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Time for Straight Talk [Hackworth Barf!]
STFF.Org (Hackworth's Column) ^ | 09-15-2003 | David H. Hackworth

Posted on 09/18/2003 7:49:56 AM PDT by jjm2111

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To: Terry Mross
Hackworth only made Light Colonel. Did not going to War College prevent him from making Full Bird?

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I thought he was buzzards up.

41 posted on 09/18/2003 7:32:39 PM PDT by RLK
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To: gaspar
Hackworth should know by now that in the Islamist world, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

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So should Bush. In the Islamic world the first orders of business are to expell the infidels and expand Mohammedism by jihad, which includes all forms of warfare and has for more than fourteen hundred years. Mohammedism is killing a thousand people a day in somewher around twenty or more countries around the world.

If we want to survive, the strategic direction MUST, asolutely MUST, be systematic discrediting and refutation of Mohammedism and exposing it as an aggressively psychotic system of conquest. Without doing that, we are accomplishing absolutely nothing. We must begin with the basic truth. Calling it the religion of peace is sabotaging any attempts to solve the basic problem. Acting as if the problem were Saddam Hussein also sabotages serious long term progress and survival.

42 posted on 09/18/2003 7:44:18 PM PDT by RLK
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To: tscislaw
>>... big bucks for a war against terrorism that has struck the wrong target...<<

I think not. While we have not found any evidence that Hussein was directly involved in 911.Or was in possesion of WMDs.There is more than enough evidence available that he supported,harbored,financed,and trained terrorists.WMD or not his regime was a legitimate target.Saudi Arabia is as well but we have a working relationship with them and it may not be neccessary YET to bomb them to a cinder.I think Syria is next but W does not want to go after them yet and there is still much work to be done in Iraq and Afganistan.
43 posted on 09/18/2003 8:20:53 PM PDT by edchambers (NUKE AND PAVE)
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To: Terry Mross
Hackworth only made Light Colonel. Did not going to War College prevent him from making Full Bird?

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Hackworth is listed everywhere as full bird. If you have contrary evidence, produce it.

44 posted on 09/18/2003 8:28:08 PM PDT by RLK
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To: RLK
I've been listening to this guy yap for more than 20 years and he was always listed as Lt. Col. Maybe he got a promotion when he started attacking Bush. Or I'm probably wrong. I may be thinking of some other talking head.
45 posted on 09/18/2003 9:04:40 PM PDT by Terry Mross
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To: Terry Mross
I've been listening to this guy yap for more than 20 years and he was always listed as Lt. Col. Maybe he got a promotion when he started attacking Bush. Or I'm probably wrong. I may be thinking of some other talking head.

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Ollie North and Hackworth have having a disagreement on some issues. North is always listed as a Lt. Colonel while Hackworth is listed as a colonel. Hackworth was at one time the youngest colonel in the army.

46 posted on 09/18/2003 10:58:09 PM PDT by RLK
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To: RLK
How do you stick your hand into a hornet's nest? Very cautiously. The fact that Bush has called Islam a religion of peace should not be troublesome. Outside of the Kuran, words are just words in the Muslim world. Certainly, the Muslim nations are aware -- even if the American public at large is not -- that the USA takes the "Clash of Civilizations" very seriously, despite the platitudes emanating from the White House.

Most Americans have recently come to the realization that Islam is not some sort of innocuous religious movement. I think that most understand how important a "neutralalized" Iraq and Afghanistan could be in the Middle East schema. From Baghdad it is possible to strike west to eliminate the Assad in Syria and the Ayatollahs in Iran. From Kabul it is possible to maintain an eye on the "stans" and attack the Islamists in northern Pakistan. Finally, it appears as though the disintigration of Indonesia has begun. Perhaps in the next ten years Java will see the loss of West Irian, the Moluccas, Suluwesi and even Sumatra.

History will judge that Osama Bin Ladin did Islam damned few favors. It awakened the United States, and it may have saved Europe from itself.

47 posted on 09/19/2003 4:21:03 AM PDT by gaspar
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To: gaspar
The following from an article I wrote appearing elsewhere:

There are certain ideologies and certain cults or religions that have happened upon systems of mind control and attendant physical control such that there is no way out for people who become involved in them, and no reversal of that control for nations that come under their dominance. There also may not be any peaceful method of resisting territorial expansion of that control should the inclination of those systems be to expand them. In a sense, those systems resemble theoretical virus-induced immune-resistant cancers that spread by infusing virus or control upon healthy cells at the cancer margins, and which metastasize cells and colonies with the same capabilities out into the greater body. Islam is one of those systems. Islamics tend to remain Islamics. Muslim countries remain Muslim. There is, within these systems remarkable immune-resistance to rationality. They are as progressive and incurable a disease as AIDS.

