Breeding Stupidity:Where does the insistence "war in Iraq is creating terrorists" come from?

WEEKLY STANDARD.COM ^ | JULY 14, 2005 | HUGH HEWITT

[CHARLITE]

WOT ping.

Char :)

[EagleUSA]

In response to the title, it comes from the moron mentality of the blame-America-first, hand-wringing, cowardly, appeasing liberal left.

[marty60]

They are not going to be able to defeat our military, they know that. They are no different than the Islamofascist in England, New York, well, the whole world. They are evil, and just like the MSM attention they get by attacking in Iraq. It's the media they are trying to impress (and Dums, with some success) that makes them go to Iraq. Maybe Iraq is just training ops for the rest of the World.

[bitt]

[tkathy]

The mullahs of money and murder are creating terrorists.

[Congressman Billybob]

The short way of making the same point is this: The Germans did not fight us because we fought back against them. Neither did the Japanese. And anyone with the slightest, dim knowledge of the schooling and public statements in Germany and Japan before WW II knows that the seeds of hatred and war were firmly planted before the war began.

Put the text books and government speeches and press releases side by side, from Germany, Japan, Iran, Palestinian Authority, and Zimbabwe. Other than details such as language and geography, I defy any of the "we are breeding this" crowd to find any difference between the murderous paranoias of those various nations.

Congressman Billybob

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[thegreatbeast]

Very good stuff. Disseminate widely.

[Sofa King]

"And anyone with the slightest, dim knowledge of the schooling and public statements in Germany and Japan before WW II"

That's, what, about 5% of the American public?

[johnb838]

The answer to the question is that the stupid insistence that the war in Iraq is creating terrorists comes from people who grew up so sheltered that they never learned the basic lessons of the playground. That if you don't eventually stand up to the bully or the gang, the gang never stops beating you up and taking your lunch money.

Taking out Saddam was a HUGE body blow to their whole movement. A death blow? No. But a very big setback.

My beef now is that we don't seem to be pouring it on trying to finish them off while they're wounded. I feel we're letting them get up off the mat by not being aggressive enough in Iraq and not stopping them in the Southern US, and that scares the crap out of me.

[atlanta67]

I have personally always thought that Islamofascists would have been more upsent about the Afghan war than the one in secular communist Iraq...afterall Sadaam had no ties to Al Qaeda right??huh huh??

[tessalu]

The greatest hope of the Muslims is to say in the media, "Look at all of the people killed, and it is all your fault, for you did not give into us, long ago!"
"The War in Iraq is all your fault, you did not side with Hitler as we did, you did not let us have our way, and we are in your country now, making all of you bite the bombs".

[Pessimist]

"The fact that foreign fighters are streaming across Syria into Iraq in the hopes of killing America is not evidence supporting the "breeding ground" theory."

To whatever extent that's actually happening, we should be glad. The whole difficulty w/ fighting terrorists in our modern PC society is that they are scattered here and there, dispersed among the general population. Although its tempting, we can't just nuke the whole Mideast because of world opinion. And we can't always tell the "good" from the "bad" even when we're looking right at them.

The problem becomes "How can we sort them out?".

And the answer to that problem is we let them sort themselves out by letting them head toward the fighting rather than away from it.

In hindsight, maybe we should have considered a much slower approach to Baghdad to begin with. The more who migrated to the front lines to fight us, the better. And in that situation it would have been more "acceptable" on the world stage to hit 'em hard with traditional (ie. "indiscriminate") artillery, etc...

I know this sounds barbaric, but I think way more of 'em needed to die in the early stages.

And I doubt if that consideration was lost on our military leaders either. Unfortunately, they're saddled with our (and the world's) low tolerance for serious combat losses.

Nonetheless, they should have considered this before hand. If you're not willing to go in and do the job right, you may be better off not doing it at all.

I feel sorry for our troops there - constantly being put in harms way just so we could minimize damage to the enemy. Our philosophy should have been "The life of 1 American soldier is worth l000 Iraqi lives", and we should have stated that openly right from the get go. If they had to level Baghdad to avoid a few American casualties, I personally wouldn't have had any problem with that.

What better way to separate them out

[ncountylee]

Blood lust (coupled with girly-man western reaction)emboldens the Muslims to abandon the false face of moderation and openly admit to the majority held mass murder doctrine of Jihad

[Congressman Billybob]

Your estimate is, I fear, too generous. I doubt that more than 1% of the American public have a clue that the brainwashing of the population into paranoia and hatred in Japan and Germany is a near-exact match for many nations today, including Iran, North Korea, Zimbabwe, and the Palestinian Authority, to name just a few.

Congressman Billybob

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[litehaus]

"That's, what, about 5% of the American public?"

Your kindness and generosity (Re the American Public)are only surpassed by your good looks and intelligence! LOL...

[jmaroneps37]

"Breeding Stupidity:Where does the insistence "war in Iraq is creating terrorists" come from?"
Rats have small brains and they think everyone else does as well. They hear something and repeat it over and over.

[concrete is my business]

LOL!

You got me...my coffee is sloshing all over the keyboard.

[sheik yerbouty]

Ted Kennedy and his ilk.

[bitt]

I have hoarded the best of the best - not my creations, but mine, now...lol