Posted on 03/14/2006 3:24:08 PM PST by Cannoneer No. 4
I mean, it couldn't possibly be like Texans voting for Texans to represent them, could it? It is, after all, a parliamentary democracy, so people are going to vote for a representative who lives in the area, aren't they? Were there Kurds running to represent areas of Baghdad? Southern Shia standing for election up in Kurdistan?
Last time I checked, Texans and Californians weren't planting bombs in each other's shopping malls.
The Dubai port fiasco will come back to bite us. I will refrain from "I told you so's" when it happens, but I hope you will remember my words.
I won't. You're a better person than I am.
I'm not a better person, simply a lazier one. I don't like to waste my time.
By the way, I heartily recommend Fred Barnes' book Rebel-in-Chief. It explains a lot of the President's actions, and it is very interesting. The perfect conservatives won't like it, but it does explain the resoning behind a lot of things like "No Child Left Behind" and the Medicare prescription drug plan. Made me think about a lot of things I take for granted as far as political/governmental theory.
You this and you that. Bah.
You better get that letter writing campaign started to the DOD. We surely can't have UAE military fighting alongside our military against terrorists. Can't trust 'em.
If we shun them all, maybe they'll change, right? Because surely leading by example wouldn't do anything.
Oh, and let me know how you plan on the ME countries coming up to the 21st century goes, I guess they'll be following Russia's model? Africa's? Venezuela's? China's? India's? Just not ours, because we can't trust 'em, none of 'em to run a business in the US. Whose do you want them to follow?
Those opposing the port deal bandy about the globalist label as easily as those who support it do the racist label. Neither always fit.
It's more like bigotry, anyway.
Rookay, just how many of the UAE native born citizens -- not sons of imports, are fighting side by side of us in Iraq?
It is not perfectly normal to vote for someone of your ethnicity because you view other ethnicities as mortal enemies. These were the NATIONAL Iraqi elections, not for the school board. And they fell precisely along confessional lines because they are the only lines that really matter. I don't expect you or the other Dubai port deal apologists to be capable of recognizing that there is nothing 'transforming' about elections in a culture drenched in ethnic hate.
Fascinating about how you shift gears from "our great friends the UAE" to "be careful, now they will hurt us so we should have kept them happy" without any consciousness of contradiction or irony.
Lets lose all our allies and then lets see how hard the WOT is.
Isn't it funny how you Dubai port deal apologists babble about how 'racist' people are who opposed the deal while you go on and prattle about how Great White Father will use it to transform and enlighten his little brown children. There is another kind of racism you know, and it is your White Missionary assumption that every 'heathen' wants to be just like you. The arrogant, imperialist assumption that you have that level of moral and cultural influence over them.
We who opposed it do not flatter ourselves that we can change a culture that has no wish to be changed. We credit them with the ability to make their own choices and have their own agenda. So who, really, is the racist here ?
Thats not the transformation I'm talking about. Economic and social transformation is what is needed. Repressive regimes coupled with poverty is what breeds terrorism.
All you see is the oil money, quit thinking of how they get their money and focus on WHO gets the money.
Repressive regimes coupled with poverty breed terrorism ? Then why aren't terrorists streaming out of sub-Saharan Africa ? How can you talk such nonsense when every major country on this planet has a Salafist Islam-based security problem ? How can you talk such nonsense when most of the armed conflicts on this planet are "Militant Islam vs ...." ?
The effortless wealth of the Muslim world has allowed it to defer cultural modernization indefinitely. The Gulf States can Scandinavian levels of cradle to grave security without having to emancipate women or tolerate other religions or have freedom of inquiry to get there.
Terrorist are all over Africa where have you been?
Last time I checked the Lord's Resistance Army wasn't kidnapping school children in Beslan.
Sub Saharan African 'terrorism' is warlordism, brigandage, nothing like al-Qaeda.
Yes, those were national elections, just like elections in Britain are national elections. And guess what: in Yorkshire, they vote for Yorkshiremen!!! Amazing, but true!!
If you think AQ isn't all over Africa you're kidding yourself.
From Iraq, this is Sam the Sham reporting for CNN.
If we can't change hearts and minds, then we better get on with the killin'. There's lots of muslims out there. I suggest you start with the women and children.
Me? I'm all for giving them choices to choose from first. We may have to kill 'em all, but we aren't quite there yet.
You don't want them to have any choices. So who, really, is the bigot? What's that phrase? The soft bigotry of lowered expectations.
See, I think our way, as flawed as it may be at times, is the best way. That's what's great about America.
So yes, if they are going to have to follow some type of example, I do want it to be us, as opposed to many other countries around the world. And I'm not ashamed to admit it.
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