Makes me think the majority of Muslims are world-historical idiots.

Or is it just the cradle to grave brainwashing?

Mohammad was an illiterate murderer who stole whatever Judeo-Christian religious trappings he could get his mitts on to sucker his neighbors into looting the other neighbors.

1350 years later, these morons are still trying to divide the Muslo-Mob’s gains.

We need to make them an offer they can’t refuse:

Calm down, or be buried.

If they just stewed peacefully in their tribal idiocy, who would care? Who cared, until they starting attacking us, what they did to their own?

Fools have to persist in their folly until it hurts them and their family members enough to rouse the bunch from their fatalistic slumbers.

Contain Islam until it either implodes or enlightens.And encourage the repatriation of those already here in the free world back to their smug zone of Mohammadism until it does.

If Tom Lasseter ever has anyone saying anything even remotely positive about Iraq, it would not only be a must-read, it would be a likely forgery.

For those who might have forgotten, General Sheridan was the man who burned and razed the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. His destructive march was lesser known than Sherman’s. However, his name is still despised by some here, to this day. That said, there has been no insurgency in the Old Dominion.

Take up the White Man’s burden–
The savage wars of peace–
Fill full the mouth of Famine,
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest,
The end for others sought;
Watch sloth and heathen folly
Bring all your hope to nought.

- Rudyard Kipling, from “The White Man’s Burden”

Now:

“All the Shiites have to do is tell everyone to lay low, wait for the Americans to leave, then when they leave you have a target list and within a day they’ll kill every Sunni leader in the country. It’ll be called the `Day of Death’ or something like that,” said 1st Lt. Alain Etienne, 34, of Brooklyn, N.Y. “They say, `Wait, and we will be victorious.’ That’s what they preach. And it will be their victory.”

You can lead a people to representative government and civil society, but you cannot make them believe in it. That, they have to accomplish on their own. Whether the Iraqis will rise to the challenge of building a stable democracy is anyone’s guess, but so far – except for the Kurds in the north – the signs aren’t encouraging.

I’ve been in favor of “draining the swamp” in the middle east, but it seems the error we’ve been making is that we never really seemed to want to take ownership of the swamp. In Iraq, there’s always been a “rushed” feeling about the post-war transition: we’ve been so determined not to look like “neo-colonialists” that we tried to build a civil government before we’d completely crushed the Baathist holdouts, the al Qaeda jihadis and the Al Sadr-style thugs.

Try raising the frame of a house before you’ve let the concrete foundation dry. That’s what we’re doing in Iraq, and to a slightly lesser degree in Afghanistan.

By comparison, we did take ownership over formerly Nazi Germany and formerly Militarist Japan in 1945 and didn’t hand the reins back to the locals until the 1950s. We took the time necessary to restore law and order, thorougly weed out the bad actors from the old regimes, and only then did we entertain restoration of civil governance.

One approach worked. The other hasn’t so far.

What I’m afraid is going to happen is that we’ll continue to lose our political will until we throw up our hands in disgust and quit the place. Then everything’s going to go back to hell again, and the consequences will once again reach our shores.

And then we’ll end up with “Gulf War III.” Only this time the Iranians will have nukes, and we won’t want to commit ground troops again, so … well, let your imaginations roam.

Just remember- we leave Iraq and the Islamists will have their resources freed up to attack Afghanistan. This is all one long war and we better be ready to fight it.

Bill C on February 2, 2007 at 9:30 AM

I agree but tell that to the new Congress and those Americans who voted them into office.

Really? Nice. I’d like to see a lot more of that sort of thing in the Dar al-Islam.

Kralizec on February 2, 2007 at 11:59 AM

Exactly.

Kralizec on February 2, 2007 at 12:00 PM

I’m not sure if you are being serious or sarcastic.

I’m beginning to believe that they don’t want freedom/democracy. Did we make a huge miscalculated error? I honestly don’t know what the answer is now. My baby is about to turn 6 and I think he’ll end up in Iraq, or Iran for that matter. I have a feeling we’ll be there for the next 20 years.

pullingmyhairout on February 2, 2007 at 9:03 AM

It’s so much less trouble to kill your enemies than to try to help them.

“All the Shiites have to do is tell everyone to lay low, wait for the Americans to leave, then when they leave you have a target list and within a day they’ll kill every Sunni leader in the country. It’ll be called the `Day of Death’ or something like that,” said 1st Lt. Alain Etienne, 34, of Brooklyn, N.Y.

Really? Nice. I’d like to see a lot more of that sort of thing in the Dar al-Islam.

Captain Ed deems it an acceptable way for Senators to express their frustration cowardly take political cover while not undermining our military’s efforts in Iraq. It’s a nice idea, but I guess I don’t really think the resolution will much……

This is all one long war and we better be ready to fight it.

And it’s going on in Lebanon, Israel and a zillion other places, not just Iraq and Afghanistan.

Eventually, Iran will make a move so overt that we can’t pretend we didn’t see it, and then this will come to a close. Unless we just surrender.

A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention….

Exit question: How long until Democrats take the Patriquin plan and claim it as their own as if it has not been happening for months?

Theworldisnotenough on February 1, 2007 at 10:34 PM

5…4…3…2…1

I’m beginning to believe that they don’t want freedom/democracy. Did we make a huge miscalculated error? I honestly don’t know what the answer is now. My baby is about to turn 6 and I think he’ll end up in Iraq, or Iran for that matter. I have a feeling we’ll be there for the next 20 years.

pullingmyhairout on February 2, 2007 at 9:03 AM

We will be fighting this war for 14 more years. That’s guaranteed. There are still plenty of Iraqis who want to live in peace and who want order. That is what we represent in Iraq and that is our definition of victory. Pulling out and letting chaos thrive is just what our enemies want. In that enviroment they can shape Iraq into whatever they want. Most probably a broken state controlled by radical Islamists of the Sunni and Shiite persuasion both giving the US trouble.

Just remember- we leave Iraq and the Islamists will have their resources freed up to attack Afghanistan. This is all one long war and we better be ready to fight it.

Alden Pyle on February 2, 2007 at 6:25 AM

I hope that is part of Bush’s plan with this surge.

Perhaps someone can explain why Mookie hasn’t been found. Its not like he’s hiding in a hole out in a farm somewhere.

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