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2007-03-22 Iraq

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Posted by Chuck Simmins 2007-03-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Congratulations and thank you, Major Chesarek.

G*d I hope the UK alters its trajectory and stays in the game, both physically and psychologically. The anglosphere needs the mother country for the long haul.

Posted by Verlaine 2007-03-22 00:07|| 2007-03-22 00:07|| Front Page Top

#2 My feeling is that the ABCA (America, Britain, Canada, Australia) countries will hang together when any single one of them is under some kind of existential threat (i.e. foreign invasion). Anything short of that is an open question. This means ABCA cooperation on things like Iraq and Afghanistan will come under increasing pressure, since neither presents an existential threat to any of ABCA's members.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2007-03-22 03:10|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2007-03-22 03:10|| Front Page Top

#3 I sure as hell view militant Islam as an existential threat - I think the powers that be realise it is too.

Well done Major Chesarek and thank-you.

Posted by Howard UK 2007-03-22 06:08|| 2007-03-22 06:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Hopefully the UK sees it as an external threat that has spread to internal soon.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-03-22 09:01|| 2007-03-22 09:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Australia and the US - definitely. Australia, the US and Britain - maybe. Australia, the US, Britain, and Canada - less likely every day.

Posted by RWV 2007-03-22 11:50|| 2007-03-22 11:50|| Front Page Top

#6 The intellectual difficulty our fellow citizens are having is down to nuclear weapons. Worse yet are End Times weapons like weaponized smallpox. People have yet to understand that problems cannot be left to far away people about whom we know nothing when those far away people can book a flight to Ronald Reagan international or send a shipping container to Baltimore and unleash hell. I would have thought September 11, 2001 would have demonstrated this point. Apparently it has not.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-03-22 12:02|| 2007-03-22 12:02|| Front Page Top

#7 HUK: I sure as hell view militant Islam as an existential threat - I think the powers that be realise it is too.

Let me suggest that they can inflict a great deal of pain on us, maybe even kill tens of millions of us. But we have the means to liquidate every Muslim country together with the majority of their inhabitants. Big difference.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2007-03-22 13:40|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2007-03-22 13:40|| Front Page Top

#8 My point is that if we want to, we can be an existential threat to the Muslim world, but the Muslim world cannot be one to us even if it wants to.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2007-03-22 13:41|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2007-03-22 13:41|| Front Page Top

#9 Yet, Zhang Fei. However, Iran is doing its best to present itself as an existential threat to Israel and the Gulf area states. And once the wackos in Iran get the bomb, it will be used against Israel, the US Navy carrier battle groups, or both. That will spell the effective end to human habitation of large sections of Iran due to the counterstrike attacks, but I am unfortunately convinced that the Iranian leadership will still use nuclear weapons against Israel and the US at the soonest possible moment they can.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2007-03-22 16:20|| 2007-03-22 16:20|| Front Page Top

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