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| What President Bush Must Say To Islam |
| 2006-12-04 |
| Extract I fear that we are watching an ostentation of neo-Neville Chamberlains peacocking their way around the world these days, seeking new Munich Agreements that will promise "peace in our time," agreements that, if made, will be repudiated, or simply ignored, by the neo-Hitlers and neo-Mussolinis of neo-Nazi Jihadism with whom we shall make them. Like Chamberlain and the Members of Parliament who shouted down Churchill, our leadership seems to be desperately seeking refuge, however temporary and illusory, from the thunderstorms of war gathering on the near horizon. Groveling for peace, the national leaders of America and Israel seem to be begging their enemies for "peace in our time," rather than acknowledging and acting upon the obvious, or what should be the obvious, that "peace in our time" can only be secured by maintaining - and asserting - both the ability and the will to inflict a decisive and devastating defeat on any enemy. Why do Americans, Europeans, Israelis, keep electing to high office these apparently altruistic people who seem to suffer the Neville Chamberlain syndrome, the willful delusion that the leaders of the Jihadist world, like us, want peace? Why does our leadership seem to assume that that everyone wants peace? That because we want peace, America, Israel, Europe, therefore Abbas and Ahmadinejad must also want peace? It is an immutable law of history that wars begin when one country or alliance wants war, conquest, and the countries in their cross-hairs fail and refuse to acknowledge that no matter how badly they want peace, the dogs of war will find them. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #19 "Do into others as they would do into you. But do it first." Have you ever heard of "pay forward"? Yes, amongst those who are worthy, you always give the benefit of the doubt first. Against those who have declared open war against you, give them the back of your hand if not a "free launch". Remember, there is no such thing as a "free launch". |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-12-04 23:48 |
| #18 #15 Tghe way I was taught it Zenster "Do into others as they would do into you. But do it first." |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2006-12-04 22:24 |
| #17 BA (and others): Google can be useful. Please use it. Mewonders what I'd get if I google "Anguper Hupomosing9418"? Jeebus, man, take a chill-pill. Just askin' is all, and I know all about google. |
| Posted by: BA 2006-12-04 22:18 |
| #16 "We must regain our ethical basis" I agree, destroy the enemy before they kill our families. Or didn't you get the koran's "convert or kill them all" motto? Cause if that doesn't bother you then pack up and move to mecca now before we set it aglow. Ranting off. Let's get something straight here liberal, Islam's call for violence and enslavement of kafirs applies to you too. |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2006-12-04 21:41 |
| #15 We must regain our ethical basis --- the Golden Rule, Zenster. In the days before weapons of mass destruction, it was all right to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Those days are long gone. Now, the rule of survival is: Do unto others before they do unto you. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-12-04 19:42 |
| #14 We must regain our ethical basis --- the Golden Rule, Zenster. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2006-12-04 19:09 |
| #13 "This morning, the United States took the difficult but necessary step of totally destroying the Arab nations of....." All that needs be said, to anyone. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2006-12-04 15:38 |
| #12 America, Europe, Israel, want peace, and we are busy trying to convince ourselves that the Muslims of Iran and Syria and the Palestinian peoples, at least the activist Muslims who matter, do too. But they don't. They want war, Jihad, conquest, empire, supremacy. This is no secret. It doesn't require a Masters degree in diplomacy, or years of service in the State Department, to see. It isn't rocket science. One needs only to take their word for it. They aren't at all bashful or shy about saying so, we need only assume they mean what they say. Death to Israel. Death to the West. Death to America. Peace in our time = Hudna As I have said repeatedly, we must take these bastards at their word. They spout about doing us great harm. Believe them and act upon that belief. Our superior weapons are useless without the will to deploy them and the determination to survive. Our world is being thrown into the slavering jaws