C'mon over, Tony...you're welcome here...and we'll treat you a darned sight better than a dog!!!
These bastids are in about 10 different countries in the world. Even in Indonesia and the Philippines.
The problem is we are not fighting a country or an alliance. We are fighting a religion.
An apt description of what we could do. In Richard Rhodes' book about the making of the hydrogen bomb, he quotes a witness to the first test shot (the "Mike" shot) as saying that it felt "like opening a the door to a blazing hot oven right in front of your face." That witness was standing on the deck of a ship 30 miles from ground zero.
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The US is the most militarily powerful nation that ever strode the face of the earth.
AMERICA could have turned a large chunk of the world into a parking lot. That it didn't is a sign of strength.
We couldn't have said it better. Our patience with the rhotomontades at the UN and the running dogs of a liberalism that demeans the very word is growing thin. The UN can either be part of the solution or part of the problem.
Today, the UN sits in furious irrelevancy, filed with putrescence and bile at America's ability to act where it will not. The UN today has no more power or will to oppose tyranny than did the League of Nations when Hailieh Selassie stood before them asking aid against Mussolini's poison-gas using invation of his country. The members of the UN with the ability to pay for a military that could project power are too timorous, those who would if they could are ususally the enemies of freedom. Bah!
If the UN fails to act, we must. Will it take another major attack on the US or one of the European Powerlettes (since they can no longer be considered great powers in the traditional sense)? Then, those who have demanded restraint of us will 'cry havoc,' demanding that we 'release the dogs of war' -- and we will: and millions will die who did not need to had we but acted now. Make no mistake. Radical Islam will not prevail. The question is but whether some form of the religion will become peaceful enough to survive or, if not, whether its present adherents will choose to disappear with it.
Thank you for your kind words but personally, I don't deserve them, not if restraint in the face of attack is something to be admired. I feel no restraint. You say be glad America did not "push the button" on the dancing Palestinians? That's because certain Americans, me for instance, don't have access to that button. If I had it, I'd push it. I'd have pushed it on September 11th. Today it is 367 days later. I'm still just as furious, perhaps more so. All ten of my fingers itch for that button.
Tell your wretched countrymen that I have heard every craven word they've uttered against me, and the kid-brother American whose admiration that they have always been so confident of has grown up and seen his own slaughtered. Speaking for myself, I am not bound to England by blood or culture.
The England I admired, the England of George Eliot, Jane Austen, the Brontes, it's gone. What's left is a wet wedge of land full of sniveling socialists with incredibly bad teeth, and I feel nothing for any of you. Stay out of my way. If many Americans are beginning to feel like I feel you'll find that resting complacently on our good will is not as safe as it used to be. I'm looking out at the world and my eyes are not filmed over with any misty sentiment about the common humanity of all. No, I look out and I see a pack of jackals sitting just beyond the campfire's edge, licking their chops hungrily, waiting for us to fall asleep. And don't think we don't know it.
Time to resurrect this post! This is what we are fighting for. May God bless and protect our troops.
NEVER FORGET!!
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