Posted on 03/22/2006 6:47:01 AM PST by Valin
[Part 2 in a three-part series. Part 1 may be read here. http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5345]
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Bump for later reading.
The Coalition displayed considerable adaptability once it became clear that insurgency was not simply gangs of stay-behinds but a broad and well-organized threat. Critics of the Coalition’s performance in Iraq rarely mention that U.S. forces switched with no preparation or warning from a maneuver warfare campaign to a urban combat scenario (known by the unlovely acronym MOUT—Military Operations in Urbanized Terrain), and in truth one of the most difficult – battling an insurrection hiding among a friendly civilian population. The credit for this generally smooth transition goes to outstanding training and excellent commanders – the success of Gen. David Petraeus of the 101st Airborne in pacifying Mosul and that of Col. H.R. McMaster’s 3rd Armored Combat Regiment in Tal Afar will be studied for years to come.
Oh - that will eventually be along the lines of a Hitler, Mussolini, Tito, etc. It will be bloody and violent.
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Yes, I agree. The people of Europe can be very vicious, hard, and ruthless when pushed too far. Many here are misled by the present passivity of their governments, run by elitist fools in the mold of Neville Chamberlain. When the rubber meets the road, the Muslims will be eradicated from Europe.
A pleasant fiction. Europe has already capitulated.
And should be of concern to all.
The fiction is yours.
I hope and pray that you are correct. But empirical evidence suggests otherwise.
Europe has been so tolerant of the muslim infiltration that many countries are approaching saturation. In fact UK may well become a muslim nation within 10 years without a shot being fired, just on the birthrate. Well, the British civilians couldn't fire any shots even if they wanted to, but you get my drift.
Many here are misled by the present passivity of their governments, run by elitist fools in the mold of Neville Chamberlain.
Europe has no choice but to obey their passive governments on this issue. You'll notice the EU is only passive on this issue, not in the area of controlling their own populations. Just exactly how are the Europeans as a people going to buck their government's wishes absent personal firearms and a collective will to revolt? Something like that...on that scale...hasn't happened since the 1400's. Sheep don't rise up and eradicate the wolves.....
You are just spouting the conventional wisdom around here. These are people who have a ruthless, get-the-job-done streak, hidden for the moment. Look at what nast work the Belgians did in the Congo, the Dutch in SA and Indonesia, the Germans everywhere in Europe, and even the French in Algeria. They are badly led, I grant you, but they will get rid of those leaders when it becomes necessary, just as the Brits traded Chamberlain for Churchill.
nast = nasty, of course.
"The Europeans have gotten themselves into this predicament through living a racist lie. The U.S., as the sole major country that has actually worked itself out of such a situation – rationally, intelligently, and over all justly—could play a role in educating both sides of the European divide. "
The feudal ghetto system didn't work any better for Moslems in Europe than it did for Jews, gypsies or any other group.
Europe, and the Islamic countries too, will learn from us- or decay.
Repeating your opinion multiple times doesn't make it so. You can't breed that kind of nastiness out in two generations!
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