Only in Their Dreams : Why is the "Arab street" silent? A radical Muslim fantasy meets reality

Time Magazine ^ | Monday, Dec. 24, 2001 | CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

FYI!

Also see todays Britt Hume news where he talks with Charles Krauthammer.

[Ronin]

I like this article but there is an element of wishful, or maybe "hopeful" thinking, here.

I hope the news continues good. But I will not be happy until we have Osama's head on a bayonet alongside Omar's.

[dead]

the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, the 1998 destruction of two U.S. embassies in Africa, the 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole. The limp and feckless American reaction to these acts of war--a token cruise missile here, a showy indictment there, empty threats everywhere--only reinforced the radical Islamic conviction that America was a paper tiger, fat and decadent, leader of a civilization grown weak and cowardly and ripe for defeat.

They took the concept of “representative” democracy a little too literally.

The fat, decadent, weak and cowardly leader was an aberration, whose time has passed.

[Economist_MA]

Good article! I think I read it before here on Fr, but it is well worth reposting.

[dennisw]

Yes boss! Just saw Ch. Krauthammer on Brit Hume (Fox)

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[ambrose]

bump

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I couldn't find that it had been posted.

If you have a link throw it on the thread!

[Shermy]

His insights might seem "right" but overstated. time will tell.

[dennisw]

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[denydenydeny]

To repeat:

What must be decided is not who is right and wrong--one can never appease the grievances of the religious fanatic--but whose God is greater. After Afghanistan there can be no doubt. In the land of jihad, the fall of the Taliban and the flight of al-Qaeda are testimony to the god that failed.

[dennisw]

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[isthisnickcool]

Yea George W. Bush! His administration and our fighting men and women!

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #3

What must be decided is not who is right and wrong--one can never appease the grievances of the religious fanatic--but whose God is greater

This cannot be more emphasized even when we fight the left, let alone the radical Islam.

[Economist_MA]

Doesn't matter, it's a good article and I don't mind the occassional repost. As long as it isn't the 4658st version of "I'm a bad Republican/American/Whatever".

[Caipirabob]

I'm STILL raving that this herd of camel-dung eaters actually attacked this nation to promote their bass-ackwards 13th Century psychosis on us and took our 4,000 innocent lives in the process.

They need to be stomped out of existence the second we identify such threats.

The Radical Muslim Fundamentalist - The 21st Century's answer to "Whack-A-Mole".

[VOA]

The fat, decadent, weak and cowardly leader was an aberration, whose time has passed.

You've boiled down paragraphs of prose into one line. Well Done.

[backhoe]

I just added a link to this for my next update of Tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast ( the stuff the media doesn't like to talk about, and doesn't want you to talk about, either... )--

[Zorobabel]

C.K. has them pegged.