[B-Chan]

"[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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[txhurl]

BUMP!

[Brad from Tennessee]

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.

[Ronin]

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

[VietVet]

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

[DB]

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.

[rmh47]

Worth a bump.

[wintertime]

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.

[SJackson]

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[BuffaloJack]

Churchill said: “An appeaser is one who feeds the crocodile hoping it will eat him last.”

[Dad yer funny]

FR bookmark ,.. .. (( “lemmee have a double SKYY & fresh orange juice , while I still can , .. sharia law in NYC can’t be far away” ))

[Cvengr]

IMHO, the author has the intellectual capacity slightly higher than a brick.

Genocide is not the immediate alternative to a conflict in wills between two body politics.

Military and statesmen after Napoleon frequently followed a definition of war as von Clausewitz’s definition of war:

“War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfil our will.”

Volition and will are the central focus in warfare, not genocide, not murder, not mass destruction, not capitulation.

In order to understand why there is conflict between Islam and the West one needs to understand what God has provided to have a relationship with Him. Ignoring God will not overpower Islam.