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2006-10-31 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by .com 2006-10-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 You mean our buddy Jimmah flipped off the Shah of Iran and gave the green light to Sadass to charge into Iran all inside a 4 year term ? And, in his spare time totally f**ked the economy to inspire interests rates at 14-15%. I forgot some of that. He was a busy boy (body) indeed. Salutations Jimmah. Your record will be difficult to surpass. And, just think, in retirement, along with your able assistant Halfbright, you proceeded to f**kup relations with the twit in NKorea too.

Posted by SpecOp35 2006-10-31 00:55|| 2006-10-31 00:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Christopher Hitchens
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Hitch nails them here thank you!

Many of those advocating withdrawal have been "war-weary" ever since the midafternoon of Sept. 11, 2001, when it was discovered that the source of jihadist violence was U.S. foreign policya mentality now reinforced by the recent National Intelligence Estimate circulated by our emasculated, demoralized, and incompetent intelligence services. To this way of thinking, victory is impossible by definition, because any response other than restraint is bound to inflame the militancy of the other side. Since the jihadists, by every available account, are also inflamed and encouraged by everything from passivity to Danish cartoons, this seems to shrink the arena of possible or even thinkable combat. (Nobody ever asks what would happen if the jihadists had to start worrying about the level of casualties they were enduring, or the credit they were losing by their tactics, or the number of enemies they were making among civilized people who were prepared to take up arms to stop them. Our own masochism makes this contingency an unlikely one in any case.)

And coins it here! clerico-fascist forces

And winnows the crucial away from the blizzard of bullshit......

There are many different plans to reconfigure forces within Iraq and to accommodate, in one way or another, its increasingly tribal and sectarian politics. (Former Ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith's suggestion, arising from his admirable book The End of Iraq, involves a redeployment to the successful and peaceful north, with the ability to answer requests for assistance from the central government and the right to confront al-Qaida forces without notice.) But all demands for an evacuation are based on the fantasy that there is a distinction between "over there" and "over here." In a world-scale confrontation with jihadism, this distinction is idle and false. It also involves callously forgetting the people who would be the first victims but who would not by any means be the last ones.

Posted by RD 2006-10-31 02:00|| 2006-10-31 02:00|| Front Page Top

#3 "Cut and run" in Iraq will lead to mass murder much worse than the current situation. I am hoping that bases and supplies have already been set up in the peaceful portions of northern Iraq, but I doubt this has happened.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-10-31 02:21|| 2006-10-31 02:21|| Front Page Top

#4 So, we remove all US troops from the Middle East? Then just leave issues like proliferation, energy, foreign investment, jihad terrorism, for resolution by locals. Makes sense (to a moron).

Posted by Snease Shaiting3550 2006-10-31 03:46|| 2006-10-31 03:46|| Front Page Top

#5 MARK STEYN article > ONLY CHOICES IS TO WIN WAR OR LOSE IT. As said/argued times before, WOT > WAR FOR CONTROL OF WORLD + FUTURE OWG/ORDER, and is so regardless of whether Dubya, or even Saint Bill for that matter, invaded Iraq in 2003 or not. STALEMATE/ARMISTICE > will be interpreted as de facto US loss of geopol-national power = ENEMY ARMIES WILL ATTACK = INVADE AMERICA. They will be in our back yards and main streets, they will take [armed]photo-ops under the Mickey D sign ala RED DAWN. It t'aint gonna matter to the Hard Lefties whether the Federalist = Socialist, Communism-Socialism = Demo-Capitalism, America = Amerika, USA = USSA/USR, NPE = CPUS invites them in; or demands areas of CONUS be saved and liberated from the Male Brute, Fascist = Limited Communist/Stalinist, national Rightist Conservative Socialist, GOP minority-faction. LEFTIST-SOCIALISTS > POWER IS POWER, BY ANY EACH ALL + EVERY MEANS NECESSARY. DIALECTICISM =WAFFLE-lism > ONE SIDE = ALL SIDES = NO SIDES. The competition and substitution of Nations is gonna stop just because America is a hyper-power or going into space.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-10-31 04:30|| 2006-10-31 04:30|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm beginning to wonder if we are now at the Jimmy Carter point of this current conflict, where we must take one large step back into utter passivity and craven cowardice to allow the two big Reagan steps forward once everyone realizes that being a big puss only makes things worse.

Posted by Dreadnought 2006-10-31 10:35|| 2006-10-31 10:35|| Front Page Top

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