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2013-08-17 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Steve White 2013-08-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 "Moderate Muslims would start stepping up to their responsibilities" ...

Whoa, "THE FIVE'S" BOB BECKEL STARTS A TREND???

Never underestimate a man in a bow tie + shoulder straps.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-08-17 00:13|| 2013-08-17 00:13|| Front Page Top

#2 JG may tear them an new one but he is right about people generally being tired of the ME's problems. At least three US generations after WWII have attempted to assist the ME in gaining peace but to no avail. F the Moderate or Radical Mohammedeans,its a stew of your making you eat it, I for one don't care about your problems, figure them out yourselves. And to the American Congress and President, I advise you leave them to their own devices and get the hell out while the going is good.

Posted by Captain Henbane2713 2013-08-17 00:21|| 2013-08-17 00:21|| Front Page Top

#3 "If real friends were threatened, the American people would support coming to their aid."

Why should American security guarantees dissuade anyone from attacking an American ally?

On 9/11 the US suffered a mass fatality attack on the scale of Pearl Harbor and yet the US did not retaliate(*). There was a military response that degenerated into a mission to provide the enemy with hostages and servants and to facility the transfer of danegeld.

The question isn't whether the US would extend any security umbrella to cover allies, it it whether the umbrella, i.e. deterrence exists at all.

When the last Superpower loses a war it really cannot afford to lose there are consequences.

(*) The designation "Infinite Justice" was scrapped in favor of "Enduring Freedom" because of the former's strong connotation of retribution, retaliation and punishment.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2013-08-17 02:28|| 2013-08-17 02:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Excellent read and spot on! Goldberg is a national treasure. Thanks doctor Steve.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-08-17 03:44|| 2013-08-17 03:44|| Front Page Top

#5 NO Moslem is your friend. They don't even make good Americans.

Prejudiced bullshit. No group is all anything. You try telling that to this lot or their founder, Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, USN, Ret'd., or the various parents and community leaders who named their radical offspring to the authorities to keep them from harming others (we've got a number of newspaper accounts of that kind of thing in the Rantburg archives), or the bodies buried in Normandy with crescents on their markers instead of crosses, to which I can personally attest.

If Globalization and prosperity and connectivity are the future, then the Moslem Vision of a World Wide Caliphate...the Paradise of the Sharia Koran for all is absolutely dirtnap doomed.

Well yes. But we won't know until afterward, because that's how it works, for those of us experiencing time linearly and directionally, at least. Those of you who can wander off into the mountains will have a different perspective, of course, but be careful not to get on a path going in the opposite direction -- that's a doozy, I'm told.

Moslems are a phony religion

All religions are real to their believers, even the one about the great spaghetti monster. Also, Moslems are the believers. Islam is the religion.

that never will reach its goal of putting a bag on your head and TELLING you to get your kuffir butt in the air.

Possibly. That's what we're fighting this war to find out.

Spiritually Islam is slavery, their entire history is rotten with it, abuse, oppression and Jizya. Islam is moral shit in the donkey ditch.

Would I be correct in assuming you don't like Islam?

WE, in the United States don't need their problems and we don't need them.

Posted by Threater Flusoper9823 2013-08-17 06:05|| 2013-08-17 06:05|| Front Page Top

#6 I have finally sided with the 'Hell with them' but for different reasons. the many years of one sided PC rules of engagement and phony scandals ( abu grabi anyone?) resulted in either the death of ruination of many fine fighting men and women. The testicular atrophy of our 'leaders'(spit) of both parties is reprehensible. bombs on target to take out the bad guys, leave the place a ruin, then come home. if a baby milk actory or somebody's prize fluffy kitty got harmed, too bad, you supported those worms.
ok, back to my meds now.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2013-08-17 10:57|| 2013-08-17 10:57|| Front Page Top

#7 Threater: Are you a false-flag troll? Because if so, that's a pretty low-down trick.

Posted by Korora 2013-08-17 11:41|| 2013-08-17 11:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Righteous smackdown of a flaming idiot, tw!

I wanna be just like you when I grow up. :-D

Threater: "Too stupid to live" really should be a valid diagnosis. >:-(

"NO Moslem is your friend. They don't even make good Americans"?

What drivel. Maybe you have no Muslim friends - because they've got more sense than to come anywhere near you - but I personally know Muslims who are better Americans than you will ever hope to be.

Posted by Barbara 2013-08-17 12:27|| 2013-08-17 12:27|| Front Page Top

#9 I put toilet bowl cleaner in my toilet and use Rid-X for my septic tank. It works and it's very cheap. I don't expect my toilet bowl to be a dinner plate, and I just want my septic tank to be invisibly unremarkable.

John McCain can kiss my ass...

Posted by M. Murcek 2013-08-17 13:15|| 2013-08-17 13:15|| Front Page Top

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