Posted on 04/23/2006 5:15:35 AM PDT by areafiftyone
unday April 23, 2006
A new audiotape from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden will be aired today on the Arabic news station al Jazeera, the organisation claims.
More follows . .
I can't fix anyone. Each person has the responsibility to fix himself. And a person can only fix himself if he is willing to take the time and effort to do so. If he is not willing to do so, he will remain broken. That (remaining broken) is his choice.
I didn't ridicule anyone. I simply pointed out errors which caused more errors. One cannot fix oneself if one doesn't know what it is that needs to be fixed. With that information, then one can fix oneself if one has the will, the humility and the courage to do so.
I truly don't understand why some get defensive when it is obvious that advice and help are being offered.
Also, Star, in response to your post about God-given rights: I appreciate the reminder. I would offer that, as a Christian, I believe more in the God, Jesus Christ, who asks us to be children of love and forgiveness, to be responsible for our own decisions relying on God's love rather than His just anger. While we have much to learn from the Old Testament, I believe the New Covenant of Our Lord Jesus Christ fulfills tha promise of the Old. Wouldn't you agree that we Christians believe in a Culture of Life? Those following evil believe in a Culture of Death. Life brings hope. We are a people of hope.
So just what reactions are you referring too, oh, thread-savant?
You said -- "I thought God gave us the ingenuity to develope the resouces to protect ourselves. The wealth is only a by-product."
God judges nations when they look to other things as their security -- rather than Him. It says so plainly in the Bible.
Make whatever list of other things you want. It doesn't matter -- if it's "other than God".
Remember -- "In God We Trust"??
It doesn't say, "In Ingenuity We Trust" or "In Wall Street We Trust" or "In our GDP We Trust" or "In The Pentagon We Trust" or even "In Our Constitution We Trust" -- etc, and etc.
Regards,
Star Traveler
You said -- " Israel would then have all rights to pound the little terrorist into the ground like slimy little rodents."
Israel doesn't want to be in control of that piece of land where all the Islamics are at. The certainly don't want to annex that land into their state -- because that would cause the government of Israel to be voted out of existence -- once all those Islamic votes were cast.
Israel is in a real tight spot here. They don't want to have anything to do with those people and certainly don't want them in their own country.
Regards,
Star Traveler
Nope. He's in the region. And locating and capturing single individual is a very systematic process (of course one in which luck can and will always play a key role nonetheless). And what you call "political garbage talk" is actual process that has brought in a sizable number of the HVTs we've sought to date -
Running sustained Ops in this region of the world at times becomes close to impossible. The logistics alone are a complete nightmare.
You said -- "The country that can travel to Mars and put a man on the moon can certainly recover from a 9/11 type attack fully and swiftly."
Well, God has ways of making it apparent to people that He is the only One to look to.
If our nation changes the motto from "In God We Trust" to "In Ourselves We Trust" -- the end will come quickly.
Regards,
Star Traveler
You said -- "He will go down in history as the great unknown. I believe he was captured. I believe he will never see the light of day again. And that is all we will be left to ponder :)"
It's a good thing he's dead then. I would hate to see what might happen if Osama bin Laden were alive...
Regards,
Star Traveler
You said -- "Well, we HAVE a thousand years of progress to lose, they have nothing already......"
That is so true. People here in this country would hate to be in the position of where those Islamics are "starting from". They can't go too much further backwards. We've got a long ways backwards.
Regards,
Star Traveler
The good thing about people like me...
I'm probably too dumb to post - But I am also too dumb to realize that I am too dumb to post...
8-)
I'm flexible.
How bouts the Great DIRTY Diaperhead?
You know the kind you need to toss into the diaper pail?
;)
Seriously, these people are PURE EVIL.
Not in you that is for certain.
So if something bad happens it is all your fault.
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