The Reverend Jim Jones of Jonestown, and the prophet Mohammed of Islam, were separated by years, not by quality of thought or quality of followers. That one of these two lunatics is viewed as having founded one of the world's supposedly great religions is ridiculous accident of aggressive action in forcefully engulfing and controlling greater numbers of people more quickly.

The difference between Jim Jones and Mohammed is, according to Muslim history the Prophet Mohammed personally led 28 military campaigns, and during the same period his top followers, The Companions, embarked on another 51 military campaigns. The campaigns were successful and continued to be through several centuries. And that attitude and action, dear hearts, is what converts a psychotic cult into what adherents claim to be one of the world's great religions.

We are in a world war now occurring in 20 nations against a cancerous psychosis. That cancer must be found and cut out where it exists or spreads.

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That's what George Bush should have said on 9/12. Without saying that and acting upon it, nothing is being accomplished and we will lose that war over the long term. But Bush doesn't have the incisive mind or the guts to make that statement and follow through with it. Neither do many people here. Instead, this stupid aggressively psychotic pseudoreligion is labeled the religion of peace. That's why we are going to lose.

There is no "hornet's nest" as you put it. There is only weakness here and elsewhere.

48 posted on 09/19/2003 11:14:57 AM PDT by RLK
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To: RLK
Hey dumbass, we knew he had the WMD's because he used them on his own people. Wake up. And if I am on the jury, I'll find you guilty on 2 counts of stupidity.
49 posted on 09/19/2003 5:17:07 PM PDT by Lance Romance
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To: Lance Romance
Hey dumbass, we knew he had the WMD's because he used them on his own people. Wake up. And if I am on the jury, I'll find you guilty on 2 counts of stupidity.

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I classify nuclear bombs and certain biological weapons as WMD. Anything else approximates little more than can be done in a short time with napalm or machine guns. So tell me when Hussein employed nuclear bombs.

Yours truly, Dumbass

50 posted on 09/19/2003 6:27:54 PM PDT by RLK
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To: RLK
You are a moron. I don't frame debates by what you consider WMD.
51 posted on 09/20/2003 9:09:00 AM PDT by Lance Romance
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To: RLK
If your "article", as you call it, was written for publication I hope you had a good editor. I'm afraid you need a little "mind control" of your own. It was gobbledygook.
52 posted on 09/20/2003 2:50:43 PM PDT by gaspar
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To: gaspar
If your "article", as you call it, was written for publication I hope you had a good editor. I'm afraid you need a little "mind control" of your own. It was gobbledygook.

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First semester algebra is gobbledygook to a moron. Your criticism tells me about you, not about the piece.

53 posted on 09/20/2003 7:17:10 PM PDT by RLK
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To: gaspar
"It was gobbledygook. "

In what respects do find fault with it?

54 posted on 09/20/2003 10:54:58 PM PDT by Mortimer Snavely (Ban tag lines!)
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To: Mortimer Snavely
Second paragraph: "crooked oil barons". Who? Name them.

Third paragraph: entirely wrong. Using Sudan's Hasan al-Turabi as intermediary and Sudanese training camps OBL and Iraqi intelligence were cooperating and worked together in both the civil war in Yemen in 1992-94, and Somalia. In the world of terrorism OBL's interests crossed boundaries. A Sunni, he still worked with the Shia-dominated ISI in Pakistan. He also worked with the secular governments of Iraq and Syria (where Al-Qaida received explosives training).

I could go on and on, but you get my drift. Or at least I hope you do.
55 posted on 09/21/2003 6:38:34 AM PDT by gaspar
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To: gaspar
Post #48?
56 posted on 09/21/2003 7:44:02 AM PDT by Mortimer Snavely (Ban tag lines!)
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To: Mortimer Snavely
Sorry about that, I was going back to the beginning.

If, as the poster recommended, George Bush had gone to the American public and said "We are in a world war now occuring in 20 nations against a cancerous psychosis", his enemies would have called him a psychotic, and a passel of Americans would have asked Bush to name the twenty nations now fighting the USA because it suffers from a cancerous psychosis.

