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2005-09-29 Fifth Column

Islam Online on calls by US academics to negotiate with al-Qaeda

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-09-29 00:40|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Wow, so much crap packed into a single article...

The talk with Al-Qaeda and extremists is no longer a taboo subject in the United States with academics setting the change in tone, experts said on Wednesday, September 28.

Then in the next sentence he quotes... another academic. A single academic, let me point out.

Burgat was commenting on a controversial Boston Globe article...

Self-explanatory...

âYet developing a strategy for the next phase of the global response to Al Qaeda requires understanding the enemy -- something Western analysts have systematically failed to do.â

I understand the enemy well enough - they want us to die in large numbers or convert to Islam. How are you gonna 'negotiate' around that wall, Francois?

The United States must end its military presence in the Middle East,

I thought it was only to remove our presence from Saudi Arabia. Give an Arab an inch, he'll take the whole friggin' Middle East.

One of the four would-be London bombers told investigators they were motivated by the Iraq war and not by religious fervor, denying any link to Al-Qaeda network.

Adding to your list of greivances, real and perceived - an enemy you simply cannot placate, therefore impervious to negotiaion.

Posted by Raj 2005-09-29 09:20|| 2005-09-29 09:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach. Those that can't teach become "academics" at Harvard and get to write op/ed pieces for The Boston Globe.

Posted by tu3031 2005-09-29 09:48|| 2005-09-29 09:48|| Front Page Top

#3 âThe United States will not be able to overpower a diffuse, ever-mutating, organized international militancy movement, whose struggle enjoys the rear-guard sympathy of large numbers of Muslims.

How 'bout we just give it try first and see what happens.

Posted by DoDo 2005-09-29 11:27|| 2005-09-29 11:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Where does it say in our Constitution that a bunch of long-haired post-1960's academics have any authority to make federal policy? I've read the document many times, and I don't remember any such clause. US "academics" can say anything they want, can "call upon" the US Government to do this or that, and it has just as much weight as any other citizen.

To counter these loonies, I call for the United States to "facilitate" a regime change in Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, Iran, Sudan and Indonesia, using "any and all means available to the government and people of the United States, without exception".

"Would you like a FATWA with that????"

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2005-09-29 14:22|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2005-09-29 14:22|| Front Page Top

#5 According to Ho Chi Minh own words:

After Tet the North-Vietnamese were on the verge of conceding defeat. It was the sight of the protesters in the US who incited them to persevere.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2005-09-29 16:51|| 2005-09-29 16:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Its been said elsewhere here today but it bears repeating The Enemy Within

Posted by Cheaderhead 2005-09-29 17:39|| 2005-09-29 17:39|| Front Page Top

#7 I think the lesson to be learned from this war is that we need to find a way to DEFEAT Al Qaeda, because if we don't, if we negotiate or some such crap, we will just encourage the next international stateless terror organization to have a go at us. (End of statement of the blindingly obvious.)

Posted by jolly roger 2005-09-29 18:59|| 2005-09-29 18:59|| Front Page Top

#8 âTo be sure, the terrorists can't win this war, but neither can we,â he told AFP.

The solution is simple: when an Al Qaeda member is found, kill him. Repeat as many times as necessary.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-09-29 22:34|| 2005-09-29 22:34|| Front Page Top

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