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2007-06-18 Britain

Blair feared US would 'nuke' Afghanistan

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Posted by Oztralian 2007-06-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Even if we had nuked the place into the Stone Age how could anyone have been able to tell the difference?

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-06-18 00:04|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-06-18 00:04|| Front Page Top

#2 While it was obviously not necessary to do so, one can only imagine how badly Islamand especially theocratic Islamwould have been brought up short by such an unequivocal demonstration of our displeasure. It still remains to be seen if anything less will ever manage to serve adequate notice to the MME (Muslim Middle East) with respect to their incessant crapulence. I'm beginning to doubt it myself.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-06-18 00:59|| 2007-06-18 00:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Clue #1: This article is based on something that will be published in the Daily Mirror , a left-wing Brit tabloid.

Clue #2: The gaseous quote is allegedly uttered by a British diplomat. The history of post-WWI British diplomacy, is, shall we say, almost amusing when not utterly grotesque.

Posted by mrp 2007-06-18 07:48|| 2007-06-18 07:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Al Mirror, the prole's Guardian. This is a bigot bloviating for bigots. When is this stupid cowboyism and Texophobia going to be recognized for what it is?

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2007-06-18 08:31|| 2007-06-18 08:31|| Front Page Top

#5 All bullshi*.

Posted by Besoeker 2007-06-18 08:36|| 2007-06-18 08:36|| Front Page Top

#6 they would go thundering off and nuke the shit out of the place without thinking straight,

Could we have done this at all? Sure we have a lot of nukes, but Afghanifornia has a lot of shit.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2007-06-18 08:39|| 2007-06-18 08:39|| Front Page Top

#7 What kind of diplomat, current or former, uses that kind of language in a public statement, whether print or film? I can't be bothered to google the gentleman in question, but I have to wonder how long he was allowed to hold his post in capitol of one of Britain's key allies, were he given to such utterances.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-06-18 08:51|| 2007-06-18 08:51|| Front Page Top

#8 Any British diplomat using such coarse language should be debagged and duly briced. Sceptical.

Posted by Howard UK 2007-06-18 09:17|| 2007-06-18 09:17|| Front Page Top

#9 Ah, the irresistible Chris Meyer. Old Soviet hand (possibly turned?), bloviator extraordinaire, likes to kiss and tell all then kiss again for more juice. Even has a French education. A known and well publicized anti-Israel left-wing nut of the first order. Too bad there isn't a garter for that. But he is a perfect fit for Channel 4 and John Snow, right Howard?

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-06-18 09:31|| 2007-06-18 09:31|| Front Page Top

#10 This Daily Rag just can't get over the fact that we could have nuked the shat out of it, but we took it down with few men and airpower.

Phear our special forces, assholes!

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-06-18 09:33|| 2007-06-18 09:33|| Front Page Top

#11 Nuke Mecca but first wait for your Ramadan hunting license.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-06-18 09:50|| 2007-06-18 09:50|| Front Page Top

#12 Britain's Channel 4 is the worst of the worst of the worst..

It regularly excretes a blend of Classic Commie Rat Bastard and Islamist Populism into long anti-American and anti-Capitalist Turds.

Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg 2007-06-18 10:33|| 2007-06-18 10:33|| Front Page Top

#13 This could be read as a warning to the ME that if we have to come back, it won't be as a kinder, gentler country. We're crazy and we'll use these things if they go to far. Not bad to have them thinking we almost did last time.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-06-18 10:39|| 2007-06-18 10:39|| Front Page Top

#14 What Zenster said.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-06-18 11:57|| 2007-06-18 11:57|| Front Page Top

#15 Last week a Kabul mob formed after a US soldier accidently shot someone between him and a terror target. At best, they barely tolerate us. Jihadism is like breathing to Muslims.

Nation building in Vietnam and elsewhere, was somewhat effective, until external forces subverted same. I have become convinced that we should have approached 9-11 interests with only self-interests in mind. Any success that appears apparent in the occupied countries, has been transient because the Muslim mindset rejects peace and security. It has to be imposed on them by means of harsh occupation, without turkey shoot patrols among the hostile majority.

Posted by McZoid 2007-06-18 13:18|| 2007-06-18 13:18|| Front Page Top

#16 We have never really stepped hard on muslim nuts. As the result we don't get any respect or fear. What Excalibur # 11 said.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-06-18 13:25|| 2007-06-18 13:25|| Front Page Top

#17 It'd be just like Bush to nuke Afganistan when he should go straight to the source: Mecca.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-06-18 14:59|| 2007-06-18 14:59|| Front Page Top

#18 I call

Posted by doc 2007-06-18 15:00|| 2007-06-18 15:00|| Front Page Top

#19 Nuke Mecca, huh? Maybe you should be nuked.

Posted by Phinenter Guelph1359 2007-06-18 15:06|| 2007-06-18 15:06|| Front Page Top

#20 We have never really stepped hard on muslim nuts. As the result we don't get any respect or fear.

This remains a central problem. Islam is a profoundly intolerant and very violent creed. It has only two modes; Hudna and War. This totalitarian ideology has now entered a terminal phase involving skirmish level asymmetrical warfare while it simultaneously attempts to acquire nuclear weapons.

Western powers have yet to realize that there is no peace or accommodation with Islam. Despite a nearly constant stream of low level aggression, they continue to mistake the last several centuries of Islamic stagnation as peaceful coexistence. Islam's stalwart refusal to get along is not taken seriously by those who, instead, have been suckered by a modern public relations campaign worthy of Madison Avenue. If ever there was a wolf in sheep's clothing, it is The Religion of Peace [spit].

