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Virtual War(Victor Davis Hanson)
National Review ^ | July 06, 2007 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 07/06/2007 5:26:07 AM PDT by kellynla

In the last two months, lunatic Islamic radicals have failed at weird mass murder plots at Fort Dix, New Jersey, and JFK Airport in New York. And now in Great Britain, more incompetent jihadists were foiled again — thanks to their inability to ignite flammable gas canisters.

Spanish tourists about the same time were butchered in Yemen by a suicide bomber. And, of course, al Qaeda and the Taliban daily try to kill as many Westerners as they can in Afghanistan and Iraq.

I’m sure next week there will be more stories of some poor Westerner or Middle East reformer butchered somewhere by some suicide bomber yelling in extremis “Allah Akbar.” That will be followed almost immediately by a warning from a Western minister not to assume such killing is in anyway connected to Islam.

There is much variety in the ways in which radical Muslim jihadists attack Westerners. Indeed, the collective West is like wandering Odysseus, not sure where the next hideous monster is coming from — an Islamist Calypso, Circe, Cyclops, Lotus-Eater, or Laistrygonian always around the next bend in New York, London, or Madrid.

We learn again that British Muslims, both subjects and aliens, want to blow up as many inside the U.K. as they can. Illegal aliens from Albania in the United States and visitors from Guyana and Trinidad wish to slaughter Americans on a grand scale. Sometimes an angry Iranian-American student wants to run over others on campus; sometimes a deranged Muslim immigrant murders those in shopping centers, or seeks out Jews to shoot or run down.

Some terrorists are petty criminals. Others are well-off doctors. Some work for al Qaeda; others freelance.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: islam; terrorism; terrorists; vdh; victordavishanson; wot
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Sooner or later we are going to have to give the muzzies the jihad they so desperately want. And this time, we'll finish the job.

Semper Fi, Kelly

1 posted on 07/06/2007 5:26:09 AM PDT by kellynla
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To: kellynla

I agree. To paraphrase Sherman, war is the remedy they want, and we should give it to them, no holds barred. To date we have been fighting with one hand only. And I don’t mean that to demean anything our guys have done around the world in the last six years.


2 posted on 07/06/2007 5:30:12 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: kellynla
"lunatic Islamic radicals"

Moon god worshiping death cultists.

3 posted on 07/06/2007 5:39:35 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Islam is the religion of violins, NOT peas.)
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To: kellynla

The triumph of hope.....over experience!


4 posted on 07/06/2007 5:40:41 AM PDT by cb
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To: kellynla
“But a common, though unspoken, assumption is simply that so far Western intelligence services, law enforcement, and the U.S. military have so infiltrated, thwarted, scattered, or killed off enough jihadists that for the moment the Islamists no longer possess the ability to kill thousands more Westerners.“

Those three words in bold... cannot be understated.

5 posted on 07/06/2007 5:43:58 AM PDT by johnny7 ("But that one on the far left... he had crazy eyes")
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To: johnny7

understated = overstated.


6 posted on 07/06/2007 5:45:04 AM PDT by johnny7 ("But that one on the far left... he had crazy eyes")
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To: Rummyfan
One more 9/11 type terrorists attack in America and every muzzie swinging dick will have to pack up his koran and family and go back to whatever hellhole they originated from.

Our ancestors didn’t risk life & limb to emigrate to this country just so a bunch of camel jockeys could come here, terrorize our women & children and make hamburger out of our families.

Semper Fi,
Kelly

7 posted on 07/06/2007 6:02:53 AM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: kellynla

Just last night, I was talking with someone who said we’d been bluffed into starting a Holy War. I replied, “A Holy War has been going on for decades. Just ask Israel about it.”


8 posted on 07/06/2007 6:07:27 AM PDT by randita
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To: randita

And the muzzies have never gotten over having their arses handed to them in the last Crusades.


9 posted on 07/06/2007 6:11:55 AM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: kellynla

Marine,

I am with you on this one. I may be an old broken down fly boy, but I am not afraid to risk my life to defend this country again. The tipping point is coming, time to stock up on weapons, ammo, and canned goods.

