Posted on 09/08/2010 11:55:01 PM PDT by American Dream 246
“If we move from that location, the story will be that the radicals have taken over the discourse.”
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If lives are lost, his Westburro buddies will be out in force blaming it on the presence of active homosexuals in America. COUNT ON IT.
RAUF: I am extremely concerned about sensitivity. But I also have a responsibility. If we move from that location, the story will be that the radicals have taken over the discourse. The headlines in the Muslim world will be that Islam is under attack. And I’m less concerned about the radicals in America than I’m concerned about the radicals in the Muslim world.
O’BRIEN: But isn’t that also saying you’re less concerned about the voices of opposition here?
RAUF: And if we do — no, no, no, no. I’m sorry, I don’t mean it that way. I meant it, the danger from the radicals in the Muslim world to our national security, to the national security of our troops.
I have a niece who works in the Army and served in Iraq. The concern for American citizens who live and work and travel overseas will increasingly be compromised if the radicals are strengthened. And if we do move, it will strengthen the argument of the radicals to recruit, their ability to recruit, and their increasing aggression and violence against our country.
I am presently retired, young enough to be called back, as is any commissioned officer, but I think the force is drawing down now.
However, I have had my own on the ground in the subject locations since 2004. Does blood count.
These murderers need to be called out, HTR.
And all that needs to be known about this phony is that he's in agreement with the Westboro cult-thugs.
Exactly. It is these asinine ROE (and the "leaders" that created them) that are the problem. Our troops should not be over there trying to "engage" these filthy animals, if they are not there with the express intent of killing as many as possible then they should not be there.
A rule of the street is “don’t let your mouth write a check your @$$ can’t cash.” It’s actually pretty savvy as street wisdom goes. Jesus Christ says to “count the cost.”
On the ground, HNR. You got anyone there...right now?
It’s new lingo with new smiley faces on it, but it is not hugely different from what George W. Bush had been doing in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Afghanistan has been largely about trying to create West-friendly coalitions in a mostly Islamic people so as to keep a lid on terrorism and violence. There might not be any “moderate Islam” but there are “moderate Muslims” (you can easily tell them because they complain bitterly when the Taliban takes over).
Of course he is threatening us. All muslims are threatening those who disagree with them about anything.
How about you? You’re the one calling for sparking a war, not me. I’m not going to jihad Mr. Jones if he has his Koran burning. I’m going to pop popcorn and watch from a distance.
>>”We’ve got to ask, why is this man (Osama bin Laden) so popular around the world? Why are people so supportive of him in many countries that are riddled with poverty?”<<
Take a look at what himno hero posted on another thread and you will now why zero is popular with the muslimes.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2585916/posts?page=27#27
Nuke 'em all from orbit, just to be sure.
Lee Harris, The Suicide of Reason: Radical Islam's Threat to the Enlightenment explains this suicidal folly quite clearly, well worth everyone's time to read it.
From Harris: "The West can only think of fanaticism as a social pathology, a failure to modernize, rather than as what it is: a variety of social order that is not only fully viable in the modern world but also willing to use weapons to which the West is uniquely vulnerable. A governing philosophy based on reason, tolerance, and consensus cannot defend itself against a strategy of ruthless violence without being radically transformed--or destroyed."
Even slowing it down helps.
Already said I do.
Why don't you tell us how you really feel? LOL. I actually feel the same. part of you reply has been excerpted, because I feel it will be zotted later.
I’m not running a jihad.
The time to stand us is now. Too bad our wimpy “leaders” are abandoning us. They have sided with the enemy, as usual. The fact that the world is talking about this insignificant pastor and his little church burning some korans shows how whacked muslims are, not the pastor. I just wish one, just one, of our leaders would come out and say, “where was the outrage when American military burned Holy Bibles in Afghanistan, a country where we have spent billions and blood of our soldiers to try to help, and now people are peeing their pants because a few korans might be burned”? I am sick to death of this cowardice on the part of Americans. Islam is not worthy of respect and it has no place in America. BURN, BABY BURN!!!
Yes, particularly when it's in response to some nimrod burning korans for publicity.
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