Posted on 04/06/2006 4:33:24 AM PDT by Mr170IQ
I didn't need that after reading that story...
We aren't eradicating ANYONE.
You can just drop that line of thinking right now.
"Three words that any Replayer or time traveler visiting here from a century or more from now would react to first and most emotionally... I"
They are from the story... telling about how we completely missed who the enemy was, and so missed our chance to stop them.
“Let’s imagine,” said the Time Traveler, “that on December eighth, Nineteen forty-one, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt spoke before a joint session of Congress and asked them to declare war on aviation.”
War on Terror
The Islamic movement is fragmented.
Most Muslims live in dictatorships ruled by repressive measures designed to keep them down.
The bleeding tactics don't seem to be working in Israel all it has entailed is the determination of the Israeli nation to survive.
And most of there attacks have been ineffectual, apart from a few successes most of them are caught before they even start there campaigns in the West.
The IRA with fewer resources fought a harder bloodier fight in Britain.
And in the end we had a peace deal with none of the points the IRA fought for attained.
And the out breeding is a myth, since those born in western countries don't as rule favor large families.
I feel to you the war is lost you seem to see Islam has this huge monolithic force.
I see it as a corrupt weak system that relies in force and repression to survive, it attracts the same individuals as Communism did.
And I remember the same arguments about the Communists and their plans for world domination.
Time and time again we were told we had to be more ruthless that the regimented and ruthless communists who were going to win aided by the 5th columnists in West Europe and the USA.
And they had the mighty Soviet Union and Communist China behind them.
Everyone was so busy looking at the Communist threat nobody noticed the cracks and fault lines within the system.
The same cracks and fault lines that exit in Islamic society
Why not?
This always leads to fundamentalism and religious law where no governments exist.
The idea is that with stability, the fundamentalism will have little reason to continue and will eventually devolve as believer groups become smaller and other more moderate thinking groups take the reigns.
The problem seems to be the idea that somehow results will be noticeable and immediate.
The changes will not be perceptible to anyone but the most intuitive in the short term and need to be measured over decades.
It will happen because it must happen and as long as we stay the course and bring to bear a combination of subtle pressures backed up by military force, we can, in the fullness of time, bring about major changes in this region.
We must use every tool in the box, and understand that gratifications will not come to those in the present time line.
It drives me almost mad to refrain from getting angry at those with such short sighted vision that they cannot project into the future and remain locked tightly into the present.
But, such is life.....
I only ask that people use some modicum of foresight to deal with this issue, or nothing will be done as is and has been the case with so many major issues involving cultures and strategic planning.
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If perpetuated by an Islamic army, some would claim it to be evidence that the entire faith needed to be eradicated. That, of course, did not turn out to be the case. In much of the world (including the US), Roman Catholicism has evolved into one of the most tolerant of faiths.
-Eric
Why?
'three words I will not share here in this piece ...
That rules out 'All your base are belong to us!'
Your playing of the "islamophobe" card simply undescores the poverty of your ideas.
I prefer the word "islamonausea" or islamocontempt" to define the enemy.
Being a useful idiot, veteran or not, is not a comfortable position to be in today, with the world awakening to a serious threat to everyone, albeit a primitive one.
Warning! This is a high-volume ping list.
three words?
I often wonder what would have happened, had not the "New Testament" been written or brought to the forefront.
This process never occurred in Islam, or better said, has yet to occur.
Whatever "police state" you presently fear will pale to insignificance, once you experience the "caliphate", administered by illiterate savages...
Just peruse the signs and the "people" at world-wide demonstrations by the "religion of peace", and reflect...
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