Well, not all. I believe all those bombs and murders in England and Ireland were the work of Protestants and Catholics. And don't forget our home-grown Christian terrorists.
Myth #2: Profiling is an evil to be avoided at all costs.
We just have to tiptoe that fine line between due diligence and extra inspection based on a consistent (this is where the drug war lost it) set of known profiles, and treating an innocent citizen as if he were a criminal just because of ethnicity.
Myth #3: Part of the FBI's failure on September 11th was lack of Arab or Muslim agents.
Wrong target. I'd say it was a lack of Muslim CIA operatives. The cells were already formed to be set up in the U.S., so I doubt having more Muslim domestic agents would have done us much good. We needed to nail those suckers at the source.
Myth #4: We must ally the "moderate" Muslims.
Yes, we must. This is a basic fact. There's no way we can go to war with 1,000,000,000 Muslims and expect to win. We have to get the vast majority to live peacefully with us and help put pressure on those who won't.
Yes, we must. This is a basic fact. There's no way we can go to war with 1,000,000,000 Muslims and expect to win.
Such a war would last decades, cause catastrophic destruction, and be a great mistake. Unfortuanately, so much is about letting off steam these days, rather than making the best choices for action.
Terrorism in this case refers to the present, indisputable, overwhelming (after 9/11) Islamic threat. But you knew that, didn’t you?
Myth #2: Profiling is an evil to be avoided at all costs.
We just have to tiptoe that fine line between due diligence and extra inspection based on a consistent (this is where the drug war lost it) set of known profiles, and treating an innocent citizen as if he were a criminal just because of ethnicity.
We are currently treating all innocent citizens as if they were criminals, for fear of “discriminating” against those who obviously, by ethnicity or actions, merit inspection. If a crime were committed on your block, I’m sure you’d approve if the police arrested the whole neighborhood, rather than discriminate.
Myth #3: Part of the FBI's failure on September 11th was lack of Arab or Muslim agents.
Wrong target. I'd say it was a lack of Muslim CIA operatives. The cells were already formed to be set up in the U.S., so I doubt having more Muslim domestic agents would have done us much good. We needed to nail those suckers at the source.
So you don’t believe that attempting to infiltrate cells, many of which are suspected by experts to be affiliated with Saudi-funded mosques in the U.S., is worth the effort? And you are so naïve to believe that these “cells” are not capable of acting on their own, or spiriting money and materials into this country, on their own? As far as “sources” go, our border-protection and immigration policies are so lax, we can’t even be certain of our ability to prevent the “sources” from settling right here in the good ol’ USA.
Myth #4: We must ally the "moderate" Muslims.
Yes, we must. This is a basic fact. There's no way we can go to war with 1,000,000,000 Muslims and expect to win. We have to get the vast majority to live peacefully with us and help put pressure on those who won't.
What the author is referring to here is our lack of ability, or willingness, to identify “moderate” Muslims, as evidenced by the administration’s alliances with radical American muslim groups and leaders. In the area of states, we ally ourselves with Saudi Arabia, a nation to which all roads of terrorism lead. No, we can’t go to war with a billion Muslims, but when we refuse to take the politically and fiscally correct blinders off, we create a situation where “moderate” Muslims are given no voice, while militant Islam flourishes under these so-called leaders.
Your "Christian" comment is just stupid. From the assassination of Robert Kennedy to the Olympic murders in Munich to the attempt to kill the Pope to the Achille Lauro to the murder of 80 tourists at Luxor to every attack during the Clinton administration...MUSLIMS, radical, insane, 70 virgin-lusting MUSLIMS have been the murderers. There are even muslim tenacles to the McVeigh bombing, so take your disinformation back over to wherever you slithered out of and give us some credit for common sense.
Well, not all. I believe all those bombs and murders in England and Ireland were the work of Protestants and Catholics. And don't forget our home-grown Christian terrorists.
Think a little bit here ....
Your comment doesn't make sense - or, inverting it - YOUR comment shows EXACTLY WHY profiling works, and is ESSENTIAL.
In North Ireland -- EVRY bomb against Protestants was FROM the young, white, CATHOLIC males - who happened to be in the IRA.
So, IN IRELAND, to attack the IRA, you MUST investigate FIRST young, white CATHOLIC males. You must profile for your target.
In the US, there have been no bombs against Protestants, and so there is NO CAUSE to profile against white catholic males --- HERE. There have been no bombs against catholics HERE, so there is no cause to investigate or profile white male protestants ... except by Reno, who attacks them based on a few superious abortion bombings. (Reno, in this, only hates white male conservative Christians.)
EVERY recent suicide airplane, truck, and building bombing and crash WORLDWIDE has been due to an organized islamic male attack..... No exception - even the suicide crash of the Egyptian Air plane outside of NY City last year was due to the deliberate crash by the islamic male co-pilot.
(Every case of recent political corruption is by a democrat, so we must remove democrats (black and white, male and female, from office to attack corruption and bribery and vote theft.)
So, by your logic, we must profile Islamic males if we are to track down abortion ring bombers, and must track down white male catholics if we are looking for airplane hijackers.