For flying off to a campaign fund-raiser in Las Vegas at the height of the crisis, obama should be impeached for dereliction of duty. He went AWOL.
A real American president would say that attacks on the US will be met in-kind. We will close our embassy and leave your people unemployed. We will send your diplomats and all their related intelligence gatherers home from America so they will lose their opulent lifestyles here. We will expose their adulterous lives here. We will publish photos and films of their diplomats drinking alcohol. We will cut off all monetary aid to your country - top to bottom. We will close your mosques. We will restrict official and tourist travel to your country. We will boycott your goods. We are freezing all your assets inside the United States.
And that is just for "openers"?
Bump!
Great ideas, but we unfortunately need their oil. We have been prevented from enjoying the benefits of our own energy resources. Thanks to the left and the greenie weenies.
For all its insufferable shallowness, the article by the New York Times is supposed to be what the journalism profession refers to as a deep "think piece".
OK. Let's really do some "deep thinking" about the situation in the Middle East -- chiefly the Arab world.
Let's start by admitting that Islam and Sharia Law are irresolvably incompatible with the Constitution. In exactly the same way that Native American Indian and European colonial ways of life were incompatible with each other in regard to the concept of private property rights.
As it happened, an irresolvable conflict arose over this concept. It was conceivable that, morally, both sides were right. But, in the end, they could not co-exist and one side had to win, one side had to lose.
Over the past 1,400 years, the Islamic world has sporadically mounted a threat against civilization (one cannot argue that Islamic societies are "civilized"). From Constantinople to Vienna to Khartoum to the Twin Towers, Islam has sought to win its point thru violence. It's important to recognize that this won't magically stop happening.
And it's doubly important to recognize that, with the advent of jet planes, world travel and the modern world's energy needs, Islamic radicalism is no longer isolated within the backward confines of the Islamic Arc.
Indeed, Islamic radicalism now has access to weapons other than the sword. Chemical weapons, biological weapons and, yes, nuclear weapons are -- or soon will be -- within their grasp. Moreover, they can deliver these weapons anywhere in the world -- without need of sophisticated high-tech delivery systems. And, given a culture that adores and idolizes martyrdom, there is no doubt THEY WILL USE THEM!
So, just as the monastery choir in "Sound of Music" asked "What do you do about Maria?", we must ask -- in a much more serious tone -- "What do you do about the Arabs?"
And, if the long-term solution is not annihilation of Islam and its followers, just what is it? And isn't it time to start thinking about it -- if not implementing it?
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm???