Posted on 08/12/2002 3:53:53 PM PDT by TLBSHOW
US may seize Arab airports by force to attack Iraq: report
Mon Aug 12 2002 14:19:02 ET
BEIRUT, Aug. 12 (Xinhua)--Lebanon received a report from diplomatic sources saying that the United States would seize by force several airports in Arab states when it launches a war against Iraq, the An Nahar newspaper reported on Monday.
The report said that US President George W. Bush would unleash the military offensive in January 2003 as he has to wait the outcome of the midterm elections of the Congress in November. ``Bush prefers to have Arab support for his war to remove Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and the US forces would have facilities in several neighboring Arab airports,'' the report said.
''At any rate,'' it stressed, ``once zero hour comes, Bush will give the orders to use Arab airports by force for the military operation against Iraq if the need arises.'' Bush argued that without the US interference, the Arab countries, the Arab League and the UN Security Council would not have been able to oust the invading Iraqi troops from Kuwait in the 1991 Gulf War.
Meanwhile, the report revealed that the Bush administration has allowed Israel to strike back in the upcoming confrontation against Iraq if the Arab country fires Scud missiles at Israel like it did in 1991.
The report suggested that the Arab world should take the US war preparations against Iraq ``very seriously'' and recommended a diplomatic offensive by Lebanon to consolidate Pan-Arab camp.
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Don't let them fool you. Osama hates us only because we are the infidel. We are hated because we are Judeo-Christian based society and they can't handle that. We are hated because we are not Muslim. Did you notice who it is in the world that hates us the most? The Muslims.
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Actually they would all conclude that being decimated in a war was Allah's will for them so they could prove to Allah their commitment to defeat the infidel. In other words, they would not learn the lesson a normal person would learn from being soundly defeated. They would just look at it as another chapter in the ever enduring Jihad. Seriously, this is the kind of peoples you are dealing with. If you want to destroy your enemy, then they all have to be killed or converted to another religion. There is a reason why Turkey is the only Islamic society that is half way manageable- Islam is generally too militant to manage outside a theocracy.
My father told me when he was a kid, he ran up and told his Dad, "Daddy, Daddy, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. If they win this war, we will be buying Japanese radios, Japanese Cars,..."
Osama did not hijack Islam. Otherwise, he would have had to hijack one hundred million people through out the world, teach thousands of clerics and Mullahs to teach his militant Islam, etc. Do you see the problem with that premise? No, Islam hijacked Osama and made him what he is today. It is from the pages of the Koran, the holy book of Islam, that Osama has found his calling in life.
Having said that, the only way that Islam can be defeated is either (A) you destroy Islam in its entirety and outlaw it everywhere (and that is not going to happen), or (B) Jehovah comes on the scene and proves to the Muslims of the world that Allah is not so great after all. There are those that believe (B) is going to happen real soon now. See http://www.glorywatch.com/russiawatch.htm
But they don't consider us unclean infidels, nor does their religion require us to be killed if we don't convert to their own.
Brilliant! Once we've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow. Unfortunately, violence can't be the only tool we use. We need a carrot too.
Of course once we've plowed Iraq, Iran, "Palestine," and Saudi Arabia, et al, under, I'm guessing any remaining Muslims might still not think of us as pals.
Well, geopolitics is a little more complicated than that. We're not going to plow under Iran, Palestine or Saudi Arabia, but we can do a whole heck of a lot to ensure that the current despots get beheaded by "spontaneous" mobs.
Sorry, there are no parallels between the Second World War and radical Islam. We ain't fighting a conventional industrialized power. This "war" (using the term loosely) is as much psychological, economic, educational and political as it is military.
There are major parallels. Postwar Germany and Japan have had civil governments, which prevented any radicals from renewed interest in war with the US.
Why did they do so? Because they knew their "political" survival depended on it.
They used "education" to convince their citizens, that cooperation with the US was beneficial.
The US used "economics" to reinforce the power of force and might.
Finally, the whole package comes together as a powerful, persuasive "psycholigical" manipulation.
For the whole thing to work, first they had to be defeated militarily. Get the chickens and eggs in order, okay?
You are naive to contend that arabs/muslims will respond to reason more than they will respond to force.
Just like popping a nasty zit. Ahhhh.
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