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In an effort to advance a lasting peace between the Israeli and Palestinian peoples, the Israeli government relinquished the Gaza strip to the Palestinian Authority. The Palestinians reciprocated by electing a terrorist group to political power that feigned the inability to intervene as militant Hamas and Hezbollah, along with myriad other homegrown terrorist organizations, launched rockets into Israeli cities and kidnapped Israeli soldiers. Now, Israel has had enough and there is war in the Middle East.
Only the naïve can continue to argue that the conflict currently taking place in the Middle East is between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
The Syrian government, led by a known terrorist enabler, President Bashar al-Assad, is actively aiding militant Hamas in its aggression against Israel. And as progress is made deciphering documents captured during the Iraqi liberation it is looking more likely that Syria had much to do with those non-existent WMD stockpiles of Saddam Hussein’s becoming “non-existent.”
The Lebanese-based terrorist group Hezbollah is not only supported by the Iranian government, it doesn’t make a move without the malevolent nod of the Iranian mullahs. To that extent, Israel’s Foreign Ministry has reported that the terror group was actively trying to relocate the kidnapped Israeli soldiers to Iran, a move that should immediately be rejected if Iran was not fully invested in the conflict.
Further, only the interminably stupid can continue to claim that this conflict is about land or any instituted US policy in the Middle East.
It is now clearer than ever that the hostilities taking place in the Middle East are based in a conflict of ideology jockeyed by religious fanatics hell-bent on world domination. In the case of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, any provocation leading to bloody conflict is a step toward facilitating the coming of the 12th Imam, the Mahdi, Armageddon.
Recently, Ahmadinejad rejected demands by the US, the United Nations and the European Union that he respond to a proposed package of incentives and conciliations by the middle of July. He instead insisted that no statement would be forthcoming until August 22nd. Coincidentally, August 22nd corresponds to the Islamic date of Rajab 28. This is the date that Saladin, a 12th Century Islamic warrior, conquered and entered Jerusalem. Accepting this information in conjunction with Ahmadinejad’s stated goal, to see Israel “wiped from the face of the earth,” – along with the fact that many experts believe Iran will have or already has nuclear capability – and his intentions are all too clear.
Radical Islamists are continuing a centuries-long war on anything and everything that does not kow-tow to their psychotic and intolerant version of religion. One need only look as far as Osama bin Laden’s continued reference to the liberation of Andalusia, or al-Andalus, from Islamic rule in 1492 to validate this fact. For radical Islam, the conflict has never ceased.
Whereas the 15th Century jihadis were limited in the extent of the damage they could cause in their pursuit of global domination, modern-day weapons arsenals have grown substantially and are a bona fide threat to the world. From the use of terrorism – suicide bombers, car bombs and the occasional mortar round – to the proficient manipulation of the mainstream media propaganda machine, advanced conventional weapons and now, potentially, weapons of mass destruction, those who blindly follow radical Islam now stand at a point in time where they will soon have the capability to bring about a nuclear Armageddon.
Meanwhile, anti-war activists, the progressive-left and opportunistic politicians maintain their assertions that Islam is a religion of peace, even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Comparing those who were in denial of the Nazi threat in the 1930’s to those who insist that Islam is a religion of peace is not a stretch. Rationalizing the use of terrorism by depicting terrorists as “freedom fighters” and “patriots” – as has been done by the intellectually stunted Michael Moore, Susan Sarandon, Cindy Sheehan and Sean Penn – exemplifies denial and ignorance of history, exactly like the Neville Chamberlains of the Nazi Era.
The world stands on the brink of world war and the battle lines could not be more evident: The Munich Olympic Massacres of 1972; the Iranian hostage crisis; the assassination of Anwar Sadat; the bombings of the US Embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut; the 1985 hijacking of a TWA flight from Athens to Rome; the Achille Lauro hijacking; the 1985 airport attacks in Rome and Vienna; the bombing of TWA flight 840 in Greece; the kidnapping and murder of U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel W. Higgins; the 1991 assassination of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi; the 1992 Bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Argentina; the initial 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, the 1995 bombing of the Egyptian Embassy compound in Islamabad, Pakistan; the bombing of the Khobar Towers; the 1997 Tourist Killings in Egypt; the 1998 bombing of the US Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya; the attack on the USS Cole; the September 11th 2001 attacks; the train bombings in Spain; the July 11th London train bombings; and most recently the terrorist bombings in India. All of these brutal acts of the cowardice that is unprovoked terrorism have one thing in common; they were all perpetrated in the name of Allah by radical Islamist extremists.
