Posted on 12/12/2006 10:48:57 PM PST by Mrs Ivan
Did you notice that some Reublicans in that interview has no clue either? Ignorance of foreign affairs and the Islamic enemy is not an exclusive Dhimmi-crat trait. Quite a few Republicans are asses too when it comes to their knowledge of these important topics. Sigh!
Maybe so, but it wasn't Republicans nominating an idiot to a chair position.
This is really trite. What does it matter? They are Muslims. Both hate America. Both want to expel Israel from the Mideast. Both carry out the same crimes against non Muslims. It's like asking what's the difference between Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. The important thing to look for in our elected officials is to find out what side are they on.
Good catch! You should run for congress!
Thats why I say GW should put the Demons to the test and refuse to sign any bill that doesn't have true bipartisan support.
This is a subject that requires people to read books and papers. But apparently their staffs don't read books either.
Appreciate your insight on the current various fighting groups (since I would flunk the test also).
Maybe part of the real strategy in Iraq is to "ignore" the "civil war." Seems it would work...let them fight each other instead of allied troops.
If everyone would read FR daily, they'd be well informed on just about everything, and a lot sooner than if they went elsewhere for knowledge. I learn more here than I do practically anywhere else.
Well, the difference between the Sunnis and Shi'ites is this: The Sunnis want to kill us all with terrorist attacks, and the Shi'ites want to kill us all with nuclear weapons.
Interesting article some time back in the Naval Institute Proceedings--the author argued that Arab civilization is in the midst of a collapse, and gave a bunch of metrics to support his thesis.
"You know education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Congress."
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Take care of those kids and blessings to you for it.
With a world full of very serious enemies of the U.S. I expect it will though she will probably never be held to account.
"let them fight each other instead of allied troops."
That would be nice, except we now seem to be suffering 10 soldiers dead each day. I seem to recall when it was more like 10 a week.
Tom Clancy's book "Shadow Warriors", a factual account of Special Forces, has a very good long chapter on "The Lebanon Tragedy." I strongly recommend this book to anyone who wants a better understanding of what works, and with this specific chapter, what some of our problems in the Middle East. One example is the fact that our intelligence capability in Lebanon was wiped out twice. Once when our embassy was bombed killing a lot of intelligence staff, and secondly when the head of local CIA was captured, presumably tortured, and his contacts killed or disappeared. He was also never found alive or perhaps not at all. We have really been blind intelligence wise for some time in that part of the world and it shows.
Arab civilization may be in the middle of collapse, but Islam has spread far beyond the Arab world. Even in the Middle East you have the Iranians who are Persian not Arab. Also not Arab are the large Muslim populations of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Indonesia, to name a few.
An important factor in the Protestant Reformation struggles was that dissenting groups had American to move to. Large numbers of religious "refugees" came here from Germany, Scotland, England, and Ireland. The ultimate conclusion was that the only way we could have a free country was for us to have universal FREEDOM OF RELIGION. These people had suffered the worst ravages of intolerance, and fortunately our leaders had the good sense to decide to leave religion out of politics. What Islam will do with the same fighting and intolerance we have yet to see.
They do not have a wide open frontier to escape to as existed in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Will they ever learn that the only way for multiple interpretations of the same, or different religions to survive in a country is to have RELIGIOUS FREEDOM? Unfortunately, it doesn't look like this is going to happen any time soon. I just hope we can manage to keep our t.. out of the wringer while all this is going on.
Anyone here reside in Alabama 4th district? Everett only reads e-mail from his own constituants, so I can't berate him for his incopetence.
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