The reliance on our TROP® strategy is merely a failure of leadership. A more realistic approach would require too strong a shift in policy. It's going to be painful, like pulling out a splinter.
I think this is true. I believe the problem is that the Govts can't act yet because the lefties and PC attitudes in Western countries prevent a strong response. Each Govt is waiting for a bad enough incident in its country which will give them permission to stamp ddown hard. (I hope that is the situation)
If there is an act of terrorism on the U. S. mainland greater than the events of 9/11 before that election then the dimocrats can kiss their Party good by. They are going to be held personally responsible by an overwhelming MAJORITY.
See, right away, they lead off with a LIE, which makes reading the whole story sort of pointless.
Both GWB and Blair have stated that there WILL be future attacks and we can not stop them all. This was stated virtually from day one. This is simply the Liberal media chanting their current mantra that the war makes us less safe and we should cut and run and turn the entire world over to the Jihaddists.
Before 77, in the US, people, politicans, and MSM became complacent since 3 1/2 years passed since 911. Our courts bending over backwards to give the islamic murderers at GITMO legitimate citizen rights. Airheaded bimbos like Ariana Huffington fighting for islamic terrorist rights. The western world has got to come to the realization that Islam is a breeding ground for terrorism. Now, post 77 and 911, mullahs and imans are still preaching hatred of Christians and Jews but added a new spin. The islamics are portraying themselves as victims and needing special protection while preaching their never ending hatred of everything non-islamic and they must be allowed to visit any country to continue their aggressive, hate-filled way of thinking.
As soon as these democracies grant Islam the status of a faction, Muslims begin to campaign for the overthrow of the very constitutional structures that make them a viable faction. If Islam were ever to gain majority power, then it would in turn overthrow the entire constitutional apparatus of secular democracies and replace constitutional law with Sharia, or Islamic law.
That, my friends, makes islam, by definition, incompatible, indeed inimical to a representative democracy.
It is the perfect "embodiment" of the "suicide pact" that democracy is susceptible to, and the only certain way to kill it.
The mindless and the ignorant embrace rules and institutions as an end in themselves. More deliberate thought confirms that they always serve a higher purpose, usually the protection and the survival of the institution itself, for the benefit of the people adopting it. Once this purpose is frustrated or erased, the institution itself is useless, indeed, becomes invariably a tyranny.
For those who think we can't deport, isolate or outlaw Muslims, we managed to do it for both the Nazis and the Communists and most people didn't lose a wink of sleep worrying about it. It was either "them" or "us".
Just because this cult of totalitarian genocide calls itself a "religion" should not mean a whit to those of us who are concerned with our own civil and religious freedoms. Why should we permit them the freedom to destroy us just because they have a "religious" outlook? So did the Nazis and the Communists!
This mirrors my thinking for some time. If you can't stand your neighbor simply don't have anything to do with them and remove all points of contact.
In this case, however, limited trading entrepots would be beneficial to both sides.
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