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Bad News for Islamists: Bush Makes Recess Appointment of Daniel Pipes to USIP
War to Mobilize Democracy, LLC ^ | August 22, 2003 | Andrew L. Jaffee

Posted on 08/22/2003 4:26:08 PM PDT by forty_years

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Finally. Amen.
1 posted on 08/22/2003 4:26:08 PM PDT by forty_years
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To: forty_years
Victory is sweet!
2 posted on 08/22/2003 4:27:16 PM PDT by Pan_Yans Wife ("Life isn't fair. It's fairer than death, is all.")
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To: forty_years
I think Daniel Pipes' appointment is good news for Islamics. They have told us they are a religion of peace and Daniel Pipes supports peace, so there's common ground right there.
3 posted on 08/22/2003 4:29:07 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: forty_years
this makes me wonder if bush will make some recess appointments of judges to the federal courts...
4 posted on 08/22/2003 4:31:48 PM PDT by Bill Davis FR
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To: forty_years
YES!!!
7 posted on 08/22/2003 4:36:54 PM PDT by visualops (Chalk one up for the good guys!)
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To: forty_years; oldglory
BTTT!!!
8 posted on 08/22/2003 4:38:42 PM PDT by Matchett-PI (Why do America's enemies desperately want DemocRATS back in power?)
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To: forty_years
Possibly better than making him ambassador to Finland. What does the USIP do?
9 posted on 08/22/2003 4:44:09 PM PDT by dr_who_2
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To: forty_years
I wish GWB would recess appoint some of his stalled judicial nominees.

NFP

10 posted on 08/22/2003 4:46:33 PM PDT by Notforprophet
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To: Cindy
Good job little Miss Smartie! I heartily concur. ;-)
11 posted on 08/22/2003 4:48:28 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: diotima
ping
12 posted on 08/22/2003 4:52:00 PM PDT by Bob J
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To: forty_years
I really respect guys like Pipes, Stephen Emerson, and others willing to really
hold that mirror up to the Islamic community.

These guys are really taking a risk that some Islamic will assassinate them, ruin
them with slander/libel, or just make them "disappear".
13 posted on 08/22/2003 4:52:58 PM PDT by VOA
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To: WaterDragon
Oh my goodness. :)
14 posted on 08/22/2003 4:55:21 PM PDT by My back yard
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To: dr_who_2
What does the USIP do?

Actually I don't know.
I just figured it's another name for the US Military!

(not being totally facetiously, because about our only real guarantor of peace
is our ability to blow the bad guys to smithereens...)
15 posted on 08/22/2003 4:55:35 PM PDT by VOA
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To: forty_years
Good job, Mr. President! The rats have held up our republic long enough...
16 posted on 08/22/2003 4:56:43 PM PDT by Libertina
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To: forty_years
WOO HOOOO!

There is a God.
OK... Bush's grades have gone up a tad in my estimation.
Sometimes principle over politics sends the loudest message.

17 posted on 08/22/2003 4:58:55 PM PDT by Publius6961
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To: firebrand; Gracey; sauropod; mykids'mom; PetroniDE
Ping-a-ling!
18 posted on 08/22/2003 5:02:14 PM PDT by diotima (So it's sorta social, demented and sad, but social.)
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To: forty_years
Good!!
19 posted on 08/22/2003 5:06:31 PM PDT by 4.1O dana super trac pak (Stop the open borders death cult)
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To: forty_years
AMERICA's war on terrorism did not begin in September 2001. It began in November 1979.

That was shortly after Ayatollah Khomeini had seized power in Iran, riding the slogan "Death to America" - and sure enough, the attacks on Americans soon began. In November 1979, a militant Islamic mob took over the U.S. embassy in Tehran, the Iranian capital, and held 52 Americans hostage for the next 444 days.

The rescue team sent to free those hostages in April 1980 suffered eight fatalities, making them the first of militant Islam's many American casualties. Others included:

April 1983: 17 dead at the U.S. embassy in Beirut.

October 1983: 241 dead at the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut.

December 1983: five dead at the U.S. embassy in Kuwait.

January 1984: the president of the American University of Beirut killed.

April 1984: 18 dead near a U.S. airbase in Spain.

September 1984: 16 dead at the U.S. embassy in Beirut (again).

December 1984: Two dead on a plane hijacked to Tehran.

June 1985: One dead on a plane hijacked to Beirut.

After a let-up, the attacks then restarted: Five and 19 dead in Saudi Arabia in 1995 and 1996, 224 dead at the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in August 1998 and 17 dead on the USS Cole in Yemen in October 2000.

Simultaneously, the murderous assault of militant Islam also took place on U.S. soil:

July 1980: an Iranian dissident killed in the Washington, D.C. area.

August 1983: a leader of the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam killed in Canton, Mich.

August 1984: three Indians killed in a suburb of Tacoma, Wash.

September 1986: a doctor killed in Augusta, Ga.

January 1990: an Egyptian freethinker killed in Tucson, Ariz.

November 1990: a Jewish leader killed in New York.

February 1991: an Egyptian Islamist killed in New York.

January 1993: two CIA staff killed outside agency headquarters in Langley, Va.

February 1993: Six people killed at the World Trade Center.

March 1994: an Orthodox Jewish boy killed on the Brooklyn Bridge.

February 1997: a Danish tourist killed on the Empire State building.

October 1999: 217 passengers killed on an EgyptAir flight near New York City.

In all, 800 persons lost their lives in the course of attacks by militant Islam on Americans before September 2001 - more than killed by any other enemy since the Vietnam War. (Further, this listing does not include the dozens more Americans in Israel killed by militant Islamic terrorists.)

And yet, these murders hardly registered. Only with the events of a year ago did Americans finally realize that "Death to America" truly is the battle cry of this era's most dangerous foe, militant Islam.

In retrospect, the mistake began when Iranians assaulted the U.S. embassy in Tehran and met with no resistance.

Interestingly, a Marine sergeant present at the embassy that fateful day in November 1979 agrees with this assessment. As the militant Islamic mob invaded the embassy, Rodney V. Sickmann followed orders and protected neither himself nor the embassy. As a result, he was taken hostage and lived to tell the tale. (He now works for Anheuser-Busch.)

In retrospect, he believes that passivity was a mistake. The Marines should have done their assigned duty, even if it cost their lives. "Had we opened fire on them, maybe we would only have lasted an hour." But had they done that, they "could have changed history."

Standing their ground would have sent a powerful signal that the United States of America cannot be attacked with impunity. In contrast, the embassy's surrender sent the opposite signal - that it's open season on Americans. "If you look back, it started in 1979; it's just escalated," Sickmann correctly concludes.

To which one of the century's great geostrategist thinkers, Robert Strausz-Hupé, adds his assent. Just before passing away earlier this year at the age of 98, Strausz-Hupé wrote his final words, and they were about the war on terrorism: "I have lived long enough to see good repeatedly win over evil, although at a much higher cost than need have been paid. This time we have already paid the price of victory. It remains for us to win it."

Daniel Pipes is director of the Middle East Forum and author of "Militant Islam Reaches America."


20 posted on 08/22/2003 5:08:31 PM PDT by Rome2000 (Convicted felons for Kerry, McCarthy was right!)
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