SMSgt Boomer


10 posted on 07/06/2007 7:03:16 AM PDT by KC-10A BOOMER (Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue)
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To: kellynla

The resolve required for that seems to be a long long way off.


11 posted on 07/06/2007 7:10:06 AM PDT by expatguy (Support - "An American Expat in Southeast Asia")
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To: randita
“A Holy War has been going on for decades. Just ask Israel about it.”

The Muslims have been expanding against non-Muslims since the 600's. We forget that at our peril. They invaded France in 714. They sacked Constantinople in 1453. They beseiged Vienna in 1683.

The Christian Crusades were started because the Muslims had taken Christian lands in the Middle East and were persecuting Christians. The Crusades were a defenseive action.

This entire pattern has never varried, only the pace changes. Sure, seeing how the Muslims approach Israel is instructive and is very much part of the picture -- but we cannot say that this starts in 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973 or what have you.

Islam is a warrior religion which seeks to kill or convert every human on the planet. Accomodation is not possible.

12 posted on 07/06/2007 7:33:57 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Progressives like to keep doing the things that didn't work in the past.)
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Islam is a warrior religion which seeks to kill or convert every human on the planet. Accomodation is not possible.

Agreed.

Because we are from a Judeo /Christian mindset it takes a long time to get that message.

Tony Blair never got it, and President Bush hasn't gotten it yet. - Tom

13 posted on 07/06/2007 7:52:48 AM PDT by Capt. Tom (Don't confuse the Bushies with the dumb Republicans - Capt. Tom)
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To: Rummyfan
To date we have been fighting with one hand only.

The state department has had hold of that hand since WWII, they will never let go. Either they go, or we die, simple as that.

14 posted on 07/06/2007 8:11:19 AM PDT by itsahoot (The GOP did nothing about immigration, immigration did something about the GOP (As Predicted))
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To: KC-10A BOOMER
I, {insert name here}, do solemnly swear, (or affirm), that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God. (Note that the last sentence is not required to be said if the speaker has a personal or moral objection)
15 posted on 07/06/2007 8:16:06 AM PDT by itsahoot (The GOP did nothing about immigration, immigration did something about the GOP (As Predicted))
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To: Capt. Tom
Tony Blair never got it, and President Bush hasn't gotten it yet. - Tom.

Mat 13:13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.


16 posted on 07/06/2007 8:21:45 AM PDT by itsahoot (The GOP did nothing about immigration, immigration did something about the GOP (As Predicted))
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To: kellynla
We are absolutely at war with these nutcases. We should start acting like it and ask all “guest” Muslims here to kindly go home. Then we should tell the heads of state of all Muslim nations to either handle this matter themselves or else we will handle it for them. Then proceed to nuke them off the planet.
17 posted on 07/06/2007 11:22:58 AM PDT by Heartland Mom (Build the fence, secure our borders, deport illegals - Protect our sovereignty!)
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Spanish tourists about the same time were butchered in Yemen by a suicide bomber.

Impossible! The Spanish voters pulled their country out of Iraq! Terrorists will never bother them again! How dare you print such lies?! /sarcasm.

18 posted on 07/06/2007 4:37:52 PM PDT by Zack Nguyen
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To: Zack Nguyen

bump.


19 posted on 07/06/2007 6:41:47 PM PDT by Zack Nguyen
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To: Rummyfan

“I agree. To paraphrase Sherman, war is the remedy they want, and we should give it to them, no holds barred. To date we have been fighting with one hand only.”

Either fight a war unrestrainedly, or don’t fight at all. That was the lesson of Vietnam. Unfortunately, Bush has already forgotten it, and the Rats didn’t learn that lesson. The lesson the left learned is that if Presidents don’t declare war and thus refuse that expanded constitutional ability to effectively prosecute traitors spewing sedition, the Executive can be almost entirely emasculated through media sniping.


20 posted on 07/06/2007 7:25:13 PM PDT by LibertarianInExile ("What a cruel reflection that a rich country cannot long be a free one." --Thomas Jefferson)
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