Posted on 08/22/2006 7:18:24 AM PDT by ZGuy
Option 1 is a retreat in the face of the enemy. It would mean more than disengagement from the Middle East, it would mean retreat worldwide. It is not a realistic option.
True. But he hasn't surfaced yet. When he does, we'll know him, just like we knew Reagan was "it".
The Coming Populist Revolt will have to deal with this first, IMO.
The Origins of Political Correctness
An Accuracy in Academia Address by Bill Lind
http://www.academia.org/lectures/lind1.html
:')
The key development in the war with the Hizzies was that the US resupplied Israel, and didn't ask either permission or forgiveness. Israel is going to have to continue to fight for its life, just as the Jews have been doing there since before the foundation of the modern state. I was just reading a May 15th issue of US News and found (p 32) an article about al Qaeda infiltration of the so-called West Bank, and Gaza; also news of a tunnel that some would-be assassins were digging under Abbas' own compound.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/060515/15mideast.htm
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/060515/15mideast_2.htm
A Tough Neighborhood
Is al Qaeda branching out to the Palestinian territories?
By Khaled Abu Toameh and Larry Derfner
5/15/06
snip from your link:
Radical Palestinian Islamic websites openly call for the execution of Abbas and Mohammed Dahlan, the Fatah strongman in Gaza. One calls them "traitors who have aligned themselves with the American Satan and the Zionist enemy." Fatah still has far greater firepower, controlling the PA's 58,000-member security apparatus, but Hamas recently began organizing one of its own...
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Arabs continuing the proud history of one tribe slaughtering the other...hopefully.
Who spilled the beans on the plot to blow up the airlines?
In theory, it'll come out at trial but the bobbies apparently promised not to let the name out.
I think they got the info out of Rauf in Pakistan. Maybe they even tortured him. No offense to the Brits meant. The copoperation and coordination is outstandiong and encouraging imho.
The question is, how many plots like this are going on where nobody's come forward with a tip for them.
Reid, the cop in charge or minister or something, said they have 70 PRIORITY terror investigations going on currently. And that's only the ones they know about and think have a high probability of success.
Ye gods only know how many they don't know about, but it's a lot.
Well, I"m off to bed. nite ;)
As they say, the proof is in the pudding and we are doing well. You can't make yourself crazy about what might be.
You have to admit it -- the French have perfected the art of surrender to the highest levels possible, surrender before a shot is fired or an army is formed.
I agree with you, however, I think most people understand that homeland security and offensive action overseas are not mutually exclusive propositions. The elites would have us believe that we can't close the border, nay that we have no reason to close the border. I think we all know that's bull.
What do you get if you do a three way hybrid of a Crocodile, a Bulldog and a member of a certain sect of an insane cult? Answer, a Crocobullshiite.
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