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2005-09-14 Fifth Column

Boston Globe Editorial - 'Time to Talk to Al-Qaeda?'

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Posted by Bob Seger 2005-09-14 14:17|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Nuts!

Posted by JackAssFestival 2005-09-14 15:14|| 2005-09-14 15:14|| Front Page Top

#2 In the Boston Globe's little fantasy world, this is considered doable. And it'll get done just about the same time gay marriage is legalized in Afghanistan.
Could be why the last time I bought a Globe was when I was paper training one of my German Shepards...

Posted by tu3031 2005-09-14 15:15|| 2005-09-14 15:15|| Front Page Top

#3 By Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou. That explains it all. Just like Martin Borman writing editorials for the Washington Post in 1943. What, our grandfathers had a better survival skills than to do that? Deport his ass.

Congrats old money, tired, blue blooded America. You send your kids to Harvard and pay $40,000 per year for the priveledge so that people like Mohamedou can destroy you.

Posted by ed 2005-09-14 15:36|| 2005-09-14 15:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Harvard and many, many other elite institutions have become breeding grounds for terrorist apologetics and cultural nihilism.
There is a simple reason for this: the elitists in the media and the academic world are more afraid of terrorists and rioting leftists than they are of Americans. This must change.

We bomb and shoot low-level jihadis in Afghanistan and Iraq in wholesale numbers. Yet far more important enemy operatives not only work freely in this country, they are rewarded for doing so.

The fifth column is right about one thing: This is a class war, but the opposing classes are almost the direct opposite of what the professional liars in academia and the media represent them to be.

The terrorists and their apologists represent the ruling class of cultural elitists and academic activists; as well as the sizable portion of the business community that has been bribed or coerced into supporting elitist and Islamic goals.

The opposition, the loyalists, are the working and middle classes of this country. The popular resistance continues to take shape as alternate media like LGF and Rantburg work to clarify the actual nature of the conflict.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-09-14 16:17|| http://www.nuclearspace.com]">[http://www.nuclearspace.com] 2005-09-14 16:17|| Front Page Top

#5 As I left Boston on Sunday, I randomly turned the car radio to an NPR station which was broadcasting a sermon, which after a long wander through the parable of the unforgiving slave, got to the heart of the matter: the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were evil! Un-Christian!

The minister seemed to be arguing that al-Queda wasn't worth a war, let alone two. That we should, instead, be forgiving them their evils, not seven times, but seventy plus seven times. (Has anyone been keeping track of the numbers of al-Queda terrorist attacks? I'm pretty sure they've long since passed 77, but I haven't done the reckoning, so I can't be positive...

This is the quietism being broadcast on a publicly supported broadcaster on the anniversary of September 11th. It isn't that the left is uniformly not religious - it's that those which *are* religious are either Islamic converts or seem to have devolved into some lowest-common-interdenominational form of Quakerism!

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2005-09-14 16:32|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2005-09-14 16:32|| Front Page Top

#6 "Though dismissed widely, the best strategy for the United States may well be to acknowledge and address the collective reasons in which Al Qaeda anchors its acts of force."

Fuck that. A far better strategy is for us to motivate them to acknowledge and address the collective reasons in which we anchor our acts of force.

Grab them by the nuts and yank HARD-- and their hearts and minds will follow eagerly.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2005-09-14 17:02|| 2005-09-14 17:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Folks, the MSM (including the Boston Globe) surrendered long ago to Binny. They are just stating the obvious now.

Posted by Captain America 2005-09-14 17:20|| 2005-09-14 17:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Yes WE HAVE A WINNER!! The STUPIDEST editorial of the year. Despite FIERCE competition from the NY Times (especially Krugman and Dowd) - the award goes to the Boston Globe.

Posted by DMFD 2005-09-14 18:02|| 2005-09-14 18:02|| Front Page Top

#9
I'd like somebody to ask Biden, Dean, Boxer,(somebody help her with it), Pelosi, etc. if they believe that should be the strategy in the war on terror.

Posted by macofromoc 2005-09-14 18:50|| 2005-09-14 18:50|| Front Page Top

#10 As they've said in Israel for a long time, no Arabs=no terrorism.

Posted by mac 2005-09-14 19:07|| 2005-09-14 19:07|| Front Page Top

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