From Al Qaeda's viewpoint, Iran and Syria are "neutral" today in the same sense as was fascist Spain (Franco) during WW2 to fellow fascist nations Italy (Mussolini) and Germany (Hitler).
Posted on 08/03/2006 10:03:58 PM PDT by FairOpinion
A 2004 al-Qaeda Strategy Manual can now be downloaded at West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center website here.
The translation of this manual by al-Qaeda strategist, Abu Bakr Naji, was completed in May by the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University.
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From Al Qaeda's viewpoint, Iran and Syria are "neutral" today in the same sense as was fascist Spain (Franco) during WW2 to fellow fascist nations Italy (Mussolini) and Germany (Hitler).
Seems to me the more pressing enemy is liberalism, socialism, communism and associated PC among our own ranks. Take that away, and the rest of us will muster the will to do what must be done, just as the WWII generation did, without question. The enemy is counting on elements within our own societies to constrain us from using the full capability at our disposal. That is the only way they have a chance of winning. Unsheath the sword, show them the true face and meaning of war as western world invented and perfected over the centuries, and I am willing to say that within 6 months we would not have this problem anymore.
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Very much agree with you. Wish I wasn't so skeptical it will happen that way.
Not going to read this now. It might be mentoned that they might be successful since they have, if nothing else, a strong morality. Over here we have moral relativism, which is no morality at all or the absence of morality. We have existentialism, which is kind of like being an idiot child in a dark woods full of wolves and bears.
Thanks much.
Printing off the 25 page one.
Anyway we could uhhhh . . . force feed such to . . . uhhhh . . . traitorous liberals in the US SENATE including Shrillery? Both ends would be OK with me.
Or, maybe we could wall paper their houses? Cars? Stuff their cars full of it?
Encase them in paper mache made of it?
Sigh.
More seriously . . . seems to me billboards of this on key freeways of the nation . . . excerpts . . . would do a lot to raise patriotism and get some survival anger wound up to more appropriate levels.
Ah but it is a point of deterrent. It is to scare the 'moderate' muslim so that he is far more scared of what we will do than the jihadis. Jihadis might kill him if he doesn't do as they say, but if the 'moderate' thought we would not only kill him but also his family and everyone he ever knew indiscriminantly if the Jihadis go through, we might find that a majority of them really doesn't want to die Jihadi way.
Being the student of Machiavelli, and if the muslim street is going to be controlled by fear (and it certainly will not be controlled by coddling and cowtowing), let it be by a fear greater than jihadis can create. The west *can* create such fear. It's just a question of imagination, capability, and will. We have the imagination and the capability. The will is being constrained by the delusional left.
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