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2005-11-06 Terror Networks & Islam

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Posted by anon2 2005-11-06 11:55|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Instead, every colonel wanted to rule the rest. Even young Qaddafi of small Libya felt he deserved to lead the horde.

This is the direct result of a endemic congenital disposition towards having balls bigger than your brains.

Even with democracy a priority in the Anglo-Saxon agenda for the Middle East, Arab governments managed to find ways not to reform. A few improvements here, a couple of basic or meaningless elections there, and we convinced the world we are moving in the right direction. The Americans and British found something to show for their costly war, and the Arab governments managed to avoid costlier confrontations with the neo-Crusaders.

Not "avoid", you moron, merely delay. Oh, and you got the "costlier" part exactly right. The price tag for ~~decades~~ centuries of Arab perfidy will be the complete and total dismantling of your intensely corrupt and eliteist power structures. Good f%&king riddance!

Posted by Zenster 2005-11-06 15:03|| 2005-11-06 15:03|| Front Page Top

#2 an Arab poet asked 1,000 years ago, âEid, what kind of Eid did you bring with you?â

Dr. Batarfi is painfully honest. A historical legacy based on a tribal, death-based faith dating back more than 1000 years. How in the world does our leadership think they can affect any permanent change? Knocking over Saddam was an honorable goal. Attempting to build democracy is purely arrogant, a fool's goal. They must "democrasize" themselves or one day vanish. All other roads lead to a hopeless quagmire.

Posted by Besoeker 2005-11-06 15:26|| 2005-11-06 15:26|| Front Page Top

#3 They must "democrasize" themselves or one day vanish. All other roads lead to a hopeless quagmire.

You mean like Germany and Japan did? Or like France, with its five Republics and several other things between times?

Posted by trailing wife 2005-11-06 17:41|| 2005-11-06 17:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, I hadn't read any of the Iraqi bloggers lately and imagine my surprise when I read a posting about al andalus park.

Talk about not letting go........

Posted by anonymous2u 2005-11-06 18:00|| 2005-11-06 18:00|| Front Page Top

#5 They must "democrasize" themselves or one day vanish.

To date, America has demonstrated uncommonly good husbandry of the democratic tradition. In our efforts to ensure its ongoing survival we are obliged to look beyond our national boundaries and periodically innoculate other promising ~~Petrie dishes~~ cultures with this robust strain of freedom. Our national security demands that we assist wherever possible in spreading this vibrant meme.

Posted by Zenster 2005-11-06 20:14|| 2005-11-06 20:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Another way to put that is, Our way or the highway.

Posted by Cleter Ebbaviling3842 2005-11-06 20:24|| 2005-11-06 20:24|| Front Page Top

#7 innoculate other promising Petrie dishes cultures with this robust strain of freedom.

Zemster: Yes, so I've noticed, but was 50,000 KIA (not counting the French cost) in our Vietnamese laboratory experiment worth it when you consider the end result was still communism? I'm for staying home and watching it on the tube. Just a thought.

Posted by Besoeker 2005-11-06 20:31|| 2005-11-06 20:31|| Front Page Top

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