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Toying with Genocide
American Digest ^ | 2007.12.16 | Gerard Van der Leun

Posted on 12/27/2007 10:41:00 PM PST by B-Chan

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"[Author] Gerard Van der Leun was born in Los Angeles in December 1945. He studied at the University of California, Berkeley. His career has been as a writer and editor of books and magazines. He has been the Senior Editor and Director of Trade Paperback Publishing for Houghton Mifflin, and has held numerous positions at Penthouse Magazine, from Publisher/Managing Director of the European and English Editions, to Senior Editor and Vice-President of Internet Operations. Gerard's articles have appeared in several magazines including Time, Omni, and Penthouse. He has been a literary agent and book packager, and he is the author of Rules of the Net: Online Operating Instructions for Human Beings (Hyperion), and The Quotable Sherlock Holmes (Random). He has also worked as publications director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and as the Drama and Literature Director for KPFA-FM (Pacifica). Gerard has one daughter, Justine, an editor at Oprah Magazine. He has been online since 1988, and blogs at American Digest."

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1 posted on 12/27/2007 10:41:05 PM PST by B-Chan
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To: B-Chan

BUMP!


2 posted on 12/27/2007 10:43:05 PM PST by txhurl (Yes there were WMDs)
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To: B-Chan
I have said here before that when Europe wakes up to the nightmare that has been spawning in its midst it is liable to turn to bloody fascism.
3 posted on 12/27/2007 10:47:36 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee ("A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.")
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To: UKrepublican; Mad_Tom_Rackham; Squantos; RDTF; jeffers; Army Air Corps; Dog; Dog Gone; 1035rep; ...

Us or Them ping.


4 posted on 12/27/2007 10:50:03 PM PST by txhurl (Yes there were WMDs)
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To: txflake

ping


5 posted on 12/27/2007 10:51:40 PM PST by QBFimi (When gunpowder speaks, beasts listen.)
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To: Calpernia; nw_arizona_granny; NautiNurse; Rte66; romanesq; swarthyguy; jveritas; peterpaul12345; ...
Us or them ping.

Hey, Islam has said 'us' will be exterminated so 'them' can rule the earth. Since it's inception ~1400 years ago.

6 posted on 12/27/2007 10:58:38 PM PST by txhurl (Yes there were WMDs)
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To: B-Chan

This is the feeling that I have been having for quite some time now... expressed more articulately than I have ever managed.


7 posted on 12/27/2007 11:11:15 PM PST by Ronin (Bushed out!!! Another tragic victim of BDS.)
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To: B-Chan

I think it was Csrlos Mendez who said the same thing in two sentances:
“You are going to get nukes, and you’re not afraid to use them? Well, we HAVE nukes, and we HAVE used ‘em!”

VietVet


8 posted on 12/27/2007 11:37:42 PM PST by VietVet (I am old enough to know who I am and what I believe, and I 'm not inclined to apologize for any of)
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There’s not much to disagree with in this article.

There are only really two paths that we can follow.

The first is an attempt to change Islamic culture, to bring into the norms of a civilized world. The attempt to do this is costly both in blood and treasure and is by no means guaranteed to succeed.

The second path is genocide no matter how you try to phrase it. It is guaranteed to work and will come at a low cost in terms of our blood and our treasure. And ironically if we were anything like them we would do in a heart beat without looking back...

But it demands a very high price on our souls, so we pursue the first hoping to avoid the latter.

9 posted on 12/28/2007 12:08:41 AM PST by DB
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To: B-Chan

Worth a bump.


10 posted on 12/28/2007 12:29:32 AM PST by rmh47 (Go Kats! - Got Seven? [NRA Life Member])
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To: txflake

bttt


11 posted on 12/28/2007 12:31:38 AM PST by 1035rep
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To: DB
The second path is genocide no matter how you try to phrase it. It is guaranteed to work...

Ahem...On your second path, ummm, no thanks. Let's select your first option and work from there, Mkay.

12 posted on 12/28/2007 1:35:49 AM PST by LjubivojeRadosavljevic
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I think the second option should be isolation, not genocide.