Now that nuclear weapons are fast becoming part of the threat, it is time to reject the idiocy of political correctness. It is time that those of the fifth column, both here in the United States and abroad, start to accept the undeniable fact that the world is facing a global conflict that pits the free world against those who embrace a radical Islamic ideology.
As Israel engages in war against Syria, Lebanon and Iran, their very existence hanging in the balance, we would be wise to understand that victory for those who champion freedom is not certain. It is possible that we could lose this war and nuclear capable Islamic regimes don’t do anything to tip the scales in our favor.
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Options for U.S. Limited As Mideast Crises Spread
Why August 22?
Andalusia
Significant Terrorist Incidents, 1961-2003: A Brief Chronology
July 14, 2006 - 10:17 AM on July 14th, 2006
Here’s an idea. Instead of cheerleading from the sidelines, why don’t all you pro-war hawks get off your fat asses, join the US army or move to Israel and fight your hated Islamic enemies face to face??
You like War so much, why not participate in it?
I am sick to death of you pro-war people who do nothing but talk shit. YOu want a fight? Well go fucking fight it. Stop talking about it. Do it.
July 14, 2006 - 10:42 AM on July 14th, 2006
Well San Fran….all I have to say about this to you is that you and your liberal friends need to wake up. Good must fight evil or the world as we know it will end.
I can’t believe you actually ranted on this one. How many innocent deaths does it take to convince you? How many? Are you ready to bow down and worship Allah just to stay alive?
We don’t like war but we are fighting. We are fighting for freedom and it would be really, really helpful if we didn’t have such opposition about it from the other side.
July 14, 2006 - 10:53 AM on July 14th, 2006
4 years in the United States Navy bitch.
Don’t ever talk shit about my service.
July 14, 2006 - 11:12 AM on July 14th, 2006
“4 years in the United States Navy bitch.”
Well, why not give her another 4, man!
We all know the US Military has been lowering its admission standards…re-enlist and take your anger and hatred of Muslims to new levels!
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“Good must fight evil or the world as we know it will end.”
See, THIS is why your side takes on more than it can handle. You see everything in black and white, good vs. evil.
That’s not how the real world works.
You thought the good vs. evil thing was in your favor in Iraq, but now look at you. The US is hated more than ever.
If we’re the “good guys” in your eyes, why does the rest of the world FEAR and hate us so much?
It’s never as easy as you say it is.
July 14, 2006 - 11:18 AM on July 14th, 2006
San Fran. So I guess I can assume that you would bow down and worship Allah to save your sorry ass?
You go right ahead. I for one decline.
July 14, 2006 - 11:19 AM on July 14th, 2006
As for fighting them, I am way too old to join the military and I do not wish to fight them out of my back door.
July 14, 2006 - 11:50 AM on July 14th, 2006
“So I guess I can assume that you would bow down and worship Allah to save your sorry ass?”
Not at all. I know better than to believe in a god.
But you are OVERREACTING…nobody is going to make you worship Allah for Christ’s sake!! Nobody is invading America! The only people doing the invading is US!!
Your side is greatly overestimating the abilities of our enemies.
I swear to god, some of you people on the Right are SO AFRAID of terrorism…the odds of anything happening to you and your loved ones is SO SMALL it’s hardly worth considering.
Your political leaders WANT you to be afraid and to stay afraid.
You are more malleable when you are scared. You are more willing to give them more when you are afraid.
I, for one, am not afraid and I won’t give up SHIT for a the illusion of safety.
July 14, 2006 - 11:55 AM on July 14th, 2006
“As for fighting them, I am way too old to join the military and I do not wish to fight them out of my back door.”
As I said earlier, the US Military is lowering their standards for admission…they need all the poeple than can get.
You might have a shot!
Or maybe encourage your children to fight Islamic tyrany.
Hell, If I felt as strongly as you do, I’d sign up your kids without even asking them. If that much is at stake as you say. (!)