It is the West's fundamental inability to recognize Islam's intransigence that forestalls what would otherwise be a glaring need for swift and decisive action. There is no perception that the humanitarian outlook we prize so highly is essentially alien to Muslims. Unable or unwilling to perceive the exceptionally violent core of Koranic doctrine, we continue to fool ourselves that good will and kindness will be rewarded.

A primary foundation of Hudna is to pervert the enemy's humanity and civility into weapons of assault against them. Islam's strategists prize this stunning degree of ingratitude as an honorable tactic and extremely powerful lever. The credulity of Western leadership allows them to dismiss this astounding perfidy as something lost in translation. They refuse to comprehend the serious implications of such treachery and thereby overlook a vital coefficient of all Islamic law.

It is qisas or "retaliation". Much of shari'a law centers upon this principle. The West's essential humanity cannot conceive of how thoroughly imbedded this concept is throughout Islam. Qisas represents a fulcrum upon which societal balance is maintained in Muslim cultures. It has nothing to do with incentives or carrots, it is all stick.

Islam's pursuit of global domination carries before it the inherent notion of primacy and a total disdain for all other philosophies. Since we do not base our decision making process upon Islams tenets, our responses are essentially meaningless. The West rapidly must begin to refocus its strategy for fighting terrorism over to one that employs Islam's own internal calculus.

The equations involved are ones of retaliation and collective punishment. Eschewed by the West, they nonetheless remain as the only legal tender that Islam will accept. The time has come to repay Islam in its own coin. They will recognize no other currency, not now, not ever. Muslims must be made to feel our pain. Only when equal or greater numbers of them suffer for every atrocity their fanatics commit will they finally take action against the jihadis.

Our unfamiliarity and lack of comprehension make it impossible to identify and isolate Islam's jihadist fanatics. Taqiyya and Hudna all serve to prevent this. Only Muslims have the ability to differentiate between those who would rehabilitate Islam and those who cannot abide any such change. If Muslims refuse to accept responsibility for this crucial task, then by default they side with the jihadists.

This must be made unequivocally clear to Islam's followers. Either they clean their own house or all of them will begin to suffer for their slovenly treatment of other cultures. Time is running out for both the West and Islam itself. The jihadist fanatics have zero scruples about ratcheting up their violence until it attains nuclear proportions. Once that threshold is crossed, this world will stand on the precipice of a Muslim holocaust. For Islam, it is an all-or-nothing equation. The worlds population will submit to Allah or die. Either we take them seriously and begin making this irreconcilable difference a source of immense suffering for Muslims, or we open the door for nuclear attacks against the West which will most likely lead to total annihilation of the MME (Muslim Middle East).

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-06-18 15:50|| 2007-06-18 15:50|| Front Page Top

#21 I know England and Australia joined us in Iraq because of our super-sercret anti-gravity technology.

Read about it here

Posted by Bob 2007-06-18 16:23|| 2007-06-18 16:23|| Front Page Top

#22 Nuke Mecca, huh? Maybe you should be nuked.

Kick ass argumentation my man.
Now get me to the airport.

Posted by Shipman 2007-06-18 16:39|| 2007-06-18 16:39|| Front Page Top

#23 Why would Blair have cared?

Posted by 3dc 2007-06-18 19:23|| 2007-06-18 19:23|| Front Page Top

#24 #19 Nuke Mecca, huh? Maybe you should be nuked.
Posted by: Phinenter Guelph1359

Hey A**wipe, Let's review current history:

Muslims killing Muslims
Muslims killing Jews
Muslims killing Christians
Muslims killing Hindus
Muslims killing the INFIDEL
All around the world right now
Hundreds are being murdered by Muslims

Thanks for playing, here have a cookie child.

Posted by Get your gun 2007-06-18 19:35|| 2007-06-18 19:35|| Front Page Top

#25 Why would Blair have cared?

Because he has a lot of Paki-Waki's in Britain, and the might have become restive in the event of us lighting up their backyard. Funny that, because sooner or later we're going to light up their front yard. Among other things.

Things will start to happen quickly going forward, and it will all go over the edge in the blink of an eye. Enjoy the ride.

Posted by Squinty Gleans9834 2007-06-18 19:37|| 2007-06-18 19:37|| Front Page Top

#26 Get your gun, I take serious issue with your list.

You left out the Thai Buddhists ...

Things will start to happen quickly going forward, and it will all go over the edge in the blink of an eye.

All that really remains to be seen is whether Europe shifts their Muslims into Auschwitz-Treblinka overdrive before a few nuclear hits on America inspire us to become the world's leading glass producer.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-06-18 19:54|| 2007-06-18 19:54|| Front Page Top

#27 All that really remains to be seen is whether Europe shifts their Muslims into Auschwitz-Treblinka overdrive...

For that to happen, the feminized everyman will have to grow a set and lynch their political class. Which, BTW, can't wait to crawl into bed with the Islamists.

These idiots are somehow mesmerized by something the Arabs have been feeding them or telling them.

Posted by Squinty Gleans9834 2007-06-18 20:21|| 2007-06-18 20:21|| Front Page Top

#28 #19, Phinenter Guelph1359, we all know you would if you could. That's why so many of us think we should do unto you before you do unto us. Give us one good reason why we shouldn't. I bet you can't.

Posted by treo 2007-06-18 20:37|| 2007-06-18 20:37|| Front Page Top

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