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2004-01-14 Home Front

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Posted by Old Patriot 2004-01-14 1:04:09 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Good big picture summary! IMHO he restricts himself to phase 1 WTO targets, and ignores a wider picture where all ideologies (specifically including Islam) that advocate the West's overthrow are our enemy and must be defeated.

I view this as like a snowball. The longer it rolls the bigger it gets.

Posted by phil_b 2004-1-14 2:40:38 AM|| 2004-1-14 2:40:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 In Iraq, where casualties in Baghdad could be compared to civilian losses to everyday violence in New York and Los Angeles, ...

Interesting comparison. Where are the calls for U.S. to pull out of New York or Los Angeles?

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-1-14 9:17:19 AM|| 2004-1-14 9:17:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 How embarrassing is it to write a 56 page article, walking way out on a limb, and then in a period of only 4 weeks, 6 or 7 independent events all fly right in the face of your key theory?

(Chandler Bing voice)
Could he be any more wrong?

As I commented here - dry up the money and the room to operate, and terrorism will whither on the vine. Chasing them all individually, while allowing the system that creates them to flourish, would not be effective, because we simply do not have the people to infiltrate these networks to a sufficient degree, and because it would go on forever.

Posted by Jeff Brokaw 2004-1-14 11:11:16 AM|| [http://jeffbrokaw.net/weblog/] 2004-1-14 11:11:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 I beg to differ with Safire being a conservative or not. He's the New York Times conservative fig-leaf so they can claim they are impartial. From a bio page I found: "He worked on the first Eisenhower Presidential campaign and later became a senior speechwriter in the Nixon White House. Sounds conservative to me. link to bio

Posted by ruprecht 2004-1-14 12:49:30 PM|| 2004-1-14 12:49:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Nixon? Gimme a break. Nixon was all about power, even if it involved socialism.

Working for Nixon hardly qualifies one as conservative. Remember the Wage and Price controls he put in his policies? The guy was an old line Banker/Lawyer/Big-Business Republican, not a Conservative by any stretch.

Republican Conservatism started with Barry Goldwater (following W.F. Buckley), and was brought to the national forefront by Ronald Reagan.

Posted by OldSpook 2004-1-14 4:06:37 PM|| 2004-1-14 4:06:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I voted for Noxion. And then he went cosmo. But give him credit where its due, but only!

Posted by Lucky 2004-1-15 12:28:06 AM|| 2004-1-15 12:28:06 AM|| Front Page Top

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