Posted on 09/13/2006 8:43:18 AM PDT by GMMAC
Who the heck is James H. Fetzer, PHD, and does he have any qualifications, even basic high school physics or chemistry, far less university level physics or engineering, to categorically deny NIST's explanation of why the buildings fell? I have some understanding of those topics and I find the explanations that have been given quite convincing - certainly more convincing than the wild ramblings of the 9/11 conspiracy nutbags.
...I continue optimistic about what can be done, should we summon the will to do it. I have written repeatedly that a robust and unified Western response to "Islamofascism" could fling it quickly onto the trash-heap of history, to join Nasserism and Baathism and other earlier manifestations of Arab nationalism and socialism. Smack it hard, without apology.
My pessimism is founded in the fear that this robust and unified response cannot be mobilized. We have a huge fifth column in the West, and it is not the Muslim immigrants. They become radicalized only because our "victim culture" encourages them to nurture their grievances. Yet most, despite temptation, remain good, decent people, doing their share of the West's work.
Our real enemy is within us, in the immense constituency of the half-educated narcissists pouring from our universities each year -- that glib, smug, liberal, and defeatist "victim culture" itself, that inhabits the academy, our media, our legal establishment, the bureaucratic class. The opinion leaders of our society, who live almost entirely off the avails of taxation, make their livelihoods biting the hands that feed them, and undermining the moral order on which our solidarity depends.
Nailed It!
Moral Clarity BUMP !
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So many complaining President Bush is not a great communicator, it's odd to me they have no problem explaining what he has said.
Nothing works better than just plain English.
I'm sure if the president wanted to use big words, his speech writers could easily insert them.
After all, there are more of us every day people voting than English professors.
Yes - very well stated.
The problem that most Westerners do not understand, and apparently neither does Mr. Warren, is that in Islam. there is NO differentiation between the political and the spiritual.
Good article, unexpected ending, but makes sense. I almost laughed out loud at the last paragraph which would be hard to explain at work.
"Our real enemy is within us, in the immense constituency of the half-educated narcissists pouring from our universities each year -- that glib, smug, liberal, and defeatist "victim culture" itself, that inhabits the academy, our media, our legal establishment, the bureaucratic class. The opinion leaders of our society, who live almost entirely off the avails of taxation, make their livelihoods biting the hands that feed them, and undermining the moral order on which our solidarity depends."
Amen to that and they all need a severe a$$ kicking!
You ask what is our policy? I will say: it is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory Victory at all costs, Victory in spite of all terror, however long and hard the road may be; for without Victory there is no survival.
Winston Churchill, 1940
I pray that, as a society, the US has the strength and courage for victory.
Lando
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
bump
We need a Churchill for this Age.
<< "Mr Bush, much the less eloquent of the two.."
Mr Bush's speeches have been far better than Tony Blair >>
Absolutely.
The dedicated socialist, Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair, stands with one jack-booted foot and one side of his head facing and talking to his Euro-peon Neo-Axis masters. And the other, point-shoe-clad, foot and one of his faces turned and simultaneously talking toward the West.
My reference was to this board: Free Republic.
And, yes, I am familiar with the practice of taqiyyah and kitman. But I am not prepared to believe that they universally apply to all Islamics in all of their relationships with the West and Westerners. Not any more than I am willing to believe that capital punishment and war are proscribed by the Ten Commandments -- though some Christians believe that it is.
Just as there are many different readings of The Bible, I understand there are basically four schools of interpretation of the Koran. Only one of them is jihadist and necessarily inimical to all other cultures (including other Muslims, obviously).
I give Blair lotsa credit though. He has been steadfast in his support for America.
good read and good posts, also see #15
thanks Tolik!
oooops, meant #13 (but 15 is fine, too)...
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