Something like this...

"Look folks, you have told us time and time again that these terrorist attacks are the work of a fanatical few and are not perpetrated in your name, yet these folks that continuing blowing themselves and innocents into plasma claim that they ARE acting in your name -- and we do not see you doing much to stop them.

"That being the case, and since you refuse to identify them, turn them in, we are forced to categorically eliminate the threat by restricting Muslims to a set area and to subject them to the most intense scrutiny whenever they venture outside that area."

Terrorists do NOT operate in a vacuum. For every dingleberry that blows his lame idiotic self to supposed Allahland in hopes of eternal nookie, there are a huge number of people whose actions both overt and covert make it possible.

They include not only the Mullahs preaching Jihad, the actual recruiters, the bomb-makers, the financiers the paperwork artists, etc., but also the friends and families of the bomber.

I do not for a moment believe that these people would make a decision like that, or gather up the courage to actually volunteer for it, without letting their desires/intentions be known in some fashion prior to strapping on the device. And, that friends of mine, make those people just as guilty as the bomber.

Terrorists also need safe-houses, routine medical and dental support, food, clothing -- all the normal things everyone else needs, all of which have to be provided by people who know who they are, what they plan, and are willing to support them. They also bare direct responsibility for the deaths of anyone who the bombers kill.

Collective guilt? You betcha!!!

And as soon as the rest of the Islamic world realizes that they will be held collectively responsible for the actions of the Jihad-jockeys, the sooner the supposed moderates Islamic governments (assuming such actually exist) are going to start cracking down on the operations, eliminating the leaders and generally pouring cold water on the fires.

13 posted on 12/28/2007 2:38:44 AM PST by Ronin (Bushed out!!! Another tragic victim of BDS.)
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Interesting. The timing for this article is very appropriate considering that the Pakistan scenario may be the first case of the extermination option!


14 posted on 12/28/2007 3:36:37 AM PST by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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Well, of course, there is the third path of a West that is so consumed with self loathing, the elevation of every culture other than its own, the dissolution of national sovereignty and identity, etc. that it simply dissolves before the Islamic assault and submits. A significant portion of the US political leadership would follow this path. A smaller proportion of the general population would submit today, but the instruments of education and government are trying to increase that proportion.
15 posted on 12/28/2007 3:55:03 AM PST by Truth29
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To: Ronin

You’re comments sound familiar to me - in another context, of course, because I’m a Serb. That is to say, your comments sound similar to those made by General Ratko Mladic during the war in BiH.


16 posted on 12/28/2007 4:25:57 AM PST by LjubivojeRadosavljevic
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Collective guilt? You betcha!!!

I couldn't agree more.

I look at war as an economic problem. When you make the cost of waging a war so high, then people will reconsider the value of war.

17 posted on 12/28/2007 5:28:45 AM PST by dearolddad (Opinions are like rectums: everybody has one.)
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This society can even ride out the killing by weapons of mass destruction of any kind of a number of cities. America, Europe, and Western Civilization can survive anything the radical Islamists can throw at us. ( from the article)

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Islam is NOT our nation’s biggest threat. Marxism is!

We can survive nuclear suitcase bomb. BUT,,,we will not survive if the Marxist who infest our government K-12 schools, colleges, and universities succeed in indoctrinating the next generation of voters.

18 posted on 12/28/2007 6:01:56 AM PST by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid.)
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To: Truth29

Well, of course, there is the third path of a West that is so consumed with self loathing, the elevation of every culture other than its own, the dissolution of national sovereignty and identity, etc. that it simply dissolves before the Islamic assault and submits.

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The Marxist and Useful Idiots who control our K-12 schools, colleges, and universities are hard at work doing just that.

The biggest threat to freedom is Marxism! And,,our schools are its most important weapon.


19 posted on 12/28/2007 6:10:09 AM PST by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid.)
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You’re right. Most people prefer to “go along to get along”.


20 posted on 12/28/2007 6:50:41 AM PST by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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