Posted on 07/23/2006 2:32:30 AM PDT by KarinG1
Rats. I was hoping it was my firewall that was blocking it.
Suffice it to say that the entire series is pretty funny, unless and until you look at it as an allegory for the current geopolitical situation where the Snow Goons are the terrorists and C&H are the EU.
Shalom.
L
Unfortunately that includes Freerepublic... Fenian trolls!
Then why would they be members of the Arab league? You'll notice Iran, which denotes itself as non-Arab is not a member, yet Egypt and Syria are.
The current members of the Arab League (and the date of their admission):
According to an Iraqi historian I read, it was Napoleon who imposed the idea that they are all Arabs. Part of getting the Middle East healthy is splitting up this false identity and letting them regain their own separate histories and identities that go back thousands of years. Maybe you saw the article yesterday dating Egyptian civilization to 10,000 BC.
Thanks for the ping, Pokey, and bump for later reading!
"Part of getting the Middle East healthy is splitting up this false identity "
So it's done by simply declaring Syrians and Egyptians aren't Arabs?
I've googled for the last half hour and found tons of references to Egyptian Arabs but none that Egyptians are not Arabs. Either there is an ethnic arabic community imbedded among 'regular' egyptians, or your statement is in the service of someone's agenda. I'd welcome an authoritative cite in opposition.
"We are not fighting so that you will offer us something. We are fighting to eliminate you."
So it should be our policy to eliminate them - no Gitmo, no trials under the UCMJ or in criminal courts. Elimination!
Thanks for the ping!
Oh they are nuts, on many levels!
There are no words to describe my utter contempt for Kofi Annan and the UN! Can we start a taxpayer protest - no taxes paid as long as we support the UN?
Holy crap!
Arab self-rule was an interregnum from the beginning. Al Qaeda's bleary adherents long for a slice of time between the Arab conquest of the Middle East and the Seljuk Turks' taking it away from them five centuries later. Somehow the invincible power of Allah fell then, as it is falling now, to the ones with the bigger divisions.
The principal difference between then and now is that technology has given more destructive power into fewer hands, so much so that a core of fanatics wields a power proportionate to their threats, not their actual ability. This is a scenario custom-made for a despot. Of course in a straight fight the U.S. would wipe Iran from the map, and so would Russia and China. There will be no straight fight. There will be blackmail and intimidation, terror and propaganda, and one by one the weak will surrender because fighting under the conditions presented to them is futile. And many, especially but not exclusively on the left, will applaud the grand pageant until they are no longer spectators and no longer capable of becoming fighters.
That's what this is all about. Anyone dismissing the War On Terror as flailing against an abstraction is comforting him- or herself. Terror states and proxy armies aren't abstractions at all.
One thing that stands out - Steyn is right as far as he goes (as usual). The Europeans and even some of the Arabs recognize that there's a problem other than Israel that needs dealt with. The really big question is whether they'll still remember that six months from now, when the problem is no longer front page news.
I'm betting they won't.
<< .... when bombs went off in Bali killing hundreds of tourists plus local waiters and barmen, Bruce Haigh, an Aussie former "diplomat" in Indonesia, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, had no doubt where to put the blame. As he told Australia's Nine Network: "The root cause of this issue has been America's backing of Israel on Palestine."
Suppose this were true -- that terrorists blew up Oz honeymooners and Scandinavian stoners in Balinese nightclubs because of "the Palestinian question." Doesn't this suggest that these people are, at a certain level, nuts? After all, there are plenty of IRA sympathizers around the world (try making the Ulster Unionist case in a Boston bar) and yet they never thought to protest British rule in Northern Ireland by blowing up, say, German tourists in Thailand. >>
Even in Aussie the only folks taking the gummint dole are those too damned stupid to be skule teechahs and jernolists. But, no doubt about it, islamanazis are that damned (and even slightly more so than the bloody "ira" and its potato-brained supporters) brutishly mentally deranged.
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I suppose an argument could be made that Egyptians are Africans but I'm not so sure about Syrians.
From now on I shall drop the word 'arab' entirely when discussing the issue.
One thing is for sure, though. There is still no such thing as a 'palestinian.'
L
"Anyone dismissing the War On Terror as flailing against an abstraction is comforting him- or herself. Terror states and proxy armies aren't abstractions at all."
James Carville in support panties, Eleanor Clift, played that card on the week's McLaughlin Group. She said Hezbollah is like terrorism in that it is an idea and thus cannot be defeated.
Under those lights, Israel should just give up, which is what the Clift/Buchanans seem to be saying.
How about you just use your head? In the seventh century, Mohammed led a small group of nomads out of Arabia to conquer the Middle East, North Africa and Spain. The conquerors were Arabs. The people who were conquered were Egyptians, Syrians, Spanish, and Persians etc. You keep being stubborn, but I'll bet you wouldn't be insisting that Spanards are Arabs. During the Inquisition, Ferdinand and Isabella expelled the Moors and Jews from Spain. Obviously, they could tell the difference. So could you. If not, you would see no difference between Jews and Arabs in Palestine. Mohammed conquered Jerusalem, too.
One would think balkanizing what Arabs themselves consider to be Arabs is less likely to produce stability in the region. Using my head doesn't leave me enamored of a bridge to the 12th century.
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