Posted on 08/05/2007 10:47:18 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Speaker Pelosi Is In The Hot Seat Over National Security (Hugh Hewitt)
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Much has been said in the mainstream media about how the Bush presidency is essentially over, a lame duck mired in controversy. Thursday, however, George W. Bush demonstrated that when he does wish to use the bully pulpit, especially with powerful allies like Mitch McConnell in the United States Senate, he very much can move legislation through in a very timely fashion.
Thanks for the ping. Also posted in full on AntiMullah
http://alanpetersnewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2007/08/terrorists-in-their-own-words.html
Some Bio info:
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Listening to the terrorists' own words and taking them seriously is the first step in winning the long war.
James Phillips is Research Fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs in the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies, a division of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, at The Heritage Foundation.
James Jay Carafano, Ph.D., is Assistant Director of the Davis Institute and Senior Research Fellow for National Security and Homeland Security in the Allison Center. Austin Knuppe, an intern at The Heritage Foundation, conducted extensive research in compiling the quotations presented in this paper.
Updates.....
* Use the Democrats, left wing blogs, youtube and the liberal mainstream media elitists to help promote our propaganda.
To all of the rag heads of the world,
Piss us off and GOD will sit that one out!
We will turn that UN holy shrine of your and turn it into a somldering crater, that no one can go around for the next 20,000 years!
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Current Threat Matrix Highlight
See link at #27,....
James Jay Carafano, Ph.D. co-author of Winning the Long War: Lessons from the Cold War for Defeating Terrorism and Preserving Freedom
Winning the Long War: Lessons from the Cold War for Defeating Terrorism and Preserving Freedom
The Heritage Foundation ^ | James Jay Carafano, Ph.D. & Paul Rosenzweig
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1430965/posts
Prologue: The Long Shadow of the Long Telegram.....
Or
http://www.heritage.org/Research/HomelandSecurity/sr04.cfm
(note: A book I consider one of the must reads for those who really want to understand the who what where when and how of this war)
I’ve often wondered how differently things would have been if the President had gotten Congress to declare war.
How many times in the history of this country have we sent the military in without a declaration of war?
Answer: Alot, see Max Boot’s “The Savage Wars Of Peace”
” Half-measures lead to half-hearted strategies.”
Given this is a counter-insurgency on a worldwide scale, what do you suggest as a strategy?
“When the greatest sacrifice asked of the public is that they keep on shopping, seriousness is lost.”
Suggestions?
“Suggestions?’
To have gotten a Congressional declaration of war. For the reasons I mentioned. It’s too late for that, now. Possibly, we would be looking for terrorists at the airport, rather than weapons.
Israel’s El Al doesn’t pussyfoot. They profile. Without the solid backing of a declared war, we can’t even do that.
The problem is/was declare war on who? This is one of the difficulties of this war. It’s not so much a war on someone as it is a war on an idea Islamism. When you get down to it, it’s a war of ideas see reply 29.
“Possibly, we would be looking for terrorists at the airport, rather than weapons.
Israel’s El Al doesn’t pussyfoot”
There’s a difference in scale between what El Al has to deal and what American airports have to deal with. That’s not to say that I’d like to see us adopt the Israeli style of profiling, but that will require great deal of work and money to get there. That and a certain political party would fight it every step of the way.
I think (for obvious reasons) we obess way to much on airline security when there are other areas that need work
I posted some excerpts from a Rand Corp. book that you might be interested in looking at (note: it’s a free download)
Unconquerable Nation Knowing Our Enemy, Strengthening Ourselves
Rand Corp. ^ | Brian Michael Jenkins
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=unconquerablenation
There some good stuff in it.
Man I love fast broadband,....took me about one second to download that PDF!
Man I love fast broadband,....took me about one second to download that PDF!
would’t
my dictionary says that should be..... would-n’t
Do you like broadband? :-)
here is another - for your reading pleasure
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