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Prepare for a Long War Against the Islamic State
Townhall.com ^ | August 13, 2014 | Jonah Goldberg

Posted on 08/13/2014 9:36:32 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Parley Baer

Yes indeed. With Obama welcoming his cohorts in the Muslim Brotherhood into the White Hut, with Obama and his Rama lama ding dong dinners, with Obama and his anti-Christian/pro muslim rhetoric, with Obama and his open borders allowing God knows how many muzzies in, with etc. etc....

We will soon have issues like Europe now faces with riots and everything.


21 posted on 08/13/2014 10:00:37 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Kaslin
It's only a long war because it's not being fought as a war. You don't need to have a General Patton mentality to strategize on how to get it done.

But you need the will to do it and the guts, something this country sadly lacks.

22 posted on 08/13/2014 10:01:43 AM PDT by Paulie (Get off the grid.)
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To: Graewoulf

Logically, under the separation of powers doctrine, officers of the court like lawyers (GWB was an MBA, I know) should be barred from both the Legislative and the Executive branches.


23 posted on 08/13/2014 10:03:57 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fiction)
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To: Kaslin

No thanks to current and past “leadership”.


24 posted on 08/13/2014 10:04:29 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Exactly. We need to change our expectations.

Civilians will die. Children will die. Innocents will die.

In order to beat an “idea” you need to give them a better idea. You need to allow them the freedom to worship who they want. But...and this is the but we are missing—the second they try to impose their will on others, they feel the wrath of everyone.

But that will never happen until our civilization has become so uncivilized that we have no choice.

What is more likely is that the US, as it’s formed today, will lose the birthdate race. Europe will cease to exist as it is in twenty years. We are a couple of decades behind them.


25 posted on 08/13/2014 10:04:31 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
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To: Kaslin
"And, so far, nobody has a good answer for what to do about it."

Some people aren't listening:


26 posted on 08/13/2014 10:05:15 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The GOP-e scum enlisted Democrats to steal the Republican primary. The GOP-e can go to Hell.)
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To: Vermont Lt

Birthdate= birth rate.


27 posted on 08/13/2014 10:06:18 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
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To: cuban leaf

War against Islam (which is necessarily terrorist, superiorist, and totalitarian) will be going on long after I’m dead, and I’m 52.


28 posted on 08/13/2014 10:06:55 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The GOP-e scum enlisted Democrats to steal the Republican primary. The GOP-e can go to Hell.)
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To: Graewoulf

Why do you consider Shock and Awe to be a boondoggle?


29 posted on 08/13/2014 10:14:40 AM PDT by patro
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To: cuban leaf

It took the Brits from 1835 until 1871 to exterminate the Thugee Cult of India. I don’t see this as being any different. It’s going to take several decades to eradicate the feral beasts.


30 posted on 08/13/2014 10:20:11 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Unarmed people cannot defend themselves. America is no longer a Free Country.)
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To: Kaslin

It doesn’t have to be a long war. Just. . . take the handcuffs off, ignore the Press and the Euros and the whiny Libprogs, and let the troops to the voodoo, that they do, so well.

We don’t go in to win hearts and minds. We go in to kill the enemy, and let God sort them out. . .


31 posted on 08/13/2014 10:22:32 AM PDT by Salgak (Peace through Superior Firepower. . . .)
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To: Petrosius; Kaslin

I totally agree. But certain Islamic allies of the west would absolutely resist. So, a starting point & one way to do it could be to get key Islamic countries (Turkey, S. Arabia, Indonesia, all the Gulf Sheikhdoms, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia) to actively take part in fighting the current IS situation in Iraq. I mean beyond words. After 9/11 all I can recall is the US, Britain & really only western countries & their leaders condemned the act & tried to differentiate between moderate vs radical, militant, etc Islam. The Islamic leaders mostly & publicly remained silent. I found that very strange.


32 posted on 08/13/2014 10:25:09 AM PDT by odds
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To: muir_redwoods
officers of the court like lawyers (GWB was an MBA, I know) should be barred from both the Legislative and the Executive branches.

At least 25 of our 44 presidents have been lawyers.

33 posted on 08/13/2014 10:27:24 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (Perception wins all the battles. Reality wins all the wars.)
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To: DannyTN

“It would be shorter if we would quit funding them. We need a strong advocate of Israel in the White House.”

Precise, and totally correct.


34 posted on 08/13/2014 10:30:10 AM PDT by kitkat (STORM HEAVEN WITH PRAYERS FOR OUR COUNTRY)
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To: Kaslin
It is a long war, and it doesn't help that due to political correctness on our part, we do not define what we are fighting against, or use every weapon at our disposal. We are fighting islam, nothing more or less.

GWB started us off on the wrong track, by claiming that Islam is a religion of peace. Yes, he knew it wasn't, but he seemed to think that we could convert the violent jihadis to a more benign form and declare victory, without having to confront the billion muslims directly. I think we have now seen enough evidence that that will not work.

The only thing that will stop the jihad is when the muslims lose faith. The only thing that will make them lose faith is to confront the religion of islam. It is the least defendable of religions, and only gets by on thuggery. Make jihadis confront islam. Fighting them with arms while telling them that we respect their religion and that their religion is valid doesn't work.

35 posted on 08/13/2014 10:31:12 AM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: BuffaloJack

The campaign against the Thugee lasted from 1822 to 1841.

http://www.unexplainedstuff.com/Secret-Societies/The-Thuggee.html


36 posted on 08/13/2014 10:32:52 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (Perception wins all the battles. Reality wins all the wars.)
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To: Kaslin
The key event in starting this world war - for that is what it nearly is now and the Islamic combatants are very open about their intention of forcing - was Western dependence on Saudi oil and a sense on the part of very wealthy oil magnates that Islamic charity included financial support for jihad. This preceded the state support for Shi'ite Islamism on the part of Iran by a couple of decades, but the effect was the same in both cases: an incredible amount of money in the hands of Islamic fascists (I prefer Bush's locution as well).

It took a long time to get a handle on the oil dependency but we're nearly there, no thanks to the current administration. But four decades of funding and propaganda support for this, and the Soviets as well had a lion's share of the blame, have left the world with too much money and too many weapons in the hands of burn-the-world religious psychotics.

There is simply no negotiation possible. These are not reasonable people, they can't be bought off with concessions, they can't be lived with. One of the principal advantages of the Iraq conflict was that we could choose the ground on which to fight them. That we gave up for the illusion of peace.

At the moment they have the inestimable advantage of military initiative - they get to choose the where and when of the fight. If U.S. strategists have determined that a foreign field is too difficult and expensive, then we must accept that the fight will be on our grounds and their terms, and prepare for that. Because they want a fight and have the means to force one, as we see before us now.

37 posted on 08/13/2014 10:38:57 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: clintonh8r

JC will be back shortly to finish the job...


38 posted on 08/13/2014 10:46:48 AM PDT by felixandbowinkle (let irritations pass and become truly happy and strong..fhu.com!)
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To: Kaslin

If America has a Sulla, he should step up to the plate.

It’s time to eliminate our 21st C. Mithridates.


39 posted on 08/13/2014 10:53:07 AM PDT by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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To: Kaslin

So do I, also I believe we are going to get hit right here at home and soon, and I believe it will be much more than shooting up a mall.
They want to hit us and make a statement, more in line like 9-11 was suppose to be, but parts of it fell apart.
They will nuke us if they can pull it off, mass destruction and death is their goal.


40 posted on 08/13/2014 10:53:39 AM PDT by reefdiver (The fool says there is no God. And the bigger fools sees direct evidence and rages against it.)
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