is so full of holes a terrorists with a truck bomb could drive thru it.

[ought-six]

"Muslims are not now nor have they ever been anything less than the most intollerant people on the planet. Simple as that."

That is indeed a fact. Islam is the most bigoted, intolerant, hateful and militant "religion" in history. Christianity had its brutal days, no doubt about it, but Islam is something else, something dark, something very dark.

[Robbin]

Great article, I missed your post and tried to repost. I'm giving it a MUST READ BUMP!

[Salem]

Great article! Seems not all newspaper editors are brainwashed in the false religion of multi-culturalism and relativism.

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[PsyOp]

Islam for Idiots:

Mohammed, The Mad Poet Quoted....

[An Old Man]

That's an A1, 1st class collection of links you have on your home page! Congratulations on a job well done.

Semper Fi

[Salem]

"That's an A1, 1st class collection of links you have on your home page! Congratulations on a job well done."

Roger that, sir. A community effort reflective of the help and input of many different Americans. If we can't fight today in the Terror war Arena, we can still fight like hell in the Arena of the War of Ideas!

[fly_so_free]

"Anybody catch Lord of the Rings? You know the good part? The part that drew us to the books and movies because it was the truest part; the titanic struggle between good and evil, between freedom and enslavement, between the individual and the state, between the celebration of life and the worshiping of death.

That's the fight we are in and it never ends. It just has peaks and valleys

Wow! I was thinking something similar when I saw the pictures too. That these Saddamites and Islam fanatics are so insanely evil they are like something out of LOTR . It is total madness for the liberals to think they can be reasoned with. There is no doubt in my mind that if they ever had or ever will get Bio, chem, or nuke weapons they would not hesitate to use them.

Helloooo liberals, these fanatics don't care about their own children, they happily send them out to murder innocent people and blow themselves to bits. What makes you think you can trust them with your children's futures?

Excellent article.

[Mel Gibson]

Death to Political Correctness

[etcetera]

The U.S. should begin a very well publicized program of fallout shelter building. Congress would provide states with funding to build large public shelters and states would provide tax incentives for private citizens to build shelters in their back yards.

Private industry would be encouraged provide modern up-to-date designs incorporating the latest technology.

All this would not go unnoticed by foreign media and governments. The question would be, "Why is the U.S. building all these shelters?"

They could be for protection from terrorist bombs, the often mentioned "WMD" which it was feared Saddam would supply.

Or it could be protection from a nuclear Iran or a hostile China. Maybe fears of a nuclear Brazil or North Korea.

But the true reason is that the U.S. is preparing for the day the U.S. nukes the Islamics where they live. Sort of like the Vietnam scenario - calling down an airstrike in your own perimeter. Only this perimeter is Planet Earth.

[broadsword]

Islam is a deadly world-wide plague, and liberalism is the AIDS virus that thwarts our defense against it. Human civilization had better wake up and get as serious about its survival as the seventh-century savages are about our annihilation!