Posted on 10/11/2006 2:35:42 PM PDT by freedom44
Mostly, considering the severity of the threat of radical Islam, we don't use our troops and we do let them fight each other.
That's been the battle plan in the WOT.
Frank
I fully understand that. I'm still waiting for your answer; it is an interesting question.
Americans have bought into this "consumerist culture" anyways. It wouldn't hurt to NOT buy that extra "nicety" and put it towards gas if that's what it takes.
Interesting. You talk about how "Americans" should give up an undefined standard of living, but you are reticent about (a) just how much you would demand your neighbor give up, and (b) just how much you yourself would be willing to give up. It's rather similar to how Democrats say "soak the rich" without defining who "the rich" are and how they would be "soaked."
PW is a troll.. Pay it no mind.
Because we can't remotely produce that much oil, and even if we had all that oil under our own soil (we don't) it would still take us many years to ramp up our production to make use of it.
The bottom line is that our economy needs mideast oil to keep flowing as fast as can be arranged.
Oh? Reason has something to do with it? Please inlighten us with the reasonableness of all the islamist attacks on western civilization?
No. You?
Come on...you're tough guys, right? No problem!
I'm sure the stupid infidels don't even remember 1979!
Is that a serious question?
The second time it is stated, it's a serious proposition.
Run along, the adults are talking.
Be safe, bless you and thank you for your service!
I guess that's a step up from you, you never had credibility! HAHAHAHAHAHA.
MAY GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED.
I can think of a number of MOOSELIMB leaders--especially religious leaders . . . who'd be put to much better use . . . fertilizing some orange groves somewhere.
And . . . scattering a lot of buildings with pointy towers would improve the landscape considerably.
Explain to me the logic in putting an SSBN off the coast of North Korea when the Trident missiles can hit North Korea from 5,000+ miles away.
Encouraging recent news is that the new Japanese Prime Minister is going to attempt to rid Japan of the anachronistic absence of a military so that Japan can take its place along side the US as our ally. They had already sent troops to the Middle East. Maybe someday, Germany and Russia will grow up and become part of the solution rather than part of the problem. If North Korea does not stand down (and preferably stretch Kim Jong Il's worthless neck in the public square in Pyongyang), we should start our response by giving Japan nukes to end Chinese hegemony in East Asia.
Your post is self-contradictory. You say that you support "wiping out all these Middle East clowns" but then suggest that it is not worth doing.
If we are not trading with them, we will have to ride bicycles instead of cars and join with useless Carter in wearing layers of cardigans while heating our homes with fireplaces. Ummmm, I'm going with "wiping out all these Middle East clowns." When first someone said: "I am not my brother's keeper", it did not work then either.
Your post seems to say that you were for the war before you were against it. That also has a familiar ring of futility. Whoever said that war is supposed to be a cakewalk or be abandoned????
I am all in favor of developing alternative energy sources and replacing Middle East oil with same, but not to the extent of freezing in the dark without transportation for ten years until we have developed the alternative energy sources. When we do, we should starve the Islamofascist bastards into oblivion. Let them sell sand.
If Fallujah had been made a bad memory, there would be little combat but once again, we are fighting a limited war and ignoring the real lesson of history: No half vast efforts, no restraints on our military efforts. If we fight, we win must be the guideline. The willingness of some unemployable camel jockey to blow himself up for jihad or to employ IEDs to blow up our troops for jihad should be an inspiration to world class and unforgettable retaliation until they are on their knees where they belong.
Let THEM worry about what WE might do for a change and drop the superficial facade of faux "civilization" which was our enemy in Korea and in Vietnam and now in Afghanistan and Iraq.
I do agree that we should not interfere with Sunnis and Shiites killing each other off. The Kurds have proven to be ur friends, however, and we should protect them in their own independent state.
"Limited strikes"????? Just as limited as their destruction of WTC and attempts to destroy Pentagon, White House and/or Congress or less so. Let them ever be an example of what happens when in the immortal words of Admiral Yamamoto (?), they have awoken a sleeping giant. Decorate the wall of the cabinet room with the pelts of Osama bin Laden