Oh, so the Taliban weren't fascists, in the name of Islam? Or the Iranian government? Or the Syrian government?

It's not a lie when it's true. Do I really have to pull the articles from the Human Rights Watch web page to prove that Islamic fascist states really do exist, and are not a figment of my imagination, however inconvenient they may be to your arguments?

Do you dispute that conversion from Islam to Christianity is a crime punishable by death in many areas controlled by Islamic fanatics? What do you call that, except fascism? I'm not a big lover of Christianity either, but it's been hundreds of years since forced conversion has taken place in any Christian nation. It's a fact of life for the oppressed peoples of Islamo fascist states."

As usual, you argue against your own phantoms. Some Islamic governments do appear to be fascist. Anyway, your Big Lie technique is that you attempted to label all governments in the region, and I suppose elesewhere too, who have Islamic majorities as Islamic governments, or as you put it, "Islamic fascist states" in an attempt to promote your bigotry and the propaganda that "we" are at war with your Arab and/or Muslim bogeymen. You only spelled out the countries you mentioned above (btw, Syria is primarily a military dictatorship), and thereby fined tuned your point, after I pointed out your dubious tactic.

Wow, that was bizzare. Is it supposed to be some sort of badge of honor that the Nazis forced some German and other European Jewish scientists to work for them as opposed to, I suppose, searching for some Arab ones? Weird.

Anyway, most Americans couldn't recite the words from that Biblical passage if their lives depended on it. The notion that those words somehow magically connect the US to Israel, rather than a long standing government policy, political favoritism and pressure and large scale economic and military aid is, frankly, absurd.

"But, while we're on the subject, why don't you enlighten us? Which Islamic theocracy is it that's not fascist, and that doesn't export terrorism to its neighbors?

A better question is - How many countries in which Islam is the main religion are Islamic theocracies? Since Afghanistan isn't a functional country now, only Iran and probably Saudi Arabia really fit the bill, but as usual, you falsely try and expand the list (e.g. Egypt, Pakistan, etc.) to suit your bias and spread yopur anti-Arab and/or Muslim propoganada.

Simply because you want to label all Islamic countries as either overt or covert "Islamic theocracies who export terrorism to their neighbors" doesn't make it true. Although it's not as egreious or simple minded as the "war of ideas" line you parrotted from Tom Freidman which seeks to replace complex reality with simpleminded slogans.

"But at any rate the notion that bomning a factory is somehow inherently evil (or fill in whatever other structure you like after all, here in the US Indiana State Fairgrounds are high up on the DHS terror hit list, arent't they?), the idea that this kind of war is on its face illegal or evil is ill-informed Freshman seminar silliness. I'll draw you an analogy. In the Civil War (US Civil War not one of those puny baby civil wars), William Sherman was called a war criminal for scorching Georgia. But in the end, focusing on the infrastructure (and not by the way on people) brought an earlier end to the war itself. It probably saved countless lives."

A perfect exmaple of why analogies seldom work. Talk about hindsight bias and somewhat revisonist history.... Okay Mr. War Is Hell, it's just a hunch, but somehow I doubt you'd be so sanguine if Hezbollah managed to destroy say...Tel Aviv's infastructure. Yeah, I don't think you'd be blithely pooh poohing that via strained Civil War analogies and saying's it's only a factory, bridge, road, airport, school and not people....

Shhh, now you know that the only recent history that matters in the Mideast is Israeli history. Our particularly notorious actions in Iran don't matter and had nothing at all to do with creating the current "radical Islamo-fascists" Iranian state. It's just something intrinsic about those damned Persians. They just hate us and/or our freedom or something like that.

"I don't think human nature much changes and neither does national character change so fast. If the Germans hadn't been roundly and furiously pounded they would have gotten back up in another 20 years and started round 3. The Germans didn't refrain from starting another war because they miraculously metamorphisized into nice peace loving folks, I've known enough of them that they scare me. The only reason they don't try to take over again is because they know the allies won't hesitate to pound them again."

Aside from your fear of and general irrationality about Germans and seemiing lack of historical perspective (e.g. the Cold War, Berlin Wall, East and West Germany, The Marshall Plan, etc) what allies are you talking about? The last time I checked Germany was a member of NATO.