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2007-08-11 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Sherry 2007-08-11 01:23|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Nuking Cleveland won't help

Doesn't mean it's a bad idea.

Posted by Phil_B 2007-08-11 05:59|| 2007-08-11 05:59|| Front Page Top

#2 "For a start, the author overstates the immediate unity post-9/11. The so-called "singular purpose" of Fall 2001 was mostly illusory."

I posted to this effect yesterday. Within a day of 9/11, a now ex-friend e-mailed me saying his biggest concern was backlash against Muslims living in the U.S.

Huh?

What happened after 9/11 was that a) most of Europe celebrated or thought to themselves that we brought it on ourselves somehow, and that b) about 40% of Americans agreed. The rest of us who weren't already awake, got woken up.

Posted by no mo uro 2007-08-11 07:09|| 2007-08-11 07:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Within hours of the massacre I heard an hallucinatory range of evil nonsense. Even of those who were horrified there was not one who I could convince the attacks were by al Qaeda and not "the Palestinians", the latter reacting due to poverty, etc.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-08-11 08:28|| 2007-08-11 08:28|| Front Page Top

#4 The advantage of Rantburg is that I never throw anything (but spam and trolls) away. Along the top of the main page there are links for 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 years ago. A month from now I'll add the link for 6 years ago from the current date. Or you can click on the Archives link to see what was going on for any given day.

We have our cliches on Rantburg, our running jokes, occasional flamewars, and what have you. We don't have any myths. You can always look it up, and I don't mean in the Koran someplace.

Posted by Fred 2007-08-11 09:03|| 2007-08-11 09:03|| Front Page Top

#5 I don't know what we did to deserve you, Fred (probably nothing at all) - but I'm SO grateful for you and Rantburg.

Notwithstanding trolls and flamewars, Rantburg is an island of sanity in the slough of despond we call the Left™ and the Rest of the World™ (with some notable exceptions*).

*Australia comes immediately to mind.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-08-11 09:32|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2007-08-11 09:32|| Front Page Top

#6 What happened after 9/11 was that a) most of Europe celebrated or thought to themselves that we brought it on ourselves somehow

That, and the expectation that a humbled US would come on bended knee and offer apologies, then its assets and unbridled cooperation to that grand organisation at Turtle Bay. When that didn't happen ("thanks for your expression of concern, Francois. But we have work to do")we ended up with the vituperation and 'lack of cooperation' from France and the rest of the Euro ilk.

Posted by Pappy 2007-08-11 11:56|| 2007-08-11 11:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Muslims are planning on nuking us. They were in Minnesota inspecting our Three Mile Island nuke plant just days after 9-11. It is coming. So why are Americans so complacent about Islam?

It is going take another huge attack before we deal with Islam like we did the Nazis and Japanese during WWII. Sad but true.

Posted by Icerigger">Icerigger 2007-08-11 13:18|| 2007-08-11 13:18|| Front Page Top

#8 I don't know what we did to deserve you, Fred (probably nothing at all) - but I'm SO grateful for you and Rantburg.

Author! AUTHOR! AUTHOR!

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-08-11 16:06|| 2007-08-11 16:06|| Front Page Top

#9 So why are Americans so complacent about Islam?

Bush spewing the Religion of Peace [spit] Kool-Aid certainly doesn't help.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-08-11 16:08|| 2007-08-11 16:08|| Front Page Top

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