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2007-09-13 Home Front: WoT

"Think Tank" Makes Lame Attempt at Humor

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Posted by Verlaine 2007-09-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Excellent inline commentary, Verlaine. This one sorta jumps out at you:

Authors of the study asserted that the damage to international security and American standing from the Iraq war will take years to repair.

It is doubtful in the extreme that these IISS fuckwits could possibly wrap their microenchephalic minds around how much more damaging inaction would have been to "international security". These turds are so obsessed with tarring America that they can't even step away from their noxious task long enough to properly examine the reality of the situation.

Finally, just how much more damaging would it be to America's "standing" if we had not taken the fight to al Qaeda after the 9-11 atrocity? No decent American citizen would be able to hold their head up if we had left unanswered such a monstrous indignity to our nation. Toppling terrorist regimes and their sponsors has rightfully become our national pasttime. Those who cannot understand the dire need and moral obligation to do so are simply beyond redemption.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-13 01:39|| 2007-09-13 01:39|| Front Page Top

#2 "This is the sort of "intellectual" cover, to supplement the non-stop distortion and even falsehoods from major media, that the academic and quasi-academic worlds provide to buttress the upside-down thinking inside the fantasy bubble within which so many of our fellow citizens languish."

Yup. That about sums it up. Liberal think-tanks, leftist academics, the "progressive" media, and the leadership of the ~~Communist~~ Democratic Party have waged a non-stop, coordinated campaign to discredit EVERYTHING the Administration has done, or has sought to do, against the Islamic threat right from Day One. They are relentless.

For the last couple of months I've been compiling a list of links to Rantburg articles relating to the Liberal Establishment's efforts to undermine the GWoT. So far I'm up to August of 2006, and the list already has more than 15,000 entries.

"Anyone discouraged yet?"

You betcha. I think we're in for a WILD ride.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2007-09-13 07:34|| 2007-09-13 07:34|| Front Page Top

#3 A death-blow to the ideology?

That would be Islam.

Let's do it.

Posted by Gary and the Samoyeds">Gary and the Samoyeds 2007-09-13 08:57|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2007-09-13 08:57|| Front Page Top

#4 15,000 entries

wow.

Posted by Unutle McGurque8861 2007-09-13 12:08|| 2007-09-13 12:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Verlaine, I enjoy reading a good fisking, but what you've done has to be illegal. I just can't decide whether to report you to HRW or PETA.

Posted by Matt 2007-09-13 14:10|| 2007-09-13 14:10|| Front Page Top

#6 Ass-kicking inline, Verlaine. If the IIS authors could feel this commentary physically they would be curled up in a fetal ball crying for mommy.

Posted by Jonathan">Jonathan 2007-09-13 15:16|| 2007-09-13 15:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Finally, just how much more damaging would it be to America's "standing" if we had not taken the fight to al Qaeda after the 9-11 atrocity? No decent American citizen would be able to hold their head up

Much worse than that, Zenster. Had we not answered Al Qaeda'a challenge, as they expected we would not, every American outside our borders would be at the mercy of any Muslim who decided to experience Sudden Jihad Syndrome. Think kidnappings, murders, rapes, hijackings whenever a jihadi felt the inclination to shear the Amriki sheep as he is, after all, entitled. Followed by the rest of the kuffir world. To have done nothing would have been to surrender.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-13 21:19|| 2007-09-13 21:19|| Front Page Top

#8 To have done nothing would have been to surrender.

Superbly well put, trailing wife.

Such a notion in someway meets or exceeds the old saw of 'all that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good people to do nothing'.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-13 22:40|| 2007-09-13 22:40|| Front Page Top

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