of a ravenous beast solely because no one in power can bring themselves to shoot the damn thing. He lost me after that bullshit sentence. Likewise, Icerigger. Islam has NOTHING to do with peace and continuing to utter such flagrant horseshit only emboldens our enemies with the notion that they have successfully pulled the wool over our eyes. The sooner Islam is stripped of its status as a religion, the quicker we can go about dismantling it part and parcel. WE ARE TOTALLY INSANE IN THINKING THAT ISLAM IS NOT ATTEMPTING TO DO THE EXACT SAME THING TO ALL OTHER RELIGIONS AND WESTERN CULTURE IN GENERAL. Islam must be put on notice that all further atrocities will be met with overwhelmingly disproportionate retaliation, be it conventional or nuclear matters not. Another spate of train or nightclub bombings must see an entire MME (Muslim Middle East) city reduced to ashes. Islam has been allowed to act without being held to any serious consequences. The threat of spreading democracy throughout the MME would be all well and fine if we had SEVERAL DECADES TO ACHIEVE SAME. We have no such luxury. The clock is ticking down to midnight and our leaders are fiddling about with individual moral purity while Rome burns. The civilized world must inform Islam that their fate is in their own hands. Turn those hands to war and be rewarded with the same in much greater measure. Islam must be placed under such gigantic threat whereby it finally begins to clean its own house out of sheer survival. Anything less will be used as a hudna to accumulate the strength needed for further assaults upon our freedom. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-12-04 14:58 |
| #11 I just googled churlish. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2006-12-04 14:05 |
| #10 BA (and others): Google can be useful. Please use it. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-12-04 12:01 |
| #9 QED stands for "quod est demonstrandum" which means `which has been shown'. Usually placed at the end of a mathmatical proof. |
| Posted by: GORT 2006-12-04 11:38 |
| #8 Thanks, MacNails. And, QED? Sorry, last one I promise, lol! |
| Posted by: BA 2006-12-04 11:28 |
| #7 F Off And Die QED |
| Posted by: MacNails 2006-12-04 11:25 |
| #6 This is exactly what the Pope is arguing for in his reciprocity speeches. Maybe not as non-P.C. or succinct, but the same message. I do wish that President Bush would use the 'bully pulpit' more, a'la Reagan. I know he has in the past, and we're better off for it, and he has used VERY direct language before too. Of course, I also realize that part of this equation is the MSM who seem to be stuck on And, classer, forgive me, but what is FOAD? I know I've seen it before, but maybe not spelled out. Is there a page within the 'burg here explaining all of our internet shorthand. Most of the other acronyms I understand but haven't figured out FOAD (I think I know the first two letters). |
| Posted by: BA 2006-12-04 11:23 |
| #5 "It is an immutable law of history that wars begin when one country or alliance wants war" Not quite. War results when two parties want control over the same people or place, and they don't know for sure which one would win. It is a matter of uncertainty and communication. And the uncertainty part is of WILL, since the material of war is relatively easily predicted. The WILL to win is created by communication/leadership. The West lacks sufficient leadership to generate the necessary WILL, and that lack is being communicated very clearly to our enemy. Why is the West so apathetic, so blind? I suspect it is because to so many 'it's all about me'; that there is no faith in a personal future and thus no regard for any moral or ethical 'absolutes'. Islam does not have this problem. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2006-12-04 10:47 |
| #4 I like the term neo-nevilles for all these would be appeasers. I'm going to start to use it. |
| Posted by: Penguin 2006-12-04 10:16 |
| #3 The President must go to the United Nations General Assembly, before all the world's cameras, and give a speech, the essence of which should be this: I have just signed legislation that will outlaw with apologies to Ronald Magnus |
| Posted by: badanov 2006-12-04 09:27 |
| #2 The President must go to the United Nations General Assembly, before all the world's cameras, and give a speech, the essence of which should be this: Islam.............F.O.A.D. |
| Posted by: Classer 2006-12-04 07:47 |
| #1 "We welcome Islam as a religion of peace" He lost me after that bullshit sentence. What's next, calling Charles Mason's kiddies, the cult of peace? WTF. |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2006-12-04 07:23 |