Posted on 10/20/2001 10:12:17 AM PDT by mercy
Perhaps our nations PC attitudes and actions in this time of war are not what they seem. Maybe our top elected officials (right now I'm not willing to call them leaders) have employed a cover designed to fool the outside world and cover our true objectives. It could be that our actual objective is to buy time while we take control of Afghanistan in order to establish massive forward positions and bases for the 'real war' that is so obviously unavoidable. Islamists world wide are plainly taking over nearly all Muslim countries and World War is their plain objective.
If our present actions ARE disinformation and deceit designed to gain time and position for the necessary massive assaults to come ... I applaud them. I am even willing to absorb the consequences to gain the advantage we must have to fight a war against millions, hundreds of millions, of hostile barbarians now assembling against us and presently prosecuting a terror war possibly to include a war of mass distruction. Those consequences include but are not limited to leaving ourselves open to further massive terror attacks on me and my country. Even if the Islamists (let's no longer call them JUST terrorists) do not have real 'suitcase nukes' they DO have 'dirty nukes'. A dirty nuke is just a bunch of plastique wrapped up in plutonium or other nuclear material. Results equal massive radiation poisoning.
I guess that in order to lull the world, most of which either openly or secretly resents, if not hates us, into momentary inaction our nation is not now taking ordinary common sense actions. Actions like deporting all non citizen Middle Eastern visitors post haste. Not only are we not deporting we are not stopping present infiltration of Islamist terrorists. It looks to me like this is deemed necessary 'for now' by those in control of us for these time buying tactics. I guess our elected officials are afraid that any such common sense actions on our part right now would tip our hand in establishing forward bases in Afghanistan.
OK I can live with this. For a very little while. Even though the chances of the Islamist terrorists killing many MORE thousands of us in the near or not so near future are around one hundred percent.
But all of this is just wishful thinking I am pretty near sure.I think the actual reality is that Political Correctness is become the death of us. What IS PC really when practiced in the face of international aggression prosecuted by an organised multi-national coalition of professional killers? It's just plain ole cowardice. That's all it is.
PC used to be just about cultural disagreements and common arguements about philosophy and mores. It had some validity when discussing affirmative action or gay marriage. It has no validity when it assumes the fore in an effort at plain geo-political survival. Geo-political ascendence, or position jockying ....? ok. Politics and diplomacy are all right when you're trying to remain a nation of nice guys and prove it to the world. Though it is a losing game on that level as well.
But now PCness is suicide. A plain and simple death wish. If we and our elected officials have let PCness be our banner now, with the assembled masses of the Islamist killers at our throats, and it is not just a momentary cover, it is DENIAL practiced on a cosmic scale.
I am going to add one more thought that I DO NOT ADVOCATE but is a real possibility. If our ELECTED officials are not willing to perform the FIRST duty of an oganised society ... that is: Do what is plainly necessary to insure a common defense. Then I am sure there are still many members of the military who ARE willing. IF this gets just a little worse and our controllers continue waffling and failing in the face of the enemy ... our very Republic is in danger for the people will not go quietly. The military WILL be turned loose. I just hope they took that oath to the Constitution serriously and will reestablish the Republic after the war.
The world has changed from the horse and buggy mentality to global or worldwide implications. What may not have been dreamed or thought about a hundred years or so ago is now reality. Thus to me we will never go back to the comfort of what we knew even in my beginning years. We as a nation, as a society, as a world will have interactions with each other that can bring almost instant repercussions either positive or negative.
Now are we prepared to deal with that as a nation? I don’t know but as you point out we may not be. We didn’t get where we are overnight and I don’t think we can turn this ship of state around overnight. Thus can we win or survive long enough to be in position to handle the war as you see coming. It is my fervent hope we can.
I see events like this present one unfolding as each group tries to unleash their form of world dominance. The question is can they pull enough groups together to pull it off. I don’t know but I suspect they have differences of opinion within their various factions such that they will not join in a total alliance to dominate.
Things will be forever changed for us. I hope we as a nation can learn to adapt quickly. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and inviting me to respond.
Bush always understates and always ends up getting what he wants. It has been our policy to use nukes, if needed and if we are under chem/bio attack. The leadership of every nation on earth is well aware of that. Bush will mention that policy when it will do us some good to do so.
This already is World War III.
Unfortunately, they do enjoy the protection of a rogue judiciary, a corrupt Democratic Party, and a cowardly Republican Party.
Oh yeah... and the UN.
They pulled off 9-11, they are running a "probe" of our defenses with the mailed anthrax, and will soon be up to new tricks, such as running a 20,000 gallon tanker truck of gasoline into the lobby of a building at 80MPH. We are only in the opening stages of this war, and our deadliest enemies are living down the street.
Boy! You can say that again. No wait, I'll do it for you.
Unfortunately, they do enjoy the protection of a rogue judiciary, a corrupt Democratic Party, and a cowardly Republican Party.
I really cannot believe how complacent so many are. Gotta be scared stiff denial.
"I don't agree with you. I don't believe that this is Islam vs. the US. The terrorists have distorted their religion, just as we have seen some cult leaders do with other religions."
I've gone from thinking that "moderate, peaceful" Moslems were the Isalmic silent majority on 9/10, to hoping they were on 9/12, to being now resigned to the fact that they are an insignificant irrelevancy within the world of Islam.
President Bush said, "either you're for us, or you're for the terrorists." I don't hear a whole lot of Moslems speaking out very strongly against the events of 9/11. Half the Islamic world thinks that a Zionist conspiracy took down the Twin Towers. A good chunk of the rest thinks America did it. I haven't got much use for such people.
But I'm an open-minded guy, so here's my final offer to any "moderate" mullahs out there:
Roll out a big fat fatwa against bin Laden, Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, PFLP, Sadaam Hussein and family, etc. and bring me their heads on pikes.
Do that, and I'll buy lunch.
Islam is a death cult.
I would expect their use of bio weapons to follow a similar track as they perfect their delivery system.
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She ain't a Christian.
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