Posted on 01/01/2009 6:29:21 PM PST by CE2949BB
Washington, D.C.--The acts of war by Hamas against Israel are precisely what people should expect from Bush’s so-called democracy strategy in the Middle East.
The administration campaigned for elections in the strongholds of various Islamist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah, groups that it should have worked to destroy. In the Palestinian territories, Bush insisted that Hamas be allowed to participate in the 2006 elections--and the jihadist group won a landslide. Thanks to that political victory, Hamas gained an unearned legitimacy for its vicious war to exterminate Israelis and Westerners. Winning power with the aid of their enemy confirmed for these Islamists that the West will abet its own destroyers.
America’s self-defense entails crushing Islamic totalitarianism--not ushering its jihadists into political office and galvanizing them to redouble their war against us.
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Trying to bring democratic and representative reform to these nations is not a mistake. President Bush has also done alot to go after and kill thse who believe in the ideology of terrorism and dictatorship.
Both approaches must be going on simultaineously to win this war. At times this approach will work and at times it will also fail but it still must be done.
The Palestinians are waxing poetic about the good old days when Israelis controlled Gaza.
This report is garbage. Hamas and Sheikh Yassin have had legitimacy in the eyes of Gazans for a number of reasons including their support for the intifadah, the construction of clinics, their control of the education institutions in Gaza, and their opposition to the PLA support for the Oslo Accords. It is not up to the USA to wipe out Hamas and Hizbollah. Israel must take the lead on that score , and it is clear that the extirpation of both is not presently feasible.
This approach has also emboldened Mohammedans to attack and destroy Eastern Christian communities from the Balkans to the Iran/Iraq border.
If we are to win the war against a resurgent Islam, we need to be clear eyed about what has worked, what hasn’t and what price others have paid for our foreign policy mistakes. In the meantime, it pays to remember that in the past, the defeat of Islam has usually meant a fight to the death.
There’s no point in elections if terrorists win them.
“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.” - Churchill
At first I was ready to get all angry based on the title, but then I realized that this is really a criticism of us not being hardline enough. I agree. While we have no right to tell someone they can’t worship Allah, I have this huge worry about Islamic fascism getting a significant foothold in the civilized world. It must be crushed NOW. It deserves no respect.
The Law of Unintended Consequences, but the initial reactions are not always the same as the longer term results.
Oh, come on. Bush is a blithering idiot, period.
“Trying to bring democratic and representative reform to these nations is not a mistake.”
I agree it is not a mistake to try. But realistically, it will not often succeed. In the case of Iraq I believe it will devolve once more into a dictatorship when we leave.
I guess this is the reason for my disdain for the idea of making the world “safe for democracy”.
We should ONLY fight for reasons of self defense or for the defense of our allies. And when we do, we need to kick ass; none of this pissing away our soldiers like we did in Vietnam.
I think defense of the western world is reason enough. But we need to get aggressive with it. I seriously hope Israel doesn’t back down (yet again).
How long has this guy been out of work, anyway - just get out of the slammer, maybe?
I agree. But can you imagine the alternative — a blithering old fart.
Why, oh why, didn’t we have to “try to bring democracy” to Eastern European nations? Duh, and duh! Democracy in Arabia? What a laugh! The West never learns. Zimbabwe and the rest of Africa are such a smashing post-colonial success, ain’t they! Just like democracy in Detroit.
Amen to that. Letting Hanoi get away with placing anti-aircraft batteries on hospital rooftops is just one of the bad mistakes we made, a precedent nobody has the courage to break from now.
This doesn't mean we should just do nothing. It only means that we should think and try harder to understand the social, political, and economic structure of a society before pushing an idea. Also, perhaps we sometimes we need to take gradual approach that will not yield in a short term but can only be enjoyed in long term.
LOL the liberal approach is to sit on our butts and let them come and kill us all...
Yeah that will work.... Idiots... I guess 911 wasn’t enough... well what possibly can Obama say to the familys of Americans killed in the next attack on the Homeland?
“This doesn’t mean we should just do nothing. It only means that we should think and try harder to understand the social, political, and economic structure of a society before pushing an idea. Also, perhaps we sometimes we need to take gradual approach that will not yield in a short term but can only be enjoyed in long term.”
So you strongly disagree with this article then? After all, it advocates crushing islamic totalitarianism.
What a pile of feces. Elan Journo Is another of the blind that does “NOT” grasp the idea of democracy. Everyone, every group, and individual, has the right to representation. It does “NOT” give them the right to fire rockets into civilian populations. Then....to run and hide when the times comes for them to answer for their actions. But I forgot....this is the Islamic Extremists way of waging war. The only thing that makes these idiots understand is total obliviation. No hiding behind women and children, running into Mosques, or hiding under rocks as far as that goes. I don’t blame Israel one bit for making this point known, and felt, through out the Muslim arenas.
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