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2017-09-11

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Posted by Fred 2017-09-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 I don't know what's sadder. The idiots who think it was all our fault because we "don't understand and deserved it" or the idiots who think it "was a conspiracy by the CIA and whoever else they can think off".

Posted by Cheaderhead 2017-09-11 05:48|| 2017-09-11 05:48|| Front Page Top

#2 ...I've always thought that what should have happened in that first week was 41 standing up and saying, "There will be blood."

And meaning it. And doing it. Level Kabul. Take down anything even resembling military power in Iraq, and telling the Iranians as a matter of national policy that our response to any further terror attacks would be swift, brutal, and overwhelming force. The nation would have backed him, and the world would have sat down, shut up, and looked the other way.

Instead, we have...this.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2017-09-11 06:39|| 2017-09-11 06:39|| Front Page Top

#3 The 'kinder gentler' war strategy. How's that worked out for you? /rhet question

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-09-11 07:26|| 2017-09-11 07:26|| Front Page Top

#4 This isn't 'day trading.' You can't simply annihilate the enemy and expect 'endless wars' to continue.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-11 07:36|| 2017-09-11 07:36|| Front Page Top

#5 All of those 9/11 terrorists were either Soddies or Yemenis. And yet we still kowtow to the Soddy king. Oil be damned. It makes no sense.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-09-11 09:57|| 2017-09-11 09:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Should've sanctioned wetwork on those known responsible, however high up it went.

Sixteen years of service, Fred. Thank you. I've followed you from the first I heard of you on Glenn Reynold's blog

Posted by Frank G 2017-09-11 10:02|| 2017-09-11 10:02|| Front Page Top

#7 We have done nothing on the ideology front. We should have been denouncing the evil in Quran and Islam and having Muslims leaving Islam by the m
illions. In fact we are in full retreat.

Posted by JFM 2017-09-11 10:05|| 2017-09-11 10:05|| Front Page Top

#8 of the 19 terrorists involved, none were Yemenites

the leader was Egyptian

yes, a lot of them were Saudi

Posted by lord garth 2017-09-11 10:05|| 2017-09-11 10:05|| Front Page Top

#9 The bin Laden family was originally from Yemen.

Posted by Glenmore 2017-09-11 11:34|| 2017-09-11 11:34|| Front Page Top

#10 Same here Frank, ever since the beginning when I went through Insty's Blog Roll. the 'burg, Insty and Tim Blair are the only ones I still follow.

I was and am very disappointed by GWB's wimpy response. Some places in the mid-east should have ceased to exist.

Posted by AlanC 2017-09-11 12:00|| 2017-09-11 12:00|| Front Page Top

#11 Does Rantburg's blogroll still work? Last time I checked, it was full of dead links.

Posted by Herb McCoy7309 2017-09-11 12:38|| 2017-09-11 12:38|| Front Page Top

#12 I also think rantburg should memorialize May 15, 2005.

That was the day of the well publicized, much endorsed Muslim march against terrorism in Washington DC. There were fewer than 100 people, many of whom were not muslim.

Posted by lord garth 2017-09-11 14:02|| 2017-09-11 14:02|| Front Page Top

#13 That is what is pathetic, that although there are plenty of law-abiding citizen and "against" violence, they refuse to come out and denounce Islamic terrorism.

Posted by Clem 2017-09-11 15:00|| 2017-09-11 15:00|| Front Page Top

#14 Every once in awhile I go through and weed the blogroll. They seem to go quicker than I can wave goodbye.

Posted by Fred 2017-09-11 15:24|| 2017-09-11 15:24|| Front Page Top

#15
memorialize May 15, 2005

Mohammedans, ever magnanimous,
On 5/15 almost unanimous:
As dozens march peacefully,
Millions are blissfully
Missing, en masse. Pusillanimous.

There's fifteen seconds of infamy, anyway. I'll work on it.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2017-09-11 18:25|| 2017-09-11 18:25|| Front Page Top

#16 Sadly, if the definition of victory is "imposing your will on the enemy", we aren't on the winning side.

Posted by charger 2017-09-11 19:48|| 2017-09-11 19:48|| Front Page Top

#17 The only weapon left out of the conguering arsonal was the two edged sword of the Christian faith, a.k.a. The Word.

Posted by Threatch Jeamp8135 2017-09-11 21:40|| 2017-09-11 21:40|| Front Page Top

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