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| The Hammer -- Past the Apogee: America Under Pressure |
| 2006-12-18 |
| By Charles Krauthammer - December 18, 2006 (Real Clear Politics Note: The following is based on Charles Krauthammer's keynote address at the Foreign Policy Research Institute's November 14, 2006, annual dinner, at which Dr. Krauthammer was the second recipient of FPRI's Benjamin Franklin Award for Public Service.) We are now in a period of confusion and disorientation, almost despair. I think it is worthwhile to look back historically to see how we got to where we are today. |
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| #4 Nuking all Muslim countries is not an answer either. You don't have to "nuke 'em all". You just have to nuke about two of them - with extreme prejudice. The rest will then tend to "come along quietly." Maybe, we'll need to nuke a third one - the most malcontented and vociferous of the first-round survivors - just to get the point accross. The sooner we begin, the better. Every day, "the dark side" grows stronger. |
| Posted by: Lone Ranger 2006-12-18 23:18 |
| #3 Within a narrow, selective scope, Islamist Radicalism = where the Russian BOLSHEVIKS are post-October Revolution or post-storming the Winter Palace. SUNNI vs SHIA violence in Iraq > akin to RED vs WHITE RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR, STALIN vs TROTSKY = MENSHEVIK vs BOLSHEVIK? looming. The USA-West may have to go thru another Hitler-Stalin non-Aggression Pact, Munich, World War + Cold War including Korea + "Prague Springs", etc before Fall of Berlin Wall and final IMPLOSION. DOUBT THE SPETZIES ARE GONNA WAIT ANOTHER 90 +/- YARNS. As for defeat of the USA, CLINTONISM > HATED DESPICABLE RIGHTIST FASCIST-NAZIS = WELL-MEANING BUT ERROR-PRONE, IMPERFECT, LIMITED LEFTISTS-COMMUNISTS. IOW, where the DemoLeft is concerned, the WOT > zabout LIMITED COMMUNISM-TOTALITARIANISM-GOVT-ISM versus FULL COMMUNISM-TOTALITARIANISM-GOVT-ISM and related. *XMAS 2006 - "I'm in the Mood for Love", VOLARE = THATS AMOURE = QUE CERA CERA, but D *** it Tina Turner said WHATS LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT??? "The G *** D *** GERMANS HAVE GOT NUTHIN' TO WITH ANYTHING". |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-12-18 21:20 |
| #2 If converting the culture of one of the most backward and vicious parts of the world is the only answer, then we are truly doomed. There is so much else that could be done (& is not being done) to deal with the Islamic threat. Nuking all Muslim countries is not an answer either. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-12-18 12:57 |
| #1 "The banquet is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy." |
| Posted by: Ptah 2006-12-18 11:18 |