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2006-03-11 Terror Networks

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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-03-11 04:05|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ...These guys are - and in no way am I minimizing the potential horror here - classic James Bond villains:

1. They want to rule or control the rest of the world.
2. They are going to sit there and give us a long detailed explanation of how they are going to do it, because in their arrogance and fanaticism, they are convinced we cannot stop them.

We are being warned.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-03-11 11:22|| 2006-03-11 11:22|| Front Page Top

#2 The author wrote: We are really puzzled to see the Americans and their followers in the Western world think that they are able to confront people who wish to die more than they [the Americans] want to live.

We have far more bullets than they have bodies. Thus far, in Iraq particularly, their wishes have been accomodated admirably. Win-win, I think.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-03-11 12:39|| 2006-03-11 12:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Must exceed their birth rates, TW.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-03-11 13:03|| 2006-03-11 13:03|| Front Page Top

#4 We are really puzzled to see the Americans and their followers in the Western world think that they are able to confront people who wish to die more than they [the Americans] want to live.

Since when has an insane death-wish been a viable long-term strategy? The kamakazis startled us and spiked our casualties, but we mowed them down and moved on - to the bloodiest, most no-quarter fighting in the Pacific war - and we still won.

These jihadis are pikers compared to the WW2 Japanese. It's the enemies within and the lack of perseverance at home that I worry about.

Posted by xbalanke 2006-03-11 14:50|| 2006-03-11 14:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Heavens! Is there a Cliff Notes for this?

Posted by Bobby 2006-03-11 18:31|| 2006-03-11 18:31|| Front Page Top

#6 "The sense of humiliation is not simply a consequence of military occupation, such as in Iraq, Palestine, Chechnya, or Kashmir. Rather, it is primarily the feeling of American-Western cultural domination."

Their humiliation is much more than that. Were we to pull out of every Islamic country in the world, jihadists would still rage from humiliation-whether because of an innocent glance of affection from a female to a male, the "dishonor" of a daughter who has a relationship outside the jail of her faith, a neighbor having better livestock, a neighboring country having more natural resources, a thieving or murderous autocratic ruling family killing its citizenry...No, humiliated jihadis will continue to express themselves in murderous rage throughout Islamania until jihadists realize their own violence humiliates them more than any outsiders could ever do.

Posted by Jules 2006-03-11 21:56|| 2006-03-11 21:56|| Front Page Top

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