Posted on 03/12/2013 5:45:40 AM PDT by lbryce
On Feb. 26, 2003, President George W. Bush gave a speech at the American Enterprise Institute, spelling out what he saw as the link between freedom and security in the Middle East. “A liberated Iraq,” he said, “can show the power of freedom to transform that vital region” by serving “as a dramatic and inspiring example … for other nations in the region.”
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unmentioned and never considered are those who are not fanatic wackos. They are the body of Islam.
Crappola,
Israel should just Nuke about 15 or 20 moosie population centers and be over with it.
True but they can be. The religion creates what we call wackos or fanatics. This is why all the typical Muslim countries have bans on outside information. They keep them dumb and feed them a bunch of lies.
unmentioned and never considered are those who are not fanatic wackos. They are the body of Islam.
I have been thinking about this problem since 9/11/01.
We may have to resort to either a blockade and immigration prohibition or colonizing territory.
How about the next time we are attacked, we ID the offending country and take some of their territory? Perhaps a port or resource-rich area? If they keep attacking us, we take more territory.
We make it clear that they are never getting the land back and they will lose more and more until they make permanent peace with the rest of the world.
We need to make war more expensive for them than it is for us.
Its either that or nuke the site from orbit.
Like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s1MspmfEwg
We called them Al Qaida wannabees. These are the guys who would be coming over the wire at night but your best buddy during the day. Islam is too much of an influence in their lives.
I agree with you about wiping Mecca [and the other holy sites for that matter]. Could the mudslimes hate us any worse than they already do? Would their pagan god be discredited? Would they bow to a smoking crater? There’s only one way to find out. Perhaps we could appease the squeamish by using conventional bombs instead of nukes. As other posters have said, killing 2 billion pagans isn’t feasible. Destroying their holiest shrine is.
No. They stated that their anger would be directed towards those who deceived them, not those who revealed that allah was a false god.
“Would their pagan god be discredited?”
Yes. An all powerful omnipotent god would have not let himself be destroyed in the first place.
“Would they bow to a smoking crater?”
No. Bowing to a crater would just further their humiliation. Humiliation is a big deal in that neck of the woods/desert.
“There’s only one way to find out. Perhaps we could appease the squeamish by using conventional bombs instead of nukes.”
Appease and lose, nuke and win - your choice. In any case, once the jihads kill enough of the vocal squeamish, the hand wringing will cease.
“Going into Afghanistan was a good idea, so long as it was to depose the Taliban...”
During the Cold War we used to know how to overthrow their dictator and put one of our dictators in their place. Once the Taliban were overthrown, our guys were done. From there we could have thrown $$ and weapons that way and let the CIA handle things. Ah well, woulda, coulda, shoulda.
“...next time we are attacked, we ID the offending country and take some of their territory?”
Ok, so imagine the attack takes place and the guilty party is 75% likely to be a shadowy group of Turk and Chechin terrorists based in Hamburg Germany.
What territory does President Darth order the military to take?
Garmisch?
Seriously, ID where they got their funding, training, ideology, etc.
We really need to deal with the source. The jihadis game our own system and principles to use against us. Stupid, they ain’t.
If the rules favor the enemy, CHANGE the rules.
“We really need to deal with the source.”
Yes, of course, and a lot of that funding comes from the Saudis. My larger point is that it isn’t always clear where their funding and training came from (ideology is a different matter). We apply % of certainty, but don’t always know for sure.
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