[Tolik]

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[Tolik]

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[MileHi]

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[Cacique]

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[wizr]

I wonder how much the Democrats will like it when they are forced to accept Islam, or die.

Or, that all gays will have their throats cut.

Of course, that won’t be a problem for Obama. He will be the new Muslim taskmaster.

[phs3]

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[Carry_Okie]

We can win this war the same way Ronald Reagan defeated the Soviet Union: Cut off the money. Reagan decontrolled access to oil. The price fell. The cash flow dried up.

The American and European environmental left, as empowered by the tax-exempt "charitable" foundations belonging to a corporate aristocracy, threatens our existence with an alternative reality of violent submission to destructive and backward Islam or a ubiquitous and omnipresent electronic bureaucratic fascist tyranny.

[Polarik]

Good article!

In several posts, I made the statement, and I'll say it again, that the Obama-Biden "Osama, Al Qaeda, and Pakistan" issue is one, big, fat herring. No, I take that back. It's a huige stinking pile of garbage where the intention is not to support democracy in Pakistan, but to intentionally destabilize it.

Biden made mention of Pakistan "already having nukes," as if Pakistan is going to allow a terrorist "up in the hills and caves near Afghanistan" to get hold of them.

Nope. This is a calculated move by them to take the issue of a nuclear Iran off the table. Biden has been in bed with Iran for many years, and the very last thing he and the Messiah would do is to "upset" Iran.

This crap about, "Well Ahmadinejad is not the most powerful person in Iran," or "Ahmadinejad" is not the person who runs the country" is doggie doo. The mullahs from Khomeni on down have bought into his messianic and maniacal view that wiping out Israel will hasten the return of the 12th Imam.

If Islamic fundamentalists take control of Pakistan, not only will Obama-Biden NOT mess with Iran, they won't mess with Pakistan either, sayting, "Sorry folks, but we cannot go into Pakistan looking for Osama -- who's probably dead by now -- because Pakistan has nukes."

Biden is a lying bee-atch for claiming that "Iran is not working on building a nuke."

How many jumped out of their chairs when he said that -- along with his comment that Obama supports nuclear power?

[rbg81]

Afghanistan is a canard for the Dems. They have as little stomach for waging war there as they do in Iraq. I certainly don’t believe Obama when he says he will take on Pakistan (though the fiction that Pakistan is an ally needs to go).

Until the safe havens in Pakistan are shut down, all that can really be done is to hold Afganistan. The root cause of much of our troubles is the radical Islam ideology that originates in Saudi Arabia.

The GWOT is much like WWII in size and scope. To win, you really do need to fight on multiple fronts at once. So far, we’ve no had the will to do that. I don’t think either Obama or McCain will either (Palin might). IMHO, one of the great failures of the Bush administration is to continue the fiction that countries like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are our allies—they are not. Making accomodations with Hezbollah, Hammas, and Iran are big mistakes too. If they had taken seriously the GWOT and expanded our military after 9/11 (instead of shrinking it), we’d be much better able to deal with these situations today.

[Tolik]

Cross-referencing 2 Totten's articles on the theme: Obama and Biden have no idea what are they talking about in regards of Middle East and Afghanistan

Joe Biden’s Alternate Universe [Hezbullah and Lebanon]

The War Won’t End in Afghanistan [Michael Totten dismantles Obama and the Left's wishful thinking]