Mark Steyn: These five regimes must go -

The Spectator - UK ^ | November 29, 2003 | Mark Steyn

[maica]

...everyone — from the body that approves Muslim chaplains for the US armed forces to the diplomat the Pentagon sent to investigate Saddam’s nuclear contacts in Africa, to the companies supplying voting machines for next year’s elections — turns out to be on the Saudi shilling

I want to know more about this!!! Paging John Ashcroft!

[LisaFab]

Thanks for the ping Poke. Hope you had a nice Thanksgiving.

[Lando Lincoln]

thanks - bttt

[G Larry]

Syria is #1 for other reasons he doesn't state.
Saddam & UBL are most likely residing there at this time!
Mark this post, then wait and see.

[MeekOneGOP]

Amazing, but good to hear (I think) ...

[Carry_Okie]

Brazil and Venezuela are way higher on my list than the Sudan or Saudi Arabia.

[Criminal Number 18F]

This guy is a flipping genius. A couple of examples:

Steyn: Membership in one group does not preclude simultaneous membership in another.

I've been saying for a while that membership in the groups is to some extent fungible. The difference is, that Mark Steyn was able to put this together in his NH study, and I had to go to Afghanistan to see it in action: it was quite possible for a guy to be a member of the Jamiat-i-Islami (Massoud's guys, Tajiks, the core of the Northern Alliance and basically good guys), the Taliban (Omar's guys, bad guys), and al-Qaeda (really bad international bad guys). If we scarfed him up for something he did when he was wearing his TB hat, we had to expect a protest from the local Jamiat general (Aghan "general": anybody who has more than six full-time followers) and probably a rocket from State or HQ after the general went to his boss, Mohammed Fahim Khan (who wore the two hats of head Jamiat warlord, and Defence Minister in the Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan).

Steyn: the Iraq–Syria frontier ... certainly porous, [but] porousness cuts both ways.

Simply brilliant. And if the PTB are looking forward, what they are doing now is recruiting and organising the core of a "Free Syria" movement that will put Bashir Assad's dictatorship on the defensive. Let him worry about spray-painted slogans and things that go bang in the night.

The key to winning a war on global islamist terrorists, is fighting that war not where the terrorists would like (among our women and children) but where we would prefer (in their back yard).

They key to fighting that war is to have muslims who reject islamist terrorism fight for a just and righteous government in their own nation -- or at least, if they are going to have a medieval dictatorship, one that is hostile to Islamist terrorism (viz., Egypt). I think the Saudis are moving crabwise in that direction. They hate to see the line drawn from their clerics to their terrorists, but the terrorists are making it unavoidable.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[NormsRevenge]

Check this out.

Chavez appoints radicals to head Venezuelan passport agency - reports of Arabs obtaining ID documents

Whatever happened to the Monroe Doctrine?

I know we are assisting a few Latin and South American govts in different ways, but when do we drop the boot on their int'l supporters?

Or is the War on Terror next list have the LooLoo in Brazil and Chavez in Venezuela folks penciled in already?

One can only hope.

Between the Chinese influence potentials re" the Panama Canal and stuff like this, what a mess we have right on our doorsteps and borders.

[WarrenC]

C.N. 18F - Read your page. Thanks for what you've done/are doing to make the world a better place.

[iconoclast]

Interesting that he ranks Syria as #1 to be regime changed instead of Iran.

Maybe he's morphed into a total Neocon.

It's simple ... Syria's easier.