[billbears]

"We’re making good progress, we really are, in parts of the world. Afghanistan has now got a constitution which talks about freedom of religion and talks about women’s rights

And that's all it does George. Talk. Why? Because conservatives, not Republicans, have been stating for some time that a Western form of democracy will not fly in these nations. It has nothing to do with the quality of the people, their race, or anything of the sort. It has to do with the fact that the religion they choose to follow is incompatible with western ideals or forms of government. You can't 'spread democracy' in regions that don't want democracy, no matter how many rigged polls show the 'majority' of the people want it. They see the elections and all the other nonsense only as a way to get forces out of their nation. Then they will use those purple fingers to elect a theocracy. And within a generation, the Iraq/Iran relations will be much closer to final unification.

Expect issues like this to arise within Iraq by the end of the decade, if not sooner. Unfortunately my original timetable idea of theocracy in Iraq may have to be pushed up by 10-15 years. We could have a Persian superstate within our lifetimes.

[Proctor]

What Republicans have morphed into are not conservatives.

[FBD]

I'm listening to the author of the Prophet of Doom right now:
http://www.israelnationalradio.com/Asx/tamary-tu.asx

SNIP:

"There is no such thing as a war against terrorism, you cannot declare war on a tactic....If we had killed all the Bitzkriegers & Kamikaze's, we would have done nothing to rid the world of Nazism, or the Japanese worship of their Emperor....by declaring war on terrorism, which is a tactic; we are missing entirely the motivation for all the terrorism worldwide...
The one unifying thing that all of the terrorists worldwide have in common, is Islam...not a corruption of Islam, not a radical Islam, the Islam of Muhammad..."