It is hard enough to lead Americans into war, it is harder still to educate a populace, perhaps only ten percent of which can find Iraq on a map and who think Columbus, Ohio is located in the Middle East.

Slowly but surely the American people have climbed aboard the homeland security freight train. And because the people have been prepared for that eventuality, the next Muslim terrorist attack on the US will result in a terrible vengeance being taken on Muslim nations -- and that is precisely what has rational Islamic leaders terrified.

57 posted on 09/21/2003 8:42:07 AM PDT by gaspar
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To: gaspar
Because Islam has declared war against us, we are in a world war, and the President has to get into the bully pulpit and rail against Islam in the same manner we railed against National Socialism and Communism.

It is true that most folks have no idea where the mideast is, but that will change if the White House decides to describe the nature of the enemy accurately.

Celebrating Ramadan with Islamic leaders is the single worst thing the President could have done, because it perpetuates the "Islam is a religion of peace" nonsense.

The only Muslim democracy on the planet, Turkey, keeps Islamics under close scrutiny and throws thm in jail for the slightest suggestion of advocating Islamic rule.

There's a lesson there.

58 posted on 09/21/2003 8:57:56 AM PDT by Mortimer Snavely (Ban tag lines!)
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To: gaspar; Mortimer Snavely
I'm going to state my case one last time and depart the discussion.

I have no use for ludicrous superstition or irrationality. I have no use for people who exhibit such characteristics. They are a burden upon me. I have no use for people or groups who would force governments, so-called religions, or concomitant life styles upon me. I have fought it all my life.

First, there is no serious evidence that Mohammed was a messenger from God. He was nothing but a rather unintelligent psychotic who has the initial capacity to induce his warped condition in some feeble-minded susceptible. He wasn't any more than the Reverend Jim Jones of Jonestown. Instead of drinking cyanide Kool-Aide, his followers drank of that which poisons and distorts the mind. That poison contains a strong pattern of paranoia in which people claim to be persecuted for actions which any sane person would find detestable and threatening.

From thence Mohammed and his followers conquered one fifth of the world's population through the sword. They remain adamant in determination to conquer the remainder of the world through the sword and any other method.

In India, in Kasimer alone, Mohammedans have killed over 35,000 non-Mohammedan people in recent periods as of this time last year. In Indonesia it has been 10,000. In the Philippines the count has been lost. In the UK Mohammedism is demanding various regions be handed over to Mohammedan law or there will be jihad. Scandinavia and Australia are facing the same thing. In Africa a woman facing beheading because she was raped and got pregnant. In his infinite stupidity and war on terrorism our president deposed Taylor in Africa as a terrorist. If you look closely, Taylor was fighting a Mohammedan jihad terrorist movement, --the same bunch that killed 200 people over a Miss World beauty contest in Nigeria. It's taking place in 20 nations.

Contrary to Bush's proclamations, Islam is not the religion of peace. In his proclamations Bush has immobilized resistance to lunatic jihad and alienated potential allies who are fighting for survival in confronting Mohammedism as must be done for survival of the sane world.

You and others say it's some mysterious good strategy not to offend Mohammedism. What will they do if we offend them, start flying airplanes into buildings? Blow up night clubs and kill 250 people at a time in Bali? Kill tens of thousands in India? Form terrorist movements in Africa? Mohammedans are already killing or destroying everything the can get their hands on. They have been doing it for fourteen hundred years.

Mohammedism needs a period of long profound introspection. Killing anyone who refuses to undergo it is the only step that will produce it. Calling it a religion of peace will have the exact opposite effect. Treating it as a religion of peace will have the opposite effect.

Look at them for Christ sake. Obsessive-compulsive idiots with their noses in the dirt facing some rathole city how many times a day. Women is an oppressed state where they can barely, if at all, read, write, or calculate afraid to take bags off their heads. And this wants to rule the world. This is the future to be forced upon the world? It belongs in the back wards of a mental hospital. To hell with them. To hell with Bush. To hell with you and those like you.

59 posted on 09/21/2003 10:46:13 PM PDT by RLK
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To: RLK
I must suppose you are Hackworth. You think like him and you write like him. And before you take credit, let me also say he has a second rate mind and a third rate ability to write logically. And this will be MY final riposte.
60 posted on 09/23/2003 4:10:54 PM PDT by gaspar
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