July 14, 2006 - 12:00 PM on July 14th, 2006
Overreacting. mmmmmm……I suppose that is a good, safe, naive way to look at things. I so remember having this feeling wash over me when the embassies blew up. It was the same feeling I had when the Cole blew up. Clinton scared the shit out of me but not because he was just a political leader TRYING to make me afraid. I really was. By 9/11 I knew we had to act as a country. Those people didn’t deserve to die. And neither do I.
Evil prevails when good men do nothing and we all die.
San Fran….you may not want to bow down to Allah but if you want to live you will be forced to.
Don’t kid yourself and be naive enough to think that they couldn’t get here. Another man like Clinton and they’ll come in droves.
July 14, 2006 - 12:06 PM on July 14th, 2006
“Don’t kid yourself and be naive enough to think that they couldn’t get here. Another man like Clinton and they’ll come in droves.”
I’m sure you’re a real nice lady, but you are paranoid and afraid. People like that don’t make good decisions.
You are not thinking clearly.
People who think like you are the best for politicians.
You and people who think like you are so easy to manipulate and frighten to achieve certain ends.
Try not to be so afraid of something that has less of a chance of hurting you than getting struck by lightning.
July 14, 2006 - 12:06 PM on July 14th, 2006
“You and people who think like you are so easy to manipulate and frighten to achieve certain ends.”
…like WAR.
(!)
July 14, 2006 - 12:14 PM on July 14th, 2006
Well San Fran….I like to think I’m a nice lady.
But honestly I have been afraid for many years. I have been paying attention since the Iran hostage crisis and it has escalated, not declined, since.
As for being manipulated and unduly scared. I work less than 5 miles from the Pentagon. While I know we weren’t the target the scary part is that the plane that went down in PA hadn’t been planned that way. Who is not to say that if it happened again they would miss and hit me where I am.
July 14, 2006 - 12:20 PM on July 14th, 2006
“Who is not to say that if it happened again they would miss and hit me where I am.”
Would you send your children to war to prevent that very remote possibility?
(And I’m sure you are nice, none of this is personal, and nobody should ever take anything said here personally. We’re all brothers and sisters in a way, and we all fight like brothers and sisters do!)
July 14, 2006 - 12:28 PM on July 14th, 2006
Let’s just all put our heads in the sand and ignore terrorism, ignore the attacks, and just chalk them up to the cost of doing business! After all, a few thousand Americans a year dead in various terrorist attacks is just a tiny, tiny percentage of the population! That number is so small, it is in the noise level! Two aircraft, a couple of buildings, and 3000 people on 9/11? A drop in the bucket! So just forget it! Do what the Klinton Admin did, just party on, Garth! Party on, Wayne!
Instead focus on the real problems, like the human contribution to Global Warming! THAT is what you need to be concerned about! Draft Al Gore to run in 2008! We NEED Al Gore to save us from this crisis! Give money and power to those who will save us from our attempts to destroy the environment! Worship Al Gore!
July 14, 2006 - 02:29 PM on July 14th, 2006
“Let’s just all put our heads in the sand and ignore terrorism, ignore the attacks, and just chalk them up to the cost of doing business”
Not at all Robert, terrorism should NOT be ignored.
But it should not be overreacted to!!
You don’t send the whole army in to do the job of law enforcement and, at best, teams of Special Forces.
Invading and occupying Muslim Iraq - a country who did not attack us or threaten us - like Bush did, has done nothing to stop terrorism and in fact has made it worse by inciting the radicals and pushing moderate fence sitters into the fight.
It also has made us weaker in the region, diplomatically speaking.
So no, don’t ignore terrorism at all, but do not over-react to it.
July 14, 2006 - 04:23 PM on July 14th, 2006
“It is possible that we could lose this war.”
We could get hit by an asteroid as well. Why is this threat so over emphasized while other threats are ignored? Could it be that American politicians and voters are really bad at risk mitigation?
July 14, 2006 - 04:23 PM on July 14th, 2006
Wow, you guys really take the issue to extremes. I wonder what you would be like if you grew up in the West Bank. Mike Kilo would have blown up himself and a busload of Israelis by now.
How about we don’t stick our head in the sand, and we don’t go attack every Muslim country. How about a well thought out practical solution instead of pandering to our own extremists?
July 14, 2006 - 11:40 PM on July 14th, 2006
“Mike Kilo would have blown up himself and a busload of Israelis by now.”
Holy crap, that is the funniest thing I have ever read on this site.
