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[i]Spare me the hypocrisy. The intellectual incoherence is entirely on the side of the radical left, who constantly rationalize away the most blatant pronouncements of Ahmedinejad, OBL and the rest of their ilk about their adamant intentions to completely wipe out Israel and then impose Sharia on the rest of the world.[/i]
There are two main problems that I see among the bed wetting faithful, both having to do with your being intellectually crippled by fear.
First, you confuse intent and capability. No matter how adamant they might be, OBL and Ahmedinejad cannot do the things that you say they want to do. The notion that they could impose Sharia law on the world is laughable. Just because you feel threatened does not mean that they are a threat, especially an existential threat to the United States or Israel.
Second, you fail to recognize (or, to be charitable, you fail to acknowledge) any internal differentiation among those who you have decided are the Islamofascist menace coming to put your daughters in burquas and take away your beer battered pork chops. OBL and Ahmedinejad do not have the same goals, do not have the same tactics, do not represent the same threat to the U.S. and our allies, and we most certainly should not approach them the same way.
