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You know, Hitler talked to his people before WWII. He sensed the national zeitgeist. He knew the German people felt that the world had treated them unfairly. He knew the German people felt that they had a grand and glorious past, and that after WWI the world had put unfair restrictions on their country, limiting them economicaly and physically. He knew that there was a particular kind of German who would be willing to go risk their lives and kill others if it meant regaining their national glory.

I am sick to death about people telling me I need to "understand" Islam, as if insisting that if I only "understood" all the Muslims have been through, I wouldn't be so quick to condemn them for slaughtering horribly 3000 innocent civilian mothers and fathers for the simple crime of going to work to feed their families. If I only "understood" the hard lives they must live (under the lash of their non-democratic, hardline, religious leaders who chop their hands off, then tell them to be angry with the West because our women actually show their ankles) then I wouldn't be so single-minded as to condemn them for shooting people in the head for kite-flying. If I only "understood" how grand and glorious their culture was a thousand years ago, since they invented the zero and all (allowing heathen infidels like us to enjoy food, shelter, and peace the likes of which they have never known, thanks to the technology they condemn) then I wouldn't be so quick to condemn their culture for not really producing an innovation in a millenium.

Look, Libs out there, I don't need to "understand" Hitler, and appriciate what a rough time Germany had before we had to spill American blood kicking his @$$. The important thing is that I understand how a thourghly evil bastard used his people to try and take over the world by killing millions of innocent people. I clearly see how a bunch of so-called religious leaders have corrupted a generation of people into taking up arms to kill. Same old story, new despots. IMHO, 90% of the Muslim population is welcome to live in the past if they want to enjoy the benifits like starvation, meyhem against their own, and secret police. However, the day 10% of them came around here to try and destroy the rest of us infidels, they had no idea who they were picking on.

I understand Evil when I see it. I have no sympathy for Sauron, Hitler, or the next bully that steps up after we make Bin Ladin a dark smear on the floor. You invented the zero. Great. But even if you gave us flipping cheap fusion power and anti-gravity, if you fail to stand up and condemn the cruel bastards who murdered innocent Americans, and condem them clearly and often, than you are as guilty as the Jehadis that flew into the Towers.

My President is a cowboy. Yippo-yo-kai-yay, get out of the way, locked and loaded. We dragged the "brave and powerful" Saddam out of his hidy-hole, and sometime soon, we will drag the rest of you brave Jehadis out into the daylight. Maybe the next genration will be smarter.

And the disclaimer I should append to the above is:

DISCLAIMER: "This rant applies to Jihadists only, and is not meant to appear threatening or hateful to the surely thousands of Muslims who choose to peacefully live out the tenants of their faith, provided they don't try and convert me by force of weapon, threat, or terrorist activity. My chosen Chistian faith has had occasional mis-steps into violence, something that Christ would not approve of, but has mostly steered clear of that kind of thing in the past 300 years or so. We wish our Muslim brothers the best in coming to terms with the violent overtones of their chosen faith, and hope they will join us in a better world where we do not have to blindly suspect you all of evil because of the deadly, cruel, bigoted, terror acts committed by a few of you."