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Posted on 04/17/2011 6:02:15 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
On the same day reports emerged of a new al Qaeda video that praised the revolutions sweeping the Arab world, one the U.S.'s top counter-terror officials warned the terror organization "thrives" in the political unrest that follows.
"The governments of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen have drastically changed in the last six months," FBI Assistant Director of Counter-Terrorism Mark Giuliano said Thursday. "They are now led by transitional or interim governments, military regimes, or democratic alliances with no established track record on counterterrorism efforts. Al Qaeda thrives in such conditions and countries of weak governance and political instability -- countries in which governments may be sympathetic to their campaign of violence."
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[Cue up the pic of Gomer Pyle]
Surprise!
Surprise!
Surprise!
[Many of us, however, are not surprised. Many of us remember Jimmy Carter and his Iran policy.]
If not predictable, this was always “suspicionable” if there is such a word. The entire arc of Muslim nations in the mideast and across North Africa, is a tilted table that will always default to radical Islamism of one form or another. The rotten truth is that the dictators installed in these countries are about the best bulwark against Al Queda that exists.
Five and ten years from now this will become even more clear than it is today, if half of those nations aren’t wiped out by then via internecine civil wars or a pan-Arab assault upon a cornered Israel, which is my prediction.
We are not well equipped to battle, nor are we constituted to erase these nations from existence. They are, however, perfectly capable of doing this to themselves.
Our best course, IMHO, is to defund them by sourcing our own oil and energy. By whatever means available. Of course, we will not do this as we have not the will to do so. The last 30 years have proven this, with no coherent energy policy other than to choke off our own means of production. And so we will continue to fund our mortal enemies. A crappy dilemma it is indeed.
Go figure. Community organizers create the chaos/confusion, community organizers fill the void and the reorganized collectives of community claim success. Top down, bottom up, inside out. Van Jones, Cloward/Piven. Collectivism 101. Neo Collectivism. Government of the collective, for the collective, by the collective.
After the chaos in Iraq, my husband said maybe they would have been better off with Hussein still in power. These countries will never be democracies - not as long as islam exists.
When Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia fall. Egypt already on the way to Theocracy. Muslim fundamentalist.
When Israel is surrounded with no , at least tolerant buffer, the S will HTF.
“These countries will never be democracies - not as long as islam exists.”
It’s really precisely that simple. I am not sure what item number on the list of “things the US will never understand about Islam” it is, but it’s right near the top. To a Muslim, any other form of authority other than one authorized by the Koran is strictly prohibited. That’s all there is to it.
Well, duh!
Who do you think is agitating for all of the change to kick the dictators out? The Muzzie Brotherhood and its sister organization, AQ!
I guess the FBI director should be looking for a new job. Oh that’s why they want Jamie in the job.
W was too optimistic. At the time we went in, I thought we'd know in "20 years" but we're 8 years down the road and I can't say it was worth the human cost.
We do ourselves no favors by romanticizing "democracy" as the one-size-fits-all solution for every people. Even our system is barely functional thanks to institutionalized graft.
I completely agree with you.
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