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1 posted on 08/02/2006 9:32:47 PM PDT by Tolik
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To: Tolik

Excellent as always. Thanks for posting.


2 posted on 08/02/2006 9:36:51 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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Egypt refused the "return" of Gaza and both Lebanon and Jordan expelled the Palis and yet they scream about Israel's sins towards those vermin. Arab hypocrisy is limitless.
3 posted on 08/02/2006 9:38:46 PM PDT by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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4 posted on 08/02/2006 9:57:39 PM PDT by Tolik
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They'd have a much better time of selling their *victim* case if they'd have just said no to blowing themselves up and urging their own children to do so as well.


5 posted on 08/02/2006 9:58:42 PM PDT by Kryptonite (Keep Democrats Out of Power!)
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To: Tolik

"The Haj" by Leon Uris has clarifying insights in it about the craziness of Israel's enemies...


8 posted on 08/02/2006 10:08:41 PM PDT by 185JHP ( "The thing thou purposest shall come to pass: And over all thy ways the light shall shine.")
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To: Tolik

It's even worse than that! The modern Islamics have failed the Prophet Mohammed. Mohammed defeated the and subjugated the Jews, stole there holy books, and reduced them to dhimni status.

Now these modern Islamics lose one war after another to the Jews, lose Jerusalem, and are humiliated by the shining achievements of Jewish intellectuals and scientists.

Modern Islamics have shown themselves to be unworthy of the Prophet and are desperately trying to take back their perceived place in the world. They just don't have what it takes.


9 posted on 08/02/2006 10:16:53 PM PDT by claudiustg (dou•ble•think ('d&-b&l-"thi[ng]k), noun, 1949: a simultaneous belief in two contradictory ideas.)
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10 posted on 08/02/2006 10:18:17 PM PDT by Salem (FREE REPUBLIC - Fighting to win within the Arena of the War of Ideas! So get in the fight!)
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American cash aid, Israeli concessions, windfall petrol profits and, most of all, appeasement of radical Islamists can do nothing to alleviate these perceived grievances. Instead, there will be no peace in the general Middle East until Iranians and Arabs have true constitutional government, free institutions, open markets and the rule of law. Without these reforms, they will continue to fail, seeking easy refuge in the shreds of mythical ancestral honor -- and this pathetic neurosis of blaming nearby Israel for the loss of it.

Reforms like that would require revolutions march through the region like Sherman through Georgia.

To the Citizens of Atlanta: General Sherman instructs me to say to you that you must all leave Atlanta; that as many of you as want to go North can do so, and that as many as want to go South can do so, and that all can take with them their movable property, servants included, if they want to go, but that no force is to be used; and that he will furnish transportation for persons and property as far as Rough and Ready, from whence it is expected General Hood will assist in carrying it on. Like transportation will be furnished for people and property going North, and it is required that all things contemplated by this notice will be carried into execution as soon as possible.

11 posted on 08/02/2006 10:22:30 PM PDT by humint (...err the least and endure! --- VDH)
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The world preyed...

Good article. Thanks for posting.

13 posted on 08/03/2006 2:43:20 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: Tolik

Good article. Saved. Thanks.


14 posted on 08/03/2006 4:22:02 AM PDT by Reddy (America, Bless God!)
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To: Tolik

Clarity, good sense, and a joy to read, as always...thanks.


16 posted on 08/03/2006 4:40:32 AM PDT by hershey
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To: Tolik

When we invent dandelion fuel or the next best thing, and the world stops buying oil, Arabs will have nothing but carpets and sand to sell. At that point as always, it'll be someone else's fault...Jews, America. Whatever.


17 posted on 08/03/2006 4:44:05 AM PDT by hershey
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To: Tolik

Does VDH have a speaking schedule anywhere that I could check out? I would love to meet him and get him to sign my book.


19 posted on 08/03/2006 6:04:14 AM PDT by steel_resolve (Do you know what a bigot is? Someone winning an argument with a liberal.)
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To: Tolik

Absolutley brilliant and a masterpiece of concise and informative analysis on the ME today.

Hanson hits a home run with the bases loaded here.


20 posted on 08/03/2006 7:02:50 AM PDT by romanesq
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To: Tolik

Thanks. It was a great read. I am always impressed by VDH's ability to produce a concise analysis.


22 posted on 08/03/2006 7:53:24 AM PDT by contemplator (Capitalism gets no Rock Concerts)
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"And rather than make the necessary structural changes that might end cultural impediments to progress and modernity -- such as tribalism, patriarchy, gender apartheid, polygamy, autocracy, statism and fundamentalism -- too many Middle Easterners have preferred to embrace the reactionary past and the cult of victimization."

That sums it up very well. All of this violence is basically the wounded Arab/Muslim ego finding scapegoats for its own failures.
23 posted on 08/03/2006 7:54:48 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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"...ironically, emigrate to the much pilloried West by the millions."

They will immigrate for a better life but they have no respect for the west and continue to see it as the great Satan.
26 posted on 08/03/2006 8:13:32 AM PDT by Blind Eye Jones
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27 posted on 08/03/2006 8:35:30 AM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn't do!)
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To: Tolik

To many big words. I prefer the Teddy Roosevelt approach. Forget the first part about walking softly. Time to use a BIG STICK!


28 posted on 08/03/2006 2:02:07 PM PDT by JFaron (What price the loss of our sovereignty?)
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