Posted on 01/07/2005 12:32:37 AM PST by hope
I think what you have to remember is that timing is important. The citizens of the United States didn't want to get involved in WWII before Japan attacked. As a nation, Japan was easy to blame. Today we once again have a significant portion of the populace that not only doesn't want to get involved, they actually want to aid the enemy if they can. Today we have what some belive to be rogue agents committing the "Pearl Harbor" envents. It's much harder to focus, especially when our leaders get up and swoon over the good Moslem people.
That is the reality we have to deal with.
The left are idiots no doubt. I'm still not convinced they wouldn't support U.S. action if a nuke were to go off on U.S. soil. Still, that's about a 50/50 from where I sit.
LOL! On second thought, it is cruel, and it's definitely unusual--all that pork coming from the sky would make huge sections of the Middle East uninhabitable for Muslims for centuries.
Good night. Take care.
Osama...get on your camel named clyde and ride baby...ride.
I hear ya. Have a good night.
Drowned in Teddy fat. Blech. I think most would prefer we bomb Mecca, after all.
Dittos, amigo.
No way no how. This would unite every muslim in the world against us. Nobody could be this stupid.
Yeah. I think Teddy is the ultimate example of bringing us to our senses. And there is that passage in the Bible which promises the world will not again be destroyed by drowning, but by fire... lol
Blech! I saw him on the Gonzales hearing today and wanted to smack him. That the MSM and the people of my state have given him a free ride for so long is a disgrace. The man can hardly get out a coherent thought, and his incessant hatefulness is revolting.
You're missing their main motivation in the first place. I'm talking about the Muslims' core issue -- which is the legitimacy of their religion.
What drives them to taken over territory (or regaining back any territory they've ever had in "history" because it's sacred), what drives them to want to destroy the Jews and the state of Israel, what drives them to want to drive everyone off the Temple Mount (where the Dome of the Rock is), what drives them to irrational acts (the way we see it) of cutting off heads, abusing their women, tolerating dictatorships for their people in place of freedom and democracy, what drives them on all this to the utter deprivation of their people and their own lives, along with their own children's live (as so-called "suicide bombers") -- what drives them in all this has nothing to do with money, freedom, suffering of their people, suffering of their own families, wanting a better life -- or any of the standard things that people think motivate others in general.
Purely, totally and ultimately -- the only thing which drives them, is the legitimacy of their religion and making Islam (supposedly) paramount to all other religions -- that Islam, which is destined to take over the entire world (killing all the Jews and Christians in the process).
Thus, what one can do to totally destroy Islam to all its current adherents and make the Imams and clerics totally powerless to affect or influence the "captive people" of Islam -- is to totally destroy all Islam's outward and "self-perceived" important (and critical) symbols.
That core symbol is in Mecca. Destroy that symbol and you destroy the religion of Islam forever. It will totally disintegrate. That's the bottom line.
Regards,
Star Traveler
More likely to be a wedge issue for the Muslims, separating themselves from their own "fantasyworld", called Islam and their fantasy-god, called Allah (sounds more like a half-sneeze, to me).
Regards,
Star Traveler
Aw come on, Ted's head is in proportion to the rest of him--all freakin' HUUUUGE.
I disagree. I mean, why else would he have to kill his mistress?
Thanks for the respose. Check out all my comments on this thread and I think you'll see that we progressed through some of the same issues you and I would if we were to do it all again.
Good night.
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