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Better to Be Feared Than Loved, cont.
The Weekly Standard ^ | 04/29/2002 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

Posted on 04/19/2002 9:20:34 PM PDT by Pokey78

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1 posted on 04/19/2002 9:20:34 PM PDT by Pokey78
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To: Pokey78
Better to Be Feared Than Loved

I don't know about that, but it is easier.

2 posted on 04/19/2002 10:07:50 PM PDT by jlogajan
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To: Feenian
Just when did it become acceptable to think and write like Nazis?

What, may I ask, is Naziesque in this piece?

4 posted on 04/19/2002 11:22:18 PM PDT by NovemberCharlie
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To: Feenian
"when it would take so little to make them friends"

"We should be mending fences and doing what's just and fair"

It seems that all my life we have been doing a lot "to make them friends" and to "mend fences" with little or no results.

6 posted on 04/20/2002 12:28:49 AM PDT by fleur-de-lis
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To: Pokey78
Bttt
7 posted on 04/20/2002 12:41:47 AM PDT by weikel
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To: Feenian
It would take so little to make them friends

Yeah all we need to do is convert to a Taliban regime. Your a moron SAUDI ARABIA MUST BE DESTROYED.

8 posted on 04/20/2002 12:44:47 AM PDT by weikel
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To: Feenian
assumption that the Arab is inferior and must be shown his place in the scheme of things

No assumptions involved. Islamist Arab culture of recent years has definitively proved itself to be both inferior and evil. I am not much concerned with their recognition of their place in the scheme of things, but any determination on their parts to do us harm must be defeated using any techniques which are useful and necessary.

10 posted on 04/20/2002 1:05:38 AM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla
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have driven them to do what angry people do--get violent

In civilized societies, when angry people get violent, they get punished. When they kill people, they get executed.

11 posted on 04/20/2002 1:11:18 AM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla
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To: Feenian
It makes absolutely no sense to reason as these bozos do and multiply enemies when it would take so little to make them friends.

Then kindly step across the line and make "friends" with them. Only don't count on me being your friend.

Like it or not, sides MUST be taken in this conflict. Which side are you on? There is no middle ground.

12 posted on 04/20/2002 1:16:00 AM PDT by rdb3
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It is Israel that stands in the way of our building closer ties in the region, not because we befriend Israel--the Arabs accept that--but because we tolerate Israeli belligerance and supply the means for her to pursue aggressive policies.

ANTI-ZIONIST ALERT!!! ANTI-ZIONIST ALERT!!!

And a member since April 13, 2002, to boot.

13 posted on 04/20/2002 1:18:10 AM PDT by rdb3
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Get ready, musli boy. The new coordinates have already been dialed in. We're on to you now. Never forget it.

14 posted on 04/20/2002 1:22:13 AM PDT by The Great Satan
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It is disliked because its policies ignore the rights of others and have driven them to do what angry people do--get violent.

Did my people, American blacks, "get violent" during the height of the Jim Crow era? Did my people, American blacks, "get violent" when they were treated blatantly as second-class citizens in this nation? Did my people, American blacks, "get violent" when they were segregated?

Of course not!

Stop making excuses for evil, fool. What differentiates you and European opinion? NOTHING! What differentiates you and Leftist opinion on Israel? NOTHING!

You have the gall to criticize Israel for doing exactly what we are doing at this very moment, and that's fighting terrorism. But you apply a double-standard. When a 10-year old so-called Palestinian boy is strapped with bombs around his body and kills himself and Israeli soliders, in your mind, it is understandable. But when Israel decides to defend itself, you cry foul.

Beam me up, Scottie. The Enterprise is leaving the galaxy!

15 posted on 04/20/2002 1:26:09 AM PDT by rdb3
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You've been here less than a week. You obviously have no idea what the tenor of this forum is ... so do allow me to help you, dear.

This article isn't " banging war drums " and if you see " racism ". it's in your own perception and you are therefore projecting. Most FREEPERS , though vast reading , intellect, and the ability to reason logically, want the USA to have a spine, not capitulate with terrorists, and know that all of the constant whinging about " talking " and diplomacy doesn't work with the Muslim fanatics.

There is indeed a Muslim mind set. When and IF they see someone / soe country as strong and not willing to take their form of garbage, they stop pulling it. They have looooooooooooooooooooooooooooong memories, and what happened many centuries ago, still consumes them. OBL hyperventilating over the Moorish loss of Spain, is but one example. The way for us to stop terroism in its tracks, is to to show them that we aren't the " paper tiger " they think we are.

16 posted on 04/20/2002 1:29:39 AM PDT by nopardons
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We should be mending fences and doing what's just and fair, not picking sides in historic disputes that have no right and wrong but depends on which side of the looking-glass you're staring into.

You've been reading Lewis Carroll again, Feeney. You may have time to stare at your navel thru the looking glass, but terrorists are busy on real-world streets and must be stopped. They blew up their own fences years ago well beyond the point of "mending."

17 posted on 04/20/2002 1:32:16 AM PDT by PoisedWoman
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Don't help this fool, sister. He or she probably has been banned, and is acting under another screen name. Or, has changed identities to mask who he or she truly is.

Screw 'em! Allow those who takes this opinion to be in the line of fire since they love the Paliban so dagum much.

18 posted on 04/20/2002 1:32:58 AM PDT by rdb3
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To: rdb3
Allow those who takes take. . .

Pardon me (no pun intended). ;-)

19 posted on 04/20/2002 1:35:27 AM PDT by rdb3
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To: rdb3
You are most probably correct, my FRiend . I was just trying to give him / her a small eye opener. LOL

N/P with the typo. I make them ALL of the time and you are " pardoned ". ; ^ )

20 posted on 04/20/2002 1:43:46 AM PDT by nopardons
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