Posted on 08/20/2006 9:54:42 AM PDT by dirtboy
The God-fearing, Bible-believing men of the South and Southwest would make a great Christian Army. Don't laugh...when our survival depends on it, it will happen.
"...And there's a slight - believe it when you see it - possibility of a disarmed Hezbollah..."
Never, never, ever, ever going to happen.
Fight fire with FIRE
"Unintended Consequences" -- Big time! All you need is just a 'few good men.'
Well, we could start at sea by announcing our withdrawal from the treaties which forbid the granting of letters of marque and reprisal, and Congress could authorize the outfitting of privateers to harry the shipping of enemy nations.
Hard to believe this appeared in the Inquirer. Their chief hand-wringer Trudy Rubin must be aghast that this appeared on the same pages as her whiny column today.
I was thinking just yesterday that, in a time of asymmetric warfare, that we should go back to assasination and intel head games. If the other side wants to fight dirty, we get dirtier. And we have the toys to do just that - UAVs with Hellfires. Increase the pucker factor tenfold for the tyrants.
Islamic "militias" are the core of the problem. Although they have a growing political role in the legitimate governments of the ME, they are an independent military force that can act on their own volition against another country in a terrorist capacity. They are not held accountable to international law or rules of war as they are not a nation. Their host nation can simply disavow the tactics of the group and whine that they are incapable of controlling them and that reprisals against them is "disproportionate." Yet the nation that the militia is acting upon in a terrorist capacity is held accountable to all the high standards of a nation at war for the tactics and actions of its military force. What a strategy!
But this is what it will have to come down to in the end, isn't it? Assuming conventional methods fail against the terrorists—and it seems too many limp-wristed Westerners are determined to see this happen—the last line of defence/resistance will be the average citizen who decides a prayer rug and burka isn't in his or her future.
I can easily envision a future where the blue states fall under the Sharia, with cowardly leftists fleeing to the South and heartland expecting those hated gun-toting red staters to defend them...or maybe buy themselves more appeasement time.
I'm sick of our guys having to go by politically correct rules while the enemy does as it pleases.
This has happened in every recent war and we never seem to catch on, thanks to the liberal media.
I know I shouldn't, but I found that premise a little on the alluring side (now, for the CIA/FBI/NSA/etc - I'm not saying I would advocate it or carry it out or anything like that, so do not waste your time dredging up my tax returns for the last 10 years. Spend that time looking for the REAL bad guys. Had to say that since some of our guys tend to strip-search grannies instead of doing what is really necessary to protect the country).
Anyways, that movie had an interesting premise.
"The God-fearing, Bible-believing men of the South and Southwest would make a great Christian Army. Don't laugh...when our survival depends on it, it will happen."
Imagine the look on Pinch Sulzbergers face, waking up and seeing masked gunmen ready to cut off his head.
The obvious militia are the Lebanese Christians. They far outnumber the Shiites, and if given the weapons and training would be a better army for Lebanon than the regular army.
There are several good reasons that the US could arm and train them, and their natural contention would not be against Israel, but against the Hezbollah and Syria.
All so that Washington could declare us "a nation of laws" - while 15M Illegal Immigrants run free and polticians cower from the drive-by media and ACLU/CAIR.
Show the u.n. the door and then proceed to systematically destroy every terror cell, camp, cache, enabler and sympathiser known or suspected. Apologise for nothing except not doing it sooner.
Sounds like a good idea to me ... but if the media ever suspected that the U.S. was supporting them, they'd raise hell. Remember their fury about Reagan's support of the Contras in Nicaragua, and having the stupid Iranians provide the funding?
Count me in. The sooner the better.
I'm afraid you're right ... remember Clinton's pursuit of the dreaded Michigan Militia while the Muslims were bombing the WTC, the Embassies in Africa, the USS Cole, etc?
Not cut off his head -- maybe handcuff him to a bicycle rack outside of Fox News wearing only his underwear.
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