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2005-08-05 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Snish Glimp1453 2005-08-05 06:39|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 There has been a quiet and unassuming shift that has happened. It is difficult to explain but I will attempt to do so by comparing it to nagging... nagging means there is hope for improvement and cooperation. When you really need to worry is when the nagging stops.

Posted by 2b 2005-08-05 08:32|| 2005-08-05 08:32|| Front Page Top

#2 finishing my thought...re: all of this PC, CAIR, ACLU, apologist elephant dung, I'm finding myself moving beyond. Obviously I'm not there yet. But I'm getting close.

Posted by 2b 2005-08-05 08:40|| 2005-08-05 08:40|| Front Page Top

#3 The apologist wave needs to subside, Britain and Europe (well, most of europe)have dispensed with it and are in the "purge" phase of the game. We still may need another good hit here to get on the ball and bust some heads. The global nature of the threat now has people demanding things they didn't seem to care about a few years ago; tightening the borders and giving the police and DHS freedom to do their jobs. Combine this with muslim moderates starting to speak out against extremism and al-qaida calling every arab country and even al-jazeera/ al-arabiya apostates and you have what could be the start of a good trend.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2005-08-05 09:30|| 2005-08-05 09:30|| Front Page Top

#4 I would say that the very best thing from the WoT has been the realization that there is now, for the first time in world history, a chance that the democratic revolution can be spread to the entire world.

This fact, this vision which began in earnest with the American Revolution, has been the persistent undercurrent in how America approaches the rest of the world.

Even US presidents can be gauged by the number of nations that have found freedom and real democracy during their term, and usually with their encouragement (and of course the few failed Presidents in whose time some proto-democracies and freedom were turned back under the heels of a tyranny or totalitarian regime.) But the good presidents always conspired in any way they could to spread the revolution.

The nay-sayers, who often with racist undertones have long said that this-or-that people "are not ready" for democracy, or that their culture, or recently, their religion, was such that they just wouldn't "want" democracy, have been severely slapped down.

Democracy spreads to all mankind, opposed only by the tribalists, the vandals, the tyrants, the kings and princes, the autocrats, and the megalomaniacs. They are as vampires, thriving on death, decay and corruption, and are driven away by the dawn of democracy.

Democracy brings peace. With discipline, it eventually brings prosperity, because failed policies are slowly purged from its realm. It slowly overcomes racism, inequality, injustice, and extremism. It is the very foundation for the promulgation of human rights.

And with this War on Terror, vandals and anti-democrats from around the world are being systematically annihilated; their ancient corrupt cultures and regimes destroyed; their dreams of conquest, genocide, and mayhem crushed. With philosophical Darwinism, the vestiges of Philistinism are finally being purged from the world.

No, it is not a war of religion. Many of the anti-democratic enemy already live in the western world, and in their delusion call themselves its "elites". Many seemingly peaceful peoples lend their support with loyalty above all to their tribe, with no grasp of the greater good of their nation. Paranoid militants who hate and fear democracy because of its complexity and egalitarianism. And lastly, creatures of the herd, willing to surrender all in exchange for direction of a "master"; the damned peoples who embrace slavery as freedom from responsibility.

So far, 30 million people in Afghanistan and Iraq are now tasting democracy and freedom. Surely there is nothing better in all the world.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-08-05 18:25|| 2005-08-05 18:25|| Front Page Top

#5 Hear, hear! Would that I could express myself so lyrically... would that I thought such thoughts to express them!

Posted by trailing wife 2005-08-05 23:03|| 2005-08-05 23:03|| Front Page Top

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