July 15, 2006 - 10:20 AM on July 15th, 2006
You don’t send the whole army in to do the job of law enforcement and, at best, teams of Special Forces.
Yes, I can see your point San Fran. Let’s just send a few FBI agents over to Pakistan, knock on the door to the cave or hovel OSB is hiding in and ask him to politely come out with his hands up so they can arrest him and bring him back to the US for trial. Now, of course, we won’t be able to get a search warrant because that’s outside of US jurisdiction so they won’t be able to kick it in and go in after him, so what are they to do if he refuses to come out? Does the fact that the extension of your argument is totally ludicrous even sink in? While I will admit that the thought of being able to send in a few special operators to bring out OSB and capture (we mustn’t kill them, they have rights ya’know)all of Al Quaeda certainly does sound good, the fact that this isn’t a video game wherein a 6 man team takes on hundreds of fanatics and walks away with nothing but a few blisters on their trigger fingers precludes that.
BTW San Fran, you’re Special Forces idea isn’t all bad, OSB and Al Quaeda have simply gotten too strong for it to work at this point. Had we done that back when OSB was in the Sudan and we had the chance to nab him, we wouldn’t have been having this discussion. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen. The proper response when Sudan offered up OSB would’ve been for Delta to go pick him up, and drop him off over the Med from a few thousand feet. A couple dozen bodyguards are not hard to take out, the couple hundred he currently keeps around him are another story.
The most dangerous man in any fight is the one who feels he has nothing to lose, including his life. With many of the terrorists’ families being rewarded with the equivalent of multiple years worth of pay after the terrorist’s death, the terrorists are frequently worth more to their families dead than alive. This makes them VERY hard to defeat. Reasonable people will often surrender when outnumbered and assured of humane treatment, fanatics rarely will. They simply must be killed or incapacitated.
The IslamoFascists of the Taliban had taken over an ENTIRE country in Afghanistan and IslamoFascists are currently in control of the CITY of Mogadishu in Somalia. These terrorists are well funded (Heroin trade out of Afghanistan funded the Taliban and out of the Bakaa Valley helps fund Hezbollah), well armed, (enough money can buy almost anything now that the old Soviet Union has collapsed, China has opened its arms factories to the world trade, and well, France is a low cost whore that will do anything for money.)well organized, well trained, and highly motivated. These are not some “the South will rise again” redneck wannabe rebels with a couple of shotguns and a cooler full of beer. Many of these people have been trained in small unit tactics, and unlike the US soldiers, have no concern about getting themselves or their men killed.
Personally, I’d prefer putting our own capacity to produce chemical weapons to use. We had, though it may have been destroyed by now, a wonderful little incapacitating agent known as BZ in our arsenal. This non lethal, though having potentially hazardous side effects (not the chemical, just the lack of perspiration and potential dehydration that it causes), could be absorbed through the skin as well as inhaled and reduces the mental capacity of the victim to that of a sheep (Or heavy marijuana user) for 48 to 72 hours. At the end of the time, the effects wear off and the person returns to normal except for being really hungry and thirsty from not eating or drinking for 2 to 3 days. Imagine the benefits of being able to simply gas an entire town and then walk through rounding up and separating the terrorists from the rest of the population simply by loading the terrorists into one holding pen and the non terrorists into another? All that would be required at that point would be to provide medical attention to all effected personnel to prevent heat related injuries until the chemical wears off. Doesn’t that just beat the hell out of having to bomb and shoot up the town? Unfortunately, use of ANY chemical agent, including tear gas (CN or CS), is generally frowned upon under the rules of land warfare. Yes there were complaints about us using tear gas to drive VC guerrillas out of tunnels during the Vietnam War. Yes, the police may tear gas hostile crowds, the Army has to shoot them.
I didn’t come up with this, I’m more pragmatic than that. I’d let the military use whatever it has at its disposal to keep casualties and collateral damage to a minimum. I’m also enough of a realist to know that both are an unfortunate part of warfare, they always have been and always will be. The difference between us and the terrorists is that we try to keep both to a minimum while they include increasing both as integral parts of their battle plans.
August 9, 2006 - 05:24 PM on August 9th, 2006
““Mike Kilo would have blown up himself and a busload of Israelis by now.”
Holy crap, that is the funniest thing I have ever read on this site.”
Thank you. It’s funny because it is so true.