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2005-11-02 Terror Networks & Islam

"Who Hates America in the Arab and Muslim World, and Why"

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Posted by tipper 2005-11-02 06:02|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 A Bahrani calling for regime change across Arabia. Now that's pretty interesting. Decent logic, too. He's been reading some of the blogs like RB, methinks. But no more nation-building, sorry. Only the first two customers got that. In the remainder, the "hostages" will have to pick up the pieces, resist the wannabee tyrants in their midst from taking over, and make their own way. And, if they screw it up, well, make-up tests will be scheduled.

I can't recall at the moment who said it, but paraphrasing in my own way: being loved is irrelevant, being feared is substantive.

Posted by .com 2005-11-02 06:35|| 2005-11-02 06:35|| Front Page Top

#2 when are we going to fight back on the PR front? It's a slam dunk. The spoiled hypocritical Saudi princes are as easy as a target is our own "do as I say" lefties - yet we simply don't fight back.

I'm sick of it. Shame on the military planners who leave us completely vulnerable on this flank.

Posted by 2b 2005-11-02 08:12|| 2005-11-02 08:12|| Front Page Top

#3 "The U.S. must respond [to the hatred against it] not by appealing to the hostages and convincing them of the good things in the U.S. â because they are incapable of seeing them even if they wanted to.

"They must be helped first of all by freeing them of their [Islamist, pan-Arab, and Arab government] abductors."
No, They must be helped firsto of all by freeing them of American foreign aid, Especially Hosejob Mubarrak.

Posted by Groluque Slavise9177 2005-11-02 08:24|| 2005-11-02 08:24|| Front Page Top

#4 2b - The propaganda is properly CIA and State's area not the military. Those two need a good kick in the rear.

Posted by 3dc 2005-11-02 10:24|| 2005-11-02 10:24|| Front Page Top

#5 "In total, during a single decade alone no less than half a million Arab and Muslim victims were murdered by Arabs and Muslims.

Nice statistics, but can they kick it up a notch after Rosh Hashanah?

Posted by Besoeker 2005-11-02 10:37|| 2005-11-02 10:37|| Front Page Top

#6 The propaganda is properly CIA and State's area not the military. Those two need a good kick in the rear.

The problem is, we cannot trust either the CIA or State to be loyal to the US government.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-11-02 10:44|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-11-02 10:44|| Front Page Top

#7 Hell we dont even answer the propaganda in our own media. Where are the videos of the 'freedom fighters' hiding behind women and children? Where are the reports of the 'miniutemen' using 'slow' children as suicide bombers?

Instead the public is fed non-stop leftest bullshit spewed out by the likes of Cindy Shithan, Ted Kennedy, Mike Al-Moore and the MSM unchallanged except on the internet and the blogs.

State and the CIA are not the only ones in dire need of a swift kick in the neither regions.

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-11-02 10:44|| 2005-11-02 10:44|| Front Page Top

#8 I wouldn't kick any State or Agency employees in the ass, they'd probably grin and ask 'seconds' in a dimly lit room. When President Reagan ordered polygraph tests for Cabinet officials in 1985 to discourage leaks, Secretary of State George Shultz threatened to resign rather than undergo testing, in a famous outburst. "Management through fear and intimidation," he said, "is not the way to promote honesty and protect security." Geo Shultz knew precisely what his State Dept. population consisted of. Reagan promptly backed off. Poly's and drug testing are still good enough for soldiers however. Appears diplomacy and spy work have failed miserably. I suspect our survival and success in the GWOT now depends upon the military. Both of these agencies have a proud tradition of hatred and disdain for anything military. It would be fine with me if we BRAC's both agencies and started over.

Posted by Besoeker 2005-11-02 11:49|| 2005-11-02 11:49|| Front Page Top

#9 "Who Hates America in the Arab and Muslim World ..."

Uuummmm ... All of them?

"Gradually, an unofficial alliance emerged between these three parties, with the long-term goal to thwart the new American policy. [But] since this alliance is too weak to respond militarily to the American policy, it responds in the media and with propaganda.

Not to mention the dead rat laying in the middle of the floor ... terrorism.

Posted by Zenster 2005-11-02 12:30|| 2005-11-02 12:30|| Front Page Top

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