Letters to the Editor
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Ah, KD, snuck back in at the end, didja?
Good luck selling the uniqueness of the Muslim threat to Western civilization. Myself, I blame the Holy Catholic Church for cutting and running these many centuries ago and gone. Perhaps, armed with your catechism in one hand and the Wikipedia in the other, you can persuade us to finish the job.
Bloody unlikely, though, doncha think? The Saints preserve you anyway, and your fellow atavists.
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@ brave "anonymous"
Try again after a Liberty U grad flies a jetliner into an office building.
I won't even do the 'graduate' "one word, Ben". Three letters is sufficient: "OKC".
As a point of fact, the body count per perp was pretty much the same as the most lethal one by al Qaeda....
Cheers,
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Cap'n: Lack of logic detected....
[brave Anonymous]: @Iokannan
You write: "Fanaticism is fanaticism, irregardless of what creed it espouses."
Really? Name a Quaker terrorist group. (Irregardless?)
No one said (or implied) that Quakers are fanatic (much less terrorist). The actual logical implication (which seems to ahve escaped you for reasons that are all too obvious) is not that religious people tend to be fanatic, but ather that fanatics tend to be religious.
To help you out, if I said that all oranges are fruit, you would be doing me a disservice to say that I'd been yelling that "all (or even most) fruit are oranges".
HTH. Now FOAD.
Cheers,
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The New, New Strategy for the War in Iraq
The New, New Strategy for the War in Iraq©
A new, new strategy is ready to be announced months before the old new strategy is to be evaluated for effectiveness, strongly suggesting that the present new strategy has already failed (see A Surge Begets a Surge, Begets a Surge, wn.com, May 25, 2007). The new, new strategy has been developed by General Petraeus and the new Ambassador to Iraq. It is reported to have more emphasis on political accomplishments and is based on the removal of “bad actors” including elected and other members of the Iraqi government who are impeding progress toward stability. Such a strategy where the United States condones and may even participate in the forceful elimination of certain Iraqis other than through a democratic course of action under the rule of law, will totally antagonize even the remaining few allies of the United States in the Islamic world and the International Community. America will further erode its presently tarnished credibility through these overtly illegal acts. The United States will assuredly lose under such circumstances.
This new, new strategy also requires another major increase in troop levels and therefore must mean that the military solution continues to be the major component. The new, new strategy carries the war at least through the end of 2008. Of course the President will expect the American people to give this new, new escalation the time to work. This now brings the President to the end of his term and literally puts any further responsibility on the new president. However, an even more sinister motive for this scenario is suggested (having the finger prints of the White House inner circle) to essentially tie the hands of the new president especially if that individual is a Democrat. What sweet revenge on the part of this administration. The new president will have inherited an unworkable strategy and a widespread war consuming America in its wake. The dangerous result for the United States will be a military broken from six years of a devastating war that cannot be won. The Bush administration will guarantee that the terrorists can and will “follow us home.”
It is obvious that the President plans to have his way and win no matter the costs and consequences for America. His isolation and inability to understand the realities of the war in Iraq coupled with the insatiable appetite by the White House inner circle for amassing power, endangers the foundations of America’s democracy, which may have already reached a breaking point. The past history of the Bush administration is one of half-truths, contradictions, deceptions, secrecy, misrepresentations and deliberate manipulations. This is the unfortunate reality under which the new, new strategy will contribute to the detriment of America and the American people.
Dr. Saul B. Wilen is CEO, International Horizons Unlimited (IHU) [www.intlhorizons.com, (210) 692-1268] an educational consulting and resources consortium. Dr Wilen is a recognized authority in prevention strategies and problem solving.
Copyright © 2007 International Horizons Unlimited. All Rights Reserved.
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@ anonymous
You're begging the question. Do seven uncoordinated homicides [from anti-abortion wingnuts] over the course of three-going-on-four decades constitute a "campaign"?
Yes. To deny that is to deny the obvious. But your comparison neglects the fact that such a campaign has (for good reason) made people in the United States wear flak jackets to work, where no other profession requires such precautions. You have to look at the expected level of threat in the United States under the circumstances faced by other people just trying to do their job to decide whether Koop, Silva, Rudolph, et al have achieved a terrorist goal. In the United States, being involved (or just suspected of such, or just being mistaken for such by that wingnut that deludedly drove his car into a clinic) with abortion is enouhg to subject you to risks that no other group has to deal with here.
Cheers,
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@ kdwmson
RSS looks and talks a lot like the Hitler Youth, upon which they seem to have been modeled, but they are not, so far as anybody knows, involved in terrorism.
Just a curious note: When I was in India (time bfore last), I noted that the swastika was all over. Seems that the "broken cross (set at an angle)" was a long-standing symbol in Hinduism. And it still shows up all over in Hindu temples. Not saying that Hindus are Nazis at all, though; from what I heard, Hitler stole the swasitka from them.....
Cheers,
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Pride and poll results
The actual poll questions and answers relating to who was resonsible for 9/11 are on page 91 and 92 of the report which is accessable at http://pewresearch.org/assets/pdf/muslim-americans.pdf
Do you believe that groups of Arabs carried out the attacks against the United States on September 11 2001, or don’t you believe this?
40 Believe
28 Do not believe
32 DK/Refused
IF DON’T BELIEVE GROUPS OF ARABS RESPONSIBLE FOR 9/11 (Q.H3=2), ASK:
Q.H3a Who do you think might have been responsible for the attacks of 9/11? [RECORD VERBATIM
RESPONSE; IF DK OR REFUSE TO ANSWER, DO NOT PROBE]
BASED ON TOTAL18:
18 Do not believe in Q.H3 and Don’t know in Q.H3a
7 U.S. government conspiracy/President Bush
1 Israel/Jews
1 Others/Non-Muslims
1 Crazy/misguided people