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Krauthammer: The Enemy Is Not Islam. It Is Nihilism
The Weekly Standard ^ | 10/22/2001 | Charles Krauthammer

Posted on 10/14/2001 9:30:12 PM PDT by Pokey78

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1 posted on 10/14/2001 9:30:12 PM PDT by Pokey78
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2 posted on 10/14/2001 9:36:02 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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3 posted on 10/14/2001 9:39:43 PM PDT by FReethesheeples
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He's wrong, of course. It might look like Nihilism, but it really is Islam. Sorry.
4 posted on 10/14/2001 9:40:43 PM PDT by jlogajan
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The Nihilists were also out to get the Big Lebowski's money.
5 posted on 10/14/2001 9:41:26 PM PDT by mcurb
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This blows the isolationist/pacificist/Buchananite argument out of the water. It does not matter to the enemy what US foreign policy has been or should be. They simply want to destroy us. Therefore we must destroy them first.
6 posted on 10/14/2001 9:45:01 PM PDT by StockAyatollah
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Yep. Islam is a cult of death and destruction with tens of millions of followers. We see them, we hear them, and the rest of the Muslims remain silent, thus giving their tacit approval.
7 posted on 10/14/2001 9:46:03 PM PDT by onyx
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Fairly definitive, but the only real nihilism in this article (as I have come to know the term) is in Charles' refusal to state the issues in terms of good vs. evil. That makes him nihilistic insofar as the term includes the abnegation of right and wrong values.

No, what we are seeing in Bin Laden and his ilk can all be justified within Islam itself when Islam really wants to show its upraised rear end to the world. The Islamic world is coalescing around this guy as though he were the Makhdi. More and more of them are voicing their allegiance to him and their belief in his ability to triumph. Islam, like Nazism and Communism before it, dooms adherents to some rather fatuous and fanatical flights of fancy.

8 posted on 10/14/2001 9:50:28 PM PDT by Migraine
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This blows the isolationist/pacificist/Buchananite argument out of the water.

Sure does. We haven't heard much from old Pat lately. Last time I looked up he was talking up that tired old "we need to understand what motivates these people" line. Maybe he figured out that at least 92% of the American public wasn't going to buy it. Good riddance as far as I'm concerned. But I'm sure he will be back.

9 posted on 10/14/2001 9:58:09 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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Traditional Islam, through a long process of dialectics, csame to terms with the world. But these "reformers" turn their back on history and that tradition, and try to fit the incomprehendable word of God into their little minds. No wonder they are enraged.
10 posted on 10/14/2001 10:00:35 PM PDT by RobbyS
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Neocon Krauthammer is desperate for a new tack to inspire the masses to go to a war. His and his neocon buddies' agenda is transparent -- America must fight Israel's war.
11 posted on 10/14/2001 10:05:15 PM PDT by madrussian
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Kinda reminds me of Beneath the Planet of the Apes(the eggheads with the nuke).
12 posted on 10/14/2001 10:10:22 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: abwehr
Escalating the war to include all the favorite Israel's enemies is what Israel's war is. America is in the war of retaliation.
14 posted on 10/14/2001 10:26:16 PM PDT by madrussian
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The Nihilists were also out to get the Big Lebowski's money.

"Nihilists? Say what you will about National Socialism - at least it's an ethos..."

;)
15 posted on 10/14/2001 10:31:37 PM PDT by general_re
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Total garbage on your part. Isolationism doesn't mean not punishing those that hit you first. It means you go around playing Globalist which is the policy you seem to favor which has been a miserable failure.

GO PAT GO! AMERICA FIRST!!!

16 posted on 10/14/2001 10:34:28 PM PDT by Greg Weston
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Don't be a simpleton. The jihadists did not destroy the Bamiyan Buddhas because of a Jewish connection. There is no Jewish connection in the South Philippines, Indonesia, Kashmir, Chechnya, Sudan, Algeria, Nigeria, etc etc.

The problem is the insane death cult called radical islam.

17 posted on 10/14/2001 10:36:03 PM PDT by Travis McGee
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"But I'm sure he will be back."

And you would be wise to heed Mr.Buchanan's words instead of twisting them. Your brand of foreign interventionism has been a terrible failure. Deal with it. GO PAT GO!!! AMERICA FIRST!!!

18 posted on 10/14/2001 10:38:47 PM PDT by Greg Weston
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Correction... It means you DON'T go around playing Globalist which is the policy many neocons seem to favor which has been a miserable failure. When are the neo CON frauds going to learn?
19 posted on 10/14/2001 10:42:02 PM PDT by Greg Weston
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