TANCREDO '08
Posted on 07/26/2005 2:03:01 PM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March
Just a quick heads up. Hannity announced he will be talking with Tancredo regarding the "Mecca Remark". If I'm not mistaken, it will be one of the segments in the last hour of his radio program. I'll try to provide a link for online feed.
Hm. So now it's "appeasement" to suggest that doing stupid things is a bad idea.
Hmmm. As contrasting the winning of hearts and minds of terrorists.
They don't compare. The USSR was an easy target. A nation. Al Qaeda, a group of terrorists not representing any particular country.
And you'll use them against Al Qaeda? Nope -- by nuking Mecca and beyond, you'll be using them against folks who, by and large, are not presently our enemies, but who would be as soon as you lit off the first nuke.
Wouldn't you rather save those nukes for an unambiguous target, like NK or China?
As noted above: doing stupid things is a bad idea.
Unlike Al Qaeda, the Soviets had a fear of death
Kinda ironic, isn't it? Tancredo suggested it may be beneficial for DeLay to step aside while there is an investigation and now the RATS want him to resign for something he said.
My problem with Tancredo is the stupidity he displayed when he made the statement about DeLay stepping aside. He undermined ALL Republican lawmakers with that remark and he was just inviting RATs allegations.
I also don't trust him to be a team player. He's a bit too cozy with the Buchanans and I'm fearful he may consider running for prez as a third-party candidate--like Buchanan.
You need to e-mailt his MP3 to Hugh Hewitt and Michael Medved.
We have special ones for them.
We would use the old ones this time.
One thing about Tancredo... He's not going quietly.
We should save them for China and N Korea. They fear death and destruction. Al Qaeda would more than likely use a nuke on us ifthey knew it would encourage us to send ours. They love death and destruction.
"it does not make them stupid. "
so show me where i said they were stupid, i said limp wristed moderate and jihadist apologist.
tancredo made no political blunder. you may like de-nutted metrosexual politicians but i dont. i want real leaders who would respond in the manner that tancredo said he would if a situtation like suitcase nukes occurred.
"something like that in the political arena makes me think twice about supporting him as a possible candidate against a democrat in a presidential election."
i never said anythign about tancredo for president. the important thing is that he's brought issues like immigration to the forefront....something the GOP has purposefully neglected...a pathetic move to pander for more votes.
"Wouldn't you rather save those nukes for an unambiguous target, like NK or China?"
Really? They are unambiguous targets? Children? People who defy their regimes? It's every bit as messy to nuke a nation as to nuke a culture. You are too quick to say:
"As noted above: doing stupid things is a bad idea."
—Sir Winston Churchill, from The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899).
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL:
Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.
The effects are apparent in many countries.
Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.
The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities - but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.
Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.
It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.”
Did Sir Winston have an understanding of the dangers of this faith, or what?
"Al Qaeda would more than likely use a nuke on us ifthey knew it would encourage us to send ours. They love death and destruction."
So let them live after they nuke us? I'm not that much of a pacifist.
Certainly what I posted was an over-simplification of the strategy, but if the Soviets had launched nuclear weapons against us we would have responded in kind. Mutually assured destruction was part of the strategy.
What was your old screen name?
Right, chained to steering wheels; with handlers; given incorrect info on explosives (they are set ahead instead of carrier detonating them on their own - unknown to them).
Time to soak the bullets in pig blood.
What was your old screen name?
Amazing, a Churchill back in 1899? Was he an ancestor of the Churchill of World War II? Two Churchills, visionaries of two world wars.
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