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Re: What Will Qaddafi’s Death Teach Our Enemies? (Mark Steyn)
NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE ^ | October 20, 2011 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 10/20/2011 2:31:40 PM PDT by neverdem

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To: LibertarianInExile
Either that or Genghis Con (Obama - pun intended) is hoping to recreate the Ottoman Empire.

I thought he hated war; seems he just hates wars that benefit America.

21 posted on 10/20/2011 3:10:28 PM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Hey, Hippie...Occupy a LIFE!)
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To: neverdem
If you make deals with the united states government they are not worth spit and getting your hand on nuclear weapons with a dead man trigger is the only safe option.
22 posted on 10/20/2011 3:38:19 PM PDT by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow demorats.)
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To: neverdem

The killing of Qaddify and Osama suggests one thing to me: They were killed to keep them quiet, they should have been a treasure trove of information, some of it about the CIA, I’m sure, and it is that information that really got them killed..


23 posted on 10/20/2011 3:41:21 PM PDT by The Wizard (Madam President is my President now, and in the future)
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To: dfwgator
Just cannot understand why people cannot see what happened here, the ragtags could not do anything, then a month later thousands poured out of the mountain, that knew how to use the weapons and drive tanks. Just wave the magic stick. No one ask where the professional solders came from .
24 posted on 10/20/2011 3:44:12 PM PDT by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow demorats.)
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To: Ernie Kaputnik
But at least they won't waterboard you. ;)
25 posted on 10/20/2011 3:58:42 PM PDT by teenyelliott (www.therightscoop.com/herman-cain-brings-the-house-down-at-values-voter-summit/)
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To: The Wizard

Your post is 100% insightful.


26 posted on 10/20/2011 4:19:09 PM PDT by BlackVeil
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To: TheOldLady; Rummyfan; Howlin; riley1992; Miss Marple; Dane; sinkspur; steve; kattracks; ...

Mark Steyn ping.

Freepmail me, if you want on or off the Mark Steyn ping list.

Thanks for the ping neverdem.


27 posted on 10/20/2011 7:39:30 PM PDT by JLS (How to turn a recession into a depression: elect a Dem president with a big majorities in Congress)
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To: The Wizard

You’re right.


28 posted on 10/20/2011 7:47:28 PM PDT by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: Ernie Kaputnik

Nah, I disagree. I think is tells them:

“Don’t endorse Obama, because if he wins, he’ll support, encourage and endorse the execution of you and your family.”

Haha this^^— Atleast with Bush, it got you a flight out of the country to support terrorism another day. Obama is just an asshole to his fellow Muslims. Jusst straight up kills his brothers in Allah. What the hell did Gaddafi tell Reverend Wright to get this treatment.


29 posted on 10/20/2011 7:59:45 PM PDT by Osamabindead
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To: LibertarianInExile

exactly


30 posted on 10/20/2011 8:31:43 PM PDT by dervish (female candidates: the last frontier)
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To: neverdem
Like Steyn, I think it teaches them to stay on the offensive.

Full steam ahead with the jihad. Go out guns a blazing like Butch and Sundance, or you'll find yourself dragged out of a whole in the ground and executed like a punk.

Might not be the lesson we want to teach, might not be any alternative, but that's how I'd read it if I was in charge of my militant little miserable islamic sand puddle.

31 posted on 10/20/2011 8:47:49 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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I agree.

The French military gets a lot of grief her on FR. The problem is NOT the French military, they are quite professional.

The problem is the French politicians, but even they can be expected to ACT when French national interests are at stake.

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32 posted on 10/20/2011 8:58:27 PM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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Any guesses why Obummer support violent revolution only in countries seen as pro-Western?
33 posted on 10/20/2011 10:21:03 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster; dead

Bambi always comes down on the side of the Islamists, and without denying the fact that Murbarak and Qadaffi were dictators, both of them were opposed by Islamist forces (who also wanted to set up dictatorships, but purely Islamic ones).

But the other thing I have noticed about this is that the US is now consistently opposing the rule of law and in a sense the existence of states. Obama has a great fondness for mob action, as we are seeing with the Occupy Whatever people, and I think he also regards the modern nation state, usually having a constitution and governed by law, as something to be stamped out. Like the thoroughgoing Marxist that he is, he is seeking to install the Marxist dream of the dicatorship of the proletariat (the mob, actually) throughout the world. I think his true goal is to reduce all ME countries to the status of Somalia, that is, simply to territories controlled by lawless bands of Muslim thugs.


34 posted on 10/21/2011 12:33:58 AM PDT by livius
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To: livius

Obama is also systematically removing any leaders of Muslim countries who were in any way tolerant of a State of Israel.


35 posted on 10/21/2011 4:42:46 AM PDT by maica
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To: neverdem
"Bernard Lewis said a few years ago that, in the Middle East, America risks teaching the lesson that she is harmless as an enemy and treacherous as a friend."

Boy has this quote served to be prescient.

36 posted on 10/21/2011 10:22:41 AM PDT by monkeyshine
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37 posted on 10/21/2011 10:38:51 AM PDT by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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Our enemies will learn that we won’t touch any despotate, no matter how despotic, if it has A) nuclear weapons or B) is Cuba.


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To: maica

Bingo!


39 posted on 10/21/2011 6:50:47 PM PDT by momincombatboots (Look out Left Coast, we are coming and we have Bibles and Guns! LOL)
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To: dfwgator
Syria is different than Libya. Which is why Obama isn’t doing anything about it.

Somehow, The Won has avoided in involvement in two Middle East uprisings -- Iran and now Syria. Both nominal enemies.

But gotten us involved in every other one -- all of them nominally on our side. And the Islamist movement benefitted from every one of them.

Wonder why the distinctions...???

40 posted on 10/21/2011 7:03:21 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)
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