Tancredo supporting his base.
Hugh said electing aRnie was just what California needs too.
Oh well. ;-)
And he can be an obnoxious blowhard much too often.
And he made little sense given that his recommendation was to nuke Damascus or some such.
It was a politically foolish but correct statement.
Hewitt's a moron that's just kissing liberal ass with an article like this.
Nuking Mecca sounds good to me.
Is Hugh living in fantasyland?
Time for Hugh Hewitt to do some Koran and Hadith/Sunnah study:
http://etext.virginia.edu/koran.html
http://www.hti.umich.edu/k/koran/browse.html
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/
http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari/
I am just starting to study the above to determine if the "War on Terror" is a war with some Wahhabi "extremists" or whether we are at war with Islam. If we are at war with a proven minority (<1%?) of Islam then our tactics would be radically different than if we are at war with the religion as a whole. If the religion as a whole is hostile to all "infidels" then targeting concentrations of the enemy would be justified, as in any war. I don't think Hugh knows if Muslims who aren't advocating violence against infidels are just "lukewarm" Muslims, or if a minority of Muslims are wrong about their religion, and advocate violence.
Though I wouldn't put Tancredo's comments in the same category as Durbin's ... but it's up there with what Newsweek and Isikoff did
He speaks of a devastating attack on the U.S. If the attack is truly "devastating," what kind of response would you expect? Furthermore, if you wanted to prevent a "devastating" attack by suggesting an equally "devastating" attack of no strategic value to us, then the coupling of "devastating" attacks becomes strategic, unless cooler heads prevail.
-PJ
Islam is a perverted "religion." It worships the black rock of Mecca. It worships the ancient temple of Baal. It worships the fallen meteriorite of eons past.
Islam is the root of the first Crusade. Islam is the bastard of Abraham.
Islam is the Johnny come lately to the table of the reverent. In short, it is the late and feble answer to Christ from the impotent groin of Baal. Not only does it fall short, it shames the God of Abraham.
Islam is the infidel. Islam is the shameful. Islam is the godforsaken. Islam is the cause of the misery of today's faithful.
If you think I'm telling the truth, you have the answer in your heart.
Protect your family from these miserable criminals. They deserve the bottom of our feet.
Nuclear response for certain attacks is a NATO doctrine, even the winie Germans and French, understand the principals.
A massive attack deserves a massive response, to the dearest targets of the enemy.
And the other thing is make certain, our exact response is understood by the enemy ahead of their actions.
Islam is a "holy place" religion. It is not at all like global Christianity or post-Second Temple Judaism which can function well with only a symbolic or metaphorical reference to the Holy Land and Jerusalem.
Every good Muslim who can MUST go to Mecca. So the precepts of the religion are fundamentally different from contemporary Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, etc, and the bombing, nuclear or otherwise, would be a devastating blow to Islam's core identity.
As I outlined, there would be leaders and scholars who would transfer devotions to Medina, but this would not be universal and Islam would fracture into a wide variety of smaller sects some more spiritualised, some built on exacting blood revenge by eliminating all Americans.
But of course, once Muslim terrorists have nuked Atlanta, for example, most every American will want Mecca AND Medina nuked... including many who profess otherwise now. It is the way of things.
I knew Hewitt was an idiot, but daaaaang..
Note to Hewitt: Take 2 aspirins and go to bed. You obviously have a fever. You're delusional. Islam is our enemy, and that is exactly who we are at war with.
Really?
So if 55, 65 or even 75 percent of Muslims don't support the repeated and ongoing butcheries of Beslan, Baghdad, London, and Bali, are we supposed to take comfort that 25, 35, or 45 percent of Muslims do support the butchery of "infidels"?
Sorry, Hugh. The recent Pew opinion study - though couched in the brightest of Pollyanna optimism - tells me everything I need to know about the "vast majority of Muslims". And it doesn't even include Saudi Arabia, Syria, "Palestine", Libya, or Yemen.
Glad to see the low numbers for Indonesia and Turkey, which have cultural underpinnings much stronger than the insane and murderous Sunni-Wahabbi pathology.
