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2006-07-13 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

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Posted by Fred 2006-07-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This is categorically impossible. We've been told so often that fighting terrorists makes more terrorists that we must, must I tell you, believe it. So many well intentioned peaceniks cannot be so very, very wrong. If there is a military solution to jihadism, then Iraq would not necessarily be the hopeless quagmire we all know it to be. If war can end terrorism, then Bush may not be the worst President ever and the Chimpy McDeathiburton character every right thinking person can plainly see he is.

Therefore, Basayev must still be alive and the Chechen resistance stronger than ever. It's the only possible way to avoid a particularly unpleasant bout of cognitive dissonance.

Does anybody know where I can get some industrial gauge tin foil? I need a bigger hat.

Posted by Baba Tutu 2006-07-13 01:27|| 2006-07-13 01:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Try the extra heavy duty Reynolds Wrap.......
As for Basayev......I hope Putin puts his head on a pike in his front yard and takes it to the G-8 with him.
I say its all natural selection.......the dumb one die and the smart ones see the dumb ones die and decide that jihad is NOT the growth industry its all cranked up to be.
Just remember this, the only way to defeat terror is terror. The Chechnyans are using terror (human rights violations to you limp wristed lefties out there) to make the separatists very uncomfortable.
AND BTW why do they continue to call a bunch of Muslim extremist goons "separatists" they were trying to establish an AQ base in Russia and put in a Taliban style government/culture. I think the revelations of what the Taliban did in Afghanistan have done a lot to turn some of the more westernized muslim populations OFF to that Gigg.
On a side note, do you suppose that the IDF's kicking a$$ in Gaza and Southwest Iran(Lebanon)will have the same chilling effect on Hezbollah?
Hamas???
AQ?

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-07-13 15:25|| 2006-07-13 15:25|| Front Page Top

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