Posted on 09/24/2004 3:08:03 PM PDT by Pokey78
The Pan Am 103 bombing on December 21, 1988, killed 270 people, including 189 Americans. But Libyan terror chief Moammar Gadhafi has not been charged.
"'I am an American. But even if I were a Canadian, I wouldn't be a Canadian -- I'd be an Albertan.' -- Alberta's Child "
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So what you're really getting at is the fact that the Bush administration hasn't defined the enemy as worldwide Islam and those who take the Koran literally? Or that we have thousands of miles of sparsely protected borders, or both? In fact, there's more than one way to skin a cat, and if we manage pick off the axis of evil one by one, all the better.
Along the way, we're hoping to persuade those who will listen, that it's better to live in the real world, one where people are allowed to make up their minds which religion, if any, they want to practise. This may be pie in the sky, but it's worth a shot, and that's what Iraq is all about. (Don't forget NK, too, while we're discussing enemies.) And yes, we're being invaded by the millions of Mexicans/Hispanics, a good many of whom don't plan to assimilate. I agree that we have big problems, but Kerry won't solve any of them.
I offer this possible scenario:
Our allies (Great Britain, Australia, Poland, Japan,...) would realize that the new President is going to bail out of Iraq and they don't want to be the ones left to turn out the light, so they'll beat cheeks out of Iraq faster then Kerry grabbing his board after hearing "Surf Up Everybody!" Afganistan's international forces hit the road too, realizing that Kerry is going to pull out of there too, faster than he can pull on a pair of those spiffy biker's shorts...
Iraq falls into chaos, Al Queda moves in and opens up a chain of Raddison resorts and training grounds. Iran cuts a deal with Zahwahiri and props up an Al Sadir dictatorship...
...We log in the next day (because we all quit watching TV news after Rathergate), only to read that both Afganistan's Musharraf and Pakistan's Karzai have both been assasinated in coordinated attacks...
...The rest of the world realizes the Global Cop is going to be in busy eating low-fat zero-carb doughnut flakes at the local smoke-free Krispy Kreme for the next four years, so they all decide they have to take things into thier own hands...
...Tony Blair ends up covertly propping up the Kurds in order stop the flow of radicals into Turkey and eventually the rest of Europe. France catches wind of it, fears thier illegal oil might be disrupted, and covertly supports both both the Zahwahiri regime and Syria in order to keep the go-juice pumping...
...The outgunned Kurds are mostly desecrated in another series of gas attacks. Over 50,000 die...
...Pakistan's new Taliban government finds the keys to the nukes. New Delhi is leveled, leaving over 200,000 dead. India unloads everything in it's silos on not only Islamabad, but Kabul as well (They decide to cover the flank)...
...North Korea realizes that this is thier chance to both really bond with China and pick up a little real estate, so they drop a couple of thier own on Tokyo. In a moment of delicious irony, they drop one on Hiroshima as well. South Korea surrenders within 3 months without a shot being fired....
...China, realizes that the US is too busy at this point wringing thier collective hands over the world crisis, but unable to stop themselves from being distracted about global warming. We open our browsers the next day to read that Taiwan's entire government has either quit or has been "retired"...
...Both the Phillipine and Indonesian governments fall in a matter of weeks. New, well-armed Islamic regimes step in to "quell the violence". Global shipping stops...
...Understandibly by this point, Israel has an itchy trigger finger. Tanks and bulldozers systemically reduce Gaza to nothing but red-stained rubble. The West Bank is shelled from the sea and air. Lebonon is bombed into the stone-age. If anyone moves, it's game over...
...Meanwhile, it's the wrong war at the wrong time for the wrong reasons.
Ooops! And Hill's calling the shots in Kerry headquarters, too. Poor Kerry. What a dunce.
I'm not a big Bill Kristol fan, but this column is right on the money.
Hello! DU troll anybody?!?!
one of the absolute best articles I've read! he's pegged this loser for what he is and made several incredibly good points.
An excellent article from Bill Kristol, and 100% true. No amount of disgust that Americans can show to John Kerry and the Democrats is enough to equal what they deserve for this pathetic display.
Any press jackal who repeats this trash and helps the Dems trash America (David Gregory, John King, Norah O'Donnell, etc.) should be ostracised forever by thinking people everywhere. I for one will never watch David Gregory on television again. The instant he comes on, I will turn the channel.
Your scenario sounds frighteningly reasonable, with one caveat: Israel would probably have nuked Iran earlier on than you mentioned.
Could you be clearer about what your specific point is? And why it takes you 6 spam posts to state it?
Do you think that Americans won't remember that Libya is a terrorist state?
Beautiful!
I don't think they'll remember it much.
You need to get out more. Most people here support Bush and taking it to the Islamofascists.
I figured that with a complete withdrawl of US support, as well as Kerry's reluctance to take a stand in supporting Israel, that they'd hold back as long as they possibly could. They'd only pull the trigger if they thought it was thier last option.
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