… that hell to pay is likely to happen on the streets here at home when al-Qaeda and Iranian nuclear weapons are set off by radical Islamists, and the entire Middle East is lost to radical Islam. Sure, the Dems will have been exposed for the naive “…

Not our problem. honestly, if another terrorist attack did happen on U.S. soil, we should absorb it and move on. We certainly shouldn’t attack the country responsible, because after a year or two we’ll get bored and give up anyway.

Unfortunately, that is what it has come to. I remember predictling this sort of outcome on Sept. 12, 2001 because I never thought political correctness could be overcome enough to allow for a proper response (decisive victory a la WWII.) The West has too much self doubt, and the Islamists have none. Then the Taliban fell and I became hopeful. But now were back to Sept. 10th.

You must read Tony Blankley’s post at Real Clear Politics. The decisions made on Iraq over the next few months will take the measure of America’s maturity and sense of responsibility. Because, whether we like it or not, our decisions……

I wish we had not “saved” Europe in WWII. Not tried to fend off China in Korea. Where do you suppose we would be today? In all probability we would all be talking German, no Jewish people, no women’s/gay/civil rights movemtents. No African Americans, no disabled, no mentally ill. No medical advances except in the torture chamber of the Gestapo. No moon walk. No internet, no cellphones….you get the drift. But, whay the hay, we’re headed there anyway. Thank you Kennedy, Rangel, Kerry, Gore, Schumer, Durbin, Pelosi, Waxman, et al.

sharinlite on November 22, 2006 at 6:22 PM

Hey – remember, we win by losing – right?

Seriously, we win by backing up our words, or theory, with the will to carry it out…….

putting theory into practice, just like the Founding Fathers did.

If they had thrown in the towel in 1776, we would still quite possibly be another colony of the jolly ol’ Empire, serving for God, Country, and King Charles (and Queen Camilla).

Now imagine if we will not back up our thoughts with the will to win, we can have the unique distinction of becoming a Caliphate of North America under the fair, the just, the all knowing, the all powerful President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Golly, it just gives you goosies thinking about it, doesn’t it?

Happy Thanksgiving!

US failures in Iraq is simply a manpower issue and casualty aversion issue. Not a political one. If the US had more troops and the will/authority to kick ass without discretion; this would have been over a long time ago.

Iraq needs someone like Franco (as in Generalissimo) to squash it for a generation while slowly growing democratic reforms.

Interesting suggestion. But I think you’re being too Eurocentric. I look to South American dictators for possible models of what is needed for Iraq. Think Castello Branco, Getulio Vargas, Juan Peron, or Augusto Pinochet (Spare me, I know about Operation Condor).

Allawi said that he had told friends in the West that they could not “photocopy” their democratic systems and impose them on Iraq and the Third World. “You can’t just get out of tyranny and go to the ballot and choose,” he said.

He is exactly right. You can’t just impose democracy without security. Iraq needs a strongman–a pro-American and capitalist leader until the country is stabilized, someone like Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew. Can anyone name any of the now extremely wealthy Asian nations that went from third world disorder to economic prosperity that didn’t have a strongman before democracy?

It was foolish to overthrow a vile dicator and then suddenly go politically correct (to appease Europeans) by immediately granting mob rule, not imposing a secular state, and allowing freedoms for anti-American militia leaders who wanted to destabilize the country.

Anyway, Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Go to that link on MM’s vent today, http://www.memrifilms.org.

Watch the free “Arab and Iranian Reaction to 9/11, Five Years Later”. It’s about 43 minutes long, watch it whole or broken into little chunks for those of you with narrow pipes to the Internet.

It’s more of the stuff like “Obsession” and that thing Beck did the other night. Ron Silver narrates. Very good stuff.

I come away from it thinking “Talking monkeys”…except that there’re plenty of “truthers” here in the West who’re just as deranged.

20 years of a strongman in Iraq…just like Franco? They don’t grow ‘em like Franco in the Middle East.

As for Allawi, of course he is down on elections – he lost badly in the last one. The only way he will run Iraq again is if he is appointed – so no surprise when he suggests it.

Iraq needs someone like Franco (as in Generalissimo) to squash it for a generation while slowly growing democratic reforms.

I suppose you mean somebody like, er,…Saddam Hussein?

He was in London at the time to receive treatment for hypertension.

More likely for treatment for “Acute McCain Syndrome.”

Democracy is fragile…I think it requires those politians who are active in it’s growth process to treat it with the respect necessary to help it grow…I don’t know…who am I to say anyways…I’ll go play my Wii.

Their great unreality is that they can’t imagine that the passions of the people — for good or ill — are to be reckoned with.

That ought to be taped inside every drawer in the Oval Office desk. And actually, pretty much everybody in power.