Posted on 08/08/2007 2:22:03 PM PDT by HAL9000
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In a desperate effort to revive his floundering presidential campaign, Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo has returned to his unhinged and wildly irresponsible discussion of punitive bombing of Muslim holy sites in Saudi Arabia.On “This Week” on ABC, he suggested that such threats against Mecca and Medina could serve to deter Islamic terrorists from staging nuclear attacks on the United States. In the Republican debate of August 5th, Representative Tancredo portentously intoned: “I read the national intelligence estimate. I see what they are planning. And I’m telling you right now that anybody that would suggest that we should take anything like this off the table in order to deter that kind of event in the Untied States isn’t fit to be president of the United States.”
His declaration drew warm applause from the Iowa audience, and many conservatives across the country (including numerous callers to my radio show) feel instinctively sympathetic to any pledge to use decisive force against our Islamist adversaries.
Rational consideration of Tancredo’s proposal, however, leads inevitably, inescapably to one of two conclusions:
1) He wants the United States to make empty threats that no Commander-in-Chief would ever dare to implement, or
2) He honestly expects our government to respond to a devastating terrorist attack with a course of action guaranteed to increase, rather than reduce, the chance of future assaults, while pushing our economy into ruinous chaos.
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Tancredo and Obama should learn how to keep their motor-mouths under control before they inflict more damage to our national security.
Dittos to that.
Absolutely. Actually, if you want to INCREASE terrorism, go ahead and bomb Mecca. That will do the trick.
It may reveal more targets, err, I mean incite terrorism, but it would be a good start and no different than what ROP followers have done to Christian and other religious sites for centuries.
Unfortunately, every square inch of any raghead country has some *holiest* of whatever so it is practically impossible to not piss the savages off.
Just to make a point.
Exactly. Want to really increase our issues, get every Mmuslim here pissed off over night.
Here’s a better plan: Quietly tell the Saudi Royal Family to deny the Islamonazi extremists access to Mecca, or else we’ll nuke the Royal Palace.
Look, on general principles I agree that Tancredo’s remarks were intemperate. If we did bomb Mecca on a whim, it would certainly be ill-advised.
What would we say if two or three of our large cities were nuked and Islamic terrorists took credit? If it were confirmed, I think we’re playing under a different set of rules.
I do think that at some point you put all options on the table. I do not think waving that flag around intemperately prematurely is productive, and that’s where I fault Tancredo.
Yeah, but Mecca would even drive the “straights” among the Muslim population nuts...
Tancredo’s never going to be president and I’m pretty sure he knows that. So it’s not the same when he speaks as when Osamabama speaks, since Osamabama has a very good chance of getting into the WH as the shoe-shine-boy-VP to Her Big Fat Thighness.
Tancredo’s on the political periphery and he probably knows that.
Given such outsider status, what’s wrong with putting the idea out there that we just MIGHT bomb Mecca if the justification is there?
Remember, we’re not dealing with high intelligence here, on the part of the intended audience. We’re dealing with sh1t-wrapped-in-rags. Vivid imagery might be the only thing that gets through to them.
What’s wrong with adding a measure of doubt in the sh1t-for-brains portion of the world’s population?
Islam does, after all, mean "submission".
This has enabled a small minority of psycho-sociopathic madmen to regularly seize power in any Moslem country and bend the people to his will where he loots and plunders.
Bombing Mecca affects only the wealthy elites in the ruling class. No one else can afford to make the trip ~ well, with a couple of exceptions. American Moslems can afford to go, as can European Moslems. The poor people in Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia cannot.
I doubt the broad masses would care about it more than ten minutes.
True. Which is why Akmed’s falafel stand that mo shat it might do instead. And we save a nuke.
Cuts down on overhead, that’s for sure...
Heh heh heh.
Tancredo is done, not that he had a chance to begin with.
"If the government of Saudi Arabia is overthrown by al-Qaida, the United States reserves the option of using military force in the area."
And leave it at that.
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