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2006-03-14 Fifth Column

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Posted by ed 2006-03-14 06:38|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The outbreak of wishful thinking at the end spoils a tolerably good article.

Posted by phil_b">phil_b 2006-03-14 07:52|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/] 2006-03-14 07:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Pipes has a serious Pollyanna complex when it comes to Islam. He keeps clicking his heels together, saying "there ARE moderates, there ARE moderates", and expecting something to happen.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-03-14 07:57|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-03-14 07:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Lol, RC. Bam!

At some point, most of us will end up on the same page.

Poor li'l Danny's been in the slow lane for years. He may not make it. He has to keep inventing juicy stop-gap rationalizations to ease his way down the mountain of elaborate Muzzy bullshit he's constructed over the years. I can't help but feel a perverse satisfaction reading people who once proudly claimed an imaginary moral high ground now abandoning carefully crafted rhetorical redoubts of feel-good prattle, one after another, to try to accommodate the facts as the farce plays out. Reminds me of institutionalized bad science... here, just one more tweak of the accepted theory, then everything will be okey-dokey. Rinse. Repeat. Yewbetcha.

I love his close. They "should" blah blah blah. Yeah? No shit? Shoulda coulda woulda "Pipe"dream, lol. Follow the evidence, baby. They ain't fucking doing it. Got it? Evidence. Facts. Reality. Everything else is wanking, Dannyboy. You've got Sudden Excuse Syndrome, son. Planning a book, I'll bet.

Another bit of the faux-moral worldview that needs to fall is the AlQ is our only true enemy myth. Truth is, there are 50-100-1000-googleplex insanely Muzzy factions and fuckwits out there, ranging from inept "cells" of one who rent Jeeps and run over people who were recently their classmates to well-meaning but foolish columnists who do us all a disservice by creating fantastical confabulations blunting the facts to suit personal world-views to lying apologist fronts and think-tanks and "charity" organizations to well-funded "pseudo states" which seek the destruction of an entire people. What they have in common is the point, not whether or not they're AlQ members or Hamas members Hezbollah members or any other "officially recognized" group.

Try this out and see which makes more sense, Pipes' latest dilemma explained away, or a simplified evidence-based take:

By their behavior (only the fools still parse their words) they are easily identified by their common goal: destroy anything and everything that isn't Islam by any means available.

Our response should be simple, once that realization takes root: destroy anything and everything that is Islam by any means available.

Duh. My opinion. Yes. I am evil. Patience has expired. My bad.

Posted by .com 2006-03-14 11:31|| 2006-03-14 11:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Sounds a lot like STS, Sudden Troll Syndrome.

Posted by 6 2006-03-14 18:43|| 2006-03-14 18:43|| Front Page Top

#5 look who is talking, numero 6... if this is not an exemplary case of projection, I dunno what is.

Posted by twobyfour 2006-03-14 21:02|| 2006-03-14 21:02|| Front Page Top

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