Posted on 05/14/2004 11:24:22 PM PDT by LifeTrek
It is really getting that serious.
I heard this too, it was incredible, and I actually got sick to my stomach! Savage handled him so well, better than he usually does. Could not believe my ears Travis, that an American citizen could say such a thing. This isn't politics anymore.
Then we can really do some freeping.
For sure it could be the same thoughts as Dan. This is a female magazine writer though, and Gail said much the same on that horrible radio show.
Yet they see nothing wrong with holding that opinion. This is not like resisting the spread of socialism, because the Communist prison camps and "re-education" facilities were predisposed to just softening up attitudes, and making them more malleable. The establishment of Shar'ia law, and the forced conversion to the Muslim faith, which provide but two choices, adopt the faith or die on the spot, is far more intrusive than just being branded an "enemy of the people". There is a faint possibility of being freed from prison some far distant time in the future under Socialist rule. The world outside the prison may not be of distinctly greater range of freedom than within the prison.
But in a world under the direction of the Wahhabists, death may prove far more restrictive than prison alone. The Iraqis must be dragged into the 21st Century if only to diminish this threat of a world-wide theocracy on the Iranian model. We of the West have an historic opportunity to forge a new more rational international presence than we have known since early in the 20th Century, before the divisions that gave rise to the Great War. Militant Islamic jihadists threaten that prospective peace.
Funny thing. I have known some democrat/liberals in the military. After the Florida vote thing and the anti-military spewings from the media, many of these troops have left the democrat party.
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Stern, a former fellow on terrorism at the Council on Foreign Relations (and the inspiration for Nicole Kidman's character in The Peacemaker), makes the issue personal by depicting her encounters with religious terrorists around the world. Her definition of "religious terrorism" is comprehensive, encompassing the growing Muslim jihad in Indonesia, militant Palestinians and zealous Israelis, and Americans who kill abortion doctors in the name of Christ. Given the opportunity to articulate their positions, these and other subjects surprise not by their vehemence but by their relative normality, making it all the more curious that many of them eventually elect to strike against their opponents with deadly force. Explaining the "how" therefore becomes as important as explaining the "why," and the book carefully outlines the ways in which militant leaders of all denominations find recruits among the disenfranchised and recondition them, often under cultlike conditions, stoking their zealotry to the point of suicide and murder. Coupled with additional research, Stern's firsthand encounters bring a valuable and much-needed perspective to the problem of religious violence, and she identifies several increasingly broad threats, including the extent to which many governments will tolerate or even sponsor militant religious groups to further their own political agendas. For all the material damage terrorist acts cause, Stern argues, we should understand religious militance as a form of psychological warfare, calculated to bolster the faithful and strike "spiritual dread" in the unbelievers; the most effective counterstrategy is thus not violence but nonviolent techniques such as psychological counterwarfare and the reaffimation of our own values.
Stay safe !
My bet is Christiann Amonpour.(SIC)
I can't decide if it would resemble a civil war, or a dirty war.
Probably elements of Spain 1936, Argentina 1976, El Salvador 1980, Northern Ireland 1970s, Bosnia 1993....
If it happens, it will be a national tragedy. It will make CW 2, with its uniforms and clear lines seem to be a quaint and chivalrous affair.
First of all, I won't put the left on par with either the south or the north in the war between the states. The only high-minded ideals for which they would fight are rendered hollow and meaningless by anything but non-violence.
Second, I dare not speak my mind for fear of giving them any ideas. But they rattle the saber when they talk of banning our military grade weapons and ammunition. They draw a bead when they misreport and betray the movement of our troops. And they set the fuse when they talk about overthrowing our government because the Electoral College ruled against them.
It is they who will fire the first shot. They've already said they would. If there's anything we have learned from 9/11 and from the Holocaust, it's that one should believe it when someone says he aims to do you and your country harm.
Nothing new to me, I heard the same thirty plus years ago.
Hasn't improved with age.
I'm telling you, everyday, a countdown to culture war. Sick leftist weirdos against the rest of us. I just can't tell if their stronghold in California is going to collapse from immigration and fiscal stupidity before or after. The left coast would be a laugh riot if it wasn't for the electoral power they control. If I was one of the Republicans out there, still fighting the good fight, I think I'd have lost my sanity by now. Six months was plenty for me.
UP THE OLE CRACKER
Interesting, we finally get a President who says what he means and they say he isn't diplomatic.
If the Clinton/Kerry/French model of having no core beliefs that you are willing to fight for is diplomacy then I thank God Bush isn't "diplomatic" and realize that is why people like the media can call it patriotic to betray their own soldiers.
DKK
Shouldn't be too hard. There's got to be a list that can tell us who the female press members were over there in the same area at the same time. Did anybody forward this to Hannity or Rush yet? I bet they can find out in no time.
Don't be ridiculous! Smoking may cause serious health risks.
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