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I see you are a very thorough red diaper PHD candidate somewhere who might be trying to poison my teen agers' minds at some fine college or university.
You remind me of some guy named Joey who used to visit me in my Berkeley cottage trying to get me to join the Communist Party, because if I really studied all of their points I'd see that they were the best hope for our wunnerful collektivist future.
He was a very persistent Marxist dude, but I remained only a fan of Groucho.
Can you splain why it is not a good thing that so many AQ's who went to Iraq are now dead.
Do you not appreciate our brave Marines. I have friends who were Marines and they will always be semper fi. When a Marine unit takes fire, what do they do?
They head toward that fire and take it out.
I am doing a study on this.
Do you think you could convince some of your jihadists allies to actually try to interview these people on tape during those few precious moments after their heads were severed and before their thoughts expired?
Little pwogwessive wimps like you, sir, have no stomach for freedom, sir.
Your head will be cut off too if you "win."
But how could you appreciate this until they actually cut off your klueless head, and there it is , sitting next to your ass in the small of your sorry back.
I am simply wondering, if, in those last few moments of mindfulness, what the hell would you and people like you think?
On the subject of fear mongering, why is the chosen one saying he won so we should all fearfully allow our central gooberment to borrow a trillion more dollars our kids will have to pay someday to renovate goobermint buildings and send blank checks to the states?
We don't know that doing nothing of the sort might be much better, do we?
But, some of us do know that 9/11 was not a series of unfortunate airline accidents.
Some of us have gone on line to actually see Danny Pearl actually getting his actual head sliced off.
If it is fear mongering to expect these things to happen again, unless we are extremely vigilant and tough, and, if it is not fear mongering to say that we must go into hock and give every corrupt governor money to burn, somehow I must wonder who is fear mongering and who is not fear mongering, Paul Ash.
The NYT (yet) had a long article about Putin's puppet running Chechnia now that he has cleaned Chechnia out, and the journalist who was trying to escape with his life in Germany, murdered in Germany, a hit job to make an example of him for exposing Chechnia's brutal governor.
The Russians and the jihadists seem perfectly matched because they are both perfectly relentless, ruthless, amoral and awful. They seem to deserve each other, but pity the bystanders like the scores of kids murdered in Beslan. I don't understand the outrage over the relatively few excesses in Iraq (Abu Ghraib which put MP's in jail for their sins) and the total lack of interest in Russia's brutal destruction of Chechnia.
Our involvement in Afghanistan is much different from the Russians' decade or so there. The Russians could give a shit less that women were being murdered for painting their toenails and daughters were not allowed to go to school. It was all about Russian influence and power. Just look at what they did to Grozny in Chechnia.
You girlz just can't get it through your little leftoid heads that, warts and imperfections and all, WE ARE THE GOOD GUYS.
You leftists have your talking points about everything from Afghanistan to Waziristan,
You are for the most part zealots, who believe your collectivist rubbish just like the Christians you hate really believe that Christ walked on water. Your politics is your religion. You believe in miracles because your wunnerful political theories have actually resulted in nothing but hunger and death and destruction and inhumanity on a massive scale.
Never mind common sense.