Arab Spring: From Bad to Worse

National Review ^ | June 1, 2011 | Stanley Kurtz

[chuckee]

Spot on. The US needs to stay out of it. Better they be distracted battling among themselves before they return to their age old excuse of blaming the West for their supposed victimization. They are eternal victims of their own culture.

[MarkL]

This should be called "The Muslim Spring" because it was designed, from the very beginning, to bring a caliphate, led by Iran to power.

And Iran will have nukes soon.

Anyone who didn't see this coming had their head in the sand, though I suppose that many in the State Department and White House secretly long for this.

Mark

[screaminsunshine]

Trade Zone 7 of the New World Order System. It will be like the Euro Zone.

[lentulusgracchus]

Was that dialogue in Lawrence of Arabia based on a record of a real conversation, or was it just screenwriter's "poetry"?

[prairiebreeze]

read later

[combat_boots]

Real? Don’t know if Lawrence had it with Feisal.

It’s been an actual conversation and sentiment in many places and schoolhouses since the late 1960s, though. That I know for a fact.

The whole ‘you were great,’ ‘the West was in the Dark Ages’ or ‘London was a village’ are repeated word for word.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks BlackDog. I appreciate the follow-up.

It looks then like a media concoction. Bush did raise the idea, and I did fall for it. For a period of time, it did seem like a good idea, some of the people over there raising up and replacing their leadership.

Once you take Gaza and the West Bank into consideration, you realize that may not be a good idea after all. Even Syria has come under the influenze of Hezbollah in their government.

Oh well..., back to the drawing board.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks BlackDog. I appreciate the follow-up.

It looks then like a media concoction. Bush did raise the idea, and I did fall for it. For a period of time, it did seem like a good idea, some of the people over there raising up and replacing their leadership.

Once you take Gaza and the West Bank into consideration, you realize that may not be a good idea after all. Even Syria has come under the influence of Hezbollah in their government.

Oh well..., back to the drawing board.

[blackdog]

The faithful to Islam in it's book form as read in the Koran is incompatable with democracy and it's liberties. The religion itself is "To Submit", or "Obey".

Prerequisites are a bitch. If you choose to ignore or put them off, you certainly pay the price on the disasterous back end. That is where we are regarding free democracies and Islamic States, the back end and we can't let go or go back to square one and start over.

I don't blame islam. They have been that way in a rather direct manner for centuries. It's the rest of the world who bought into the notion that riots, mobs, lynchings, stonings, beheadings, honor killing of women and girls, etc... were symptoms of an opressed people yearning for more freedom and liberty to do something different.

We are truely a box o' rocks.

[DoughtyOne]

Okay. Thank you.