Well, obviously this moron has never seen a John Wayne movie...
http://www.mideasti.org/
Did Fowler ever actually SEE a John Wayne movie?
Because life isn't a movie, jackass. It's real and there are real consequences, and the Diplomacy angle fails more often than succeeds.
That's why I always preferred Clint Eastwood. He didn't say much, he just rode into town and started killing people.
Is this why all the 'cool' people are Democrats? (ie: Hollywood types) Because I could really give a rat's butt what the rest of the world thinks of us and for some odd reason all Democrats do. Maybe it is left over from High School and they haven't grown up. Well, then again... I could have cared less then what people thought of me.
Yeah we should waste time of the same collection of rabidly ignorant fools who created this whole mess with Islamic Fundementalism in the 1970s by selling out the Shah of Iran
Huh?
Why is he a former Senator?
Sounds like pretty thin gruel.
Wayne was frequently the only guy who would stand up to the bad guys in his movies. We could do a lot worse.
I can see why this dink is a former...
Actually the idiot was a Senator in that period. The loser was defeated by Paul Coverdell.
Clinton later appointed the idiot loser as ambassador.
Is this a real paper?
I was all for 'imposing' democracy on Iraq, then the rest of the Middle East, too. That was before I realized Islamic hatred in not only a bane to western civilization but to democracy itself. Since people aren't reasoned into their religious beliefs, they can't be reasoned out of them, even at gunpoint. Islam will be Islam. They can have it.
We'll end up pulling out of an Iraq that will sink into civil war and re-emerge a theocracy. It may take a Democratic president. The shame now is how many more Americans will die before we declare victory and come home.
Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton have done more than their share to see to it!
Man, what a dumb@ss!!!
Well, obviously this moron has never seen a John Wayne movie...
Even John Wayne wouldn't have "talked" for 12 years before shooting, like we did with Saddam.
Fanatical Evil cannot be appeased or reasoned with, it must be opposed. That is true "Social Justice". All these mindlessly drones like the author of this article do is empower and aid mass murderers, rapists and other thugs.
Based on the political situation in the region left over from the 1991 Gulf War plus the domestic political consensus built up in BOTH parties since 1991 as well as fundamental military strategic laws, there was NO viable strategic choice for the US but to take out Iraq after finishing the initial operations in Afghanistan.
To start with Saddam's Iraq was our most immediate threat. We could NOT commit significant military forces to another battle with Saddam hovering undefeated on our flank nor could we leave significant forces watching Saddam. The political containment of Iraq was breaking down. That what Oil for Food was all about. Oil for Food was an attempt by Iraq to break out of it's diplomatic isolation and slip the shackles the UN Sanctions put on it's military. There there was the US Strategic position to consider.
The War on Islamic Fascism is different sort of war. In facing this Asymmetrical threat, we have a hidden foe, spread out across a geographically diverse area, with covert sources of supply. Since we cannot go everywhere they hide out, in fact often cannot even locate them until the engage us, we need to draw them out of hiding into a kill zone.
Iraq is that kill zone. That is the true brilliance of the Iraq strategy. We draw the terrorists out of their world wide hiding places onto a battlefield they have to fight on for political reasons (The "Holy" soil of the Arabian peninsula) where they have to pit their weakest ability (Conventional Military combat power) against our greatest strength (ability to call down unbelievable amounts of firepower) where they will primarily have to fight other forces (the Iraqi Security forces) in a battlefield that is mostly neutral in terms of guerrilla warfare. (Iraqi-mostly open terrain as opposed to guerrilla friendly areas like the mountains of Afghanistan or the jungles of SE Asia).
Did any of the critics of liberating Iraq ever look at a map? Iraq, for which we had the political, legal and moral justifications to attack, is the strategic high ground of the Middle East. A Geographic barrier that severs ground communication between Iran and Syria apart as well as providing another front of attack in either state or into Saudi Arabia if needed.
There were other reasons to do Iraq but here is the strategic military reason we are in Iraq. We have taken, an maintain the initiative from the Terrorists. They are playing OUR game on ground of OUR choosing.
Problem is Counter Insurgency is SLOW and painful. Often a case of 3 steps forward, two steps back. One has to wonder if the American people have either the emotional maturity, nor the intellect" to understand. It's so much easier to spew made for TV slogans like "No Blood for Oil" or "We support the Troops, bring them home" or dumbest of all "We are creating terrorists" then to actually THINK.
Westerners in general, and the US citizens in particular seem to have trouble grasping the fundamental fact of this foe. These Islamic Fascists have NO desire to co-exist with them. The extremists see all this PC posturing by the Hysteric Left as a sign that we are weak. Since they want us dead, weakness encourages them. There is simply no way to coexist with people who completely believe their "god" will reward them for killing us.
So we can covert to Islam, die or kill them. Iraq is about killing enough of them to make the rest of the Jihadists realize we are serious. They same way killing enough Germans, Italians and Japanese eliminated the ideologies of Nazism, Fascism and Bushido.
Americans need to understand how Bin Laden and his ilk view us. In the Arab world the USA is considered a big wimp. We have run away so many times. Lebanon, the Kurds, the Iraqis in 1991, the Iranians, Somalia, Clinton all thru the 1990s etc etc etc. The Jihadists think we will run again. In fact they are counting on it. That way they can run around screaming "We beat the American just like the Russians, come join us in Jihad" and recruit the next round of "holy warriors". Iraq is also a show place where we show the Muslim world that there are a lines they cannot cross. On 9-11-01 they crossed that line and we can, and will, destroy them for it
He's an Arabist and an apologist for the various forms of dictators (clerics, sheiks, "royal" dynasties, one-party no-election states, etc) through which those seeking to enforce a "Islam must dominate" ideology maintain power and control. They all oppose true democratic functions soley becuase they would not be able to hold onto power.
Geez, how embarassing for this clown. All the while he held important appointed or elected positions, it was necessary that he be somewhat reticent about his true thoughts and feelings.
But now that he has a chance to talk freely, he reveals himself as a sentimentally vapid ditz.
A corollary to an old proverb: "When trying to build a legacy as a Democrat politician, keep on keeping your dimwit mouth shut."
And in Demspeak: "Dude...gravitas, gravitas,...like shutup!"
It might bother him, but I rather like it.
No way, we just invented fried coke!
IOW, Fowler is a dhimmi on the Saudi payroll.