Don't push Rome too far.
"Yes, our distant progeny in both Western Europe and America have grown decadent and soft but, if pushed far enough, they are still capable of doing what we did to Carthage."
Posted on 04/23/2007 7:49:26 AM PDT by kellynla
Blame Bush, of course.
I watched a movie a while back that was about this very subject. A dirty bomb attack on London. It was called “Dirty War”.
http://www.hbo.com/films/dirtywar/
IN it a captured terrorist made a statement that has stuck with me since that day I first watched this flick. He said “ war is what unites us and it is what divides you” (Or something close to that anyway)
I am starting to think that lefties will not ever believe in this danger until after it actually happens. 9-11 wasn’t enough to wake them up.
“9-11 wasn’t enough to wake them up.’
They simply can’t handle the reality of the world as it exists today. Which is why politically they have pulled the covers over their heads.
They think if they make common cause with al Qaeda, and blame Bush, the terrorists will just...stop.
Nothing could be further from the truth, as al Jazeera’s headlines featuring Harry Reid last week demonstrates.
It used to be that there was never any question about what we’d do...and, we would’ve done it by now!
Militant
I used to think the same way, but lately I've been wondering if it might not be better to drench their black monolith with the blood of pigs and leave it standing as a constant remainder that their god is a powerless failure.
The first thing would be, Pelosi, Reid & the rest of the Commie Liberal Pukes would be standing in line to blame President Bush & ourselves.
Ann, I love you.
it worked with Hitler
for a little while
Once in a heated debate with a Serbian nationalist, my opponent pointed out that the Serbian air force had X number (I don't recall the number he quoted) airplanes, tanks, soldiers, etc, and said they could, if they chose, wipe out all the Americans in the region. I calmly asked him if he know how many attack planes were on an US aircraft carrier. He didn't know.
When I told him there were about 90 planes on a carrier and we had 12 carriers, he shut up. I think we need to educate some of these primitive b@stards with an exercise of real power.[/quote]
AMEN
I believe this whole Iraq thing would have been resolved if they had leveled Fallujah
when instead they went door to door handing out nestle bars like a re-make of Blackhawk Down, the enemy was encouraged and assured they could win.
to win a war you need to kill the enemies will to fight
I agree. But the Bush admin. was too paralyzed with the fear of infuriating the "Arab street" and losing "hearts and minds" to take the appropriate action.
I agree. It is time to narrow the differences in this long-lamented assymmetrical warfare.
Yes, the question identifies both as enemies. Deal with the closer enemy first.
Here’s your answer:
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The outside enemies we can deal with - we've always had the ability, it is just that the internal traitors and blissninnie cowards won't let us. However, should we lose 50,000 plus dead in any one incident (by whatever means), then all bets are off. I would expect that the world would get a lot of footage as to what the Bible spoke of when describing "fire and brimstone." We will be as merciless as we were in fighting the Germans and Japanese...maybe the Jihadists ought to talk to the few left alive by the ravages of time and combat, maybe they'll reconsider.
Don't push Rome too far.
"Yes, our distant progeny in both Western Europe and America have grown decadent and soft but, if pushed far enough, they are still capable of doing what we did to Carthage."
GRRRRREAT Cicero quote!
But but but
al qaeda is sunni/wahhabist and Iran is shia! They can’t DO an operation together! Ask the experts at the US State department.
sarc
nuking London would definitely warm the globe...
the Iranians must be greatly encouraged by their experience with the sniveling Spongebob specimens of nautical bravery they seized from the British Navy - and fear less chance of meaningful retaliation if they go for a euro nation
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