Posted on 01/06/2008 8:04:55 AM PST by 3AngelaD
That one jumped out at me also.
“...you have stated the conclusion before you have done the analysis.”
Think how many of this nation’s problems this statement applies to.
Anyone unfamiliar with Joseph C. Myers work, “The Quranic Concept of War”...it is a MUST READ and it is here...
http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usawc/Parameters/06winter/win-ess.htm
Thanks for the link. BTTT!
Sometimes you have to decide which hill you want to die on. The gentleman has decided this is his battle to win or lose and had taken the first step. Can’t fault him for that.
Great article.However i don’t think the msm “simply bought into the religon of peace BS”.IMO the msm not only created the label “religon of peace”,but they continue to actively promote islam as the “ROP” simply to advance their agenda.
Does this mean we should have the children play ‘cowboys and Indians’....errr.. Cowboys and Muslims - nowadays? Hardy to say, but we need to do something to retain what is left of “American culture”.
We fought the Japs (yup, Japs, as in 1940) and to make lasting peace, had to basically destroy the Japans culture as it existed from 1920 or so to wars end. For Germany, we utterly destroyed the country and reformed the Govt at gunpoint.
As for the Muzzies, hard to say - the ones we are fightling really are not a State, and in many cases, not even really a Nation - more of a Tribe. That is going to make things difficult to say theleast.
Recent events in Africa show how quickly tribes trump civilization..
bttt
The groups in sub-saharan Africa, and in the Horn of Africa are tribal, although in the Horn there is some ancient state heritage. The heritage of those in Bosnia is state-like, and in Albania more tribal/familial.
Look to Turkey for how some made Islam work beyond the tribal -- under the Ottomans, kidnapped outsiders were drafted as children to be Janissaries -- the Imperial Guard and state police. This precluded tribal grudges and vendettas. The Turkish ruler in the early 20th century, Attaturk, enforced a form of secularism in dress and social habits, attempting to restrain, defang, Islam to the Mosque. No more Janissaries. An experiment. Maybe it has worked. My guess is Attaturk was right -- for the Turks.
General MacArthur made sure Japan learned its lesson, and defeated the Emperor, undid the Emperor worship. Without that timely spiritual repair all the firebombings of Tokyo , or nuking of cities would not have kept the warlike Imperial spirit from reawakening in Japan. Such Timeliness may be most important -- just has it is timely for the blacksmith to strike the metal when read-hot, and useless just seconds later.
Germany was beat on the ground, ground down, their war machine was annihilated, the citizens left begging with gold coins for a loaf of bread, and then nursed by us back to some life. But we had no MacArthur for Germany, they are perhaps unlike Japan, mortally wounded, just lingering long. Birth rates. Their spirit is dead, imo.
How do we defeat the Arab Muslims -- the tribalists of Islam? Only when we realize they are mortally dangerous even when appearing peaceful and friendly if they have any resources beyond barest sustenance. And even then their poisonous flame is not extinguished, but ready to flare up or to start poisonous fires anywhere in the world.
Like in the example of General Sherman and thr destruction of great buffalo herds perhaps we have to take their resources away -- that is the oil. Like President Jackson, perhaps we have to remove them from direct contact with civilization, impounded in isolated reservations, where their scholars and imans can continue their vile studies of extremist Islam, but to little effect on us.
Maybe even Dubai is a way. Give the bastard his easy riches and vices as long has he lives in it, with in, dominated by it. But we can't allow a Saudi Arabia or a mullah-run Iran, of both easy riches and sharia. They are the wells of living poison.
But our President has told us that “Islam is a religion of peace”..
Still employed until March/April as I recall.
Why? Keeping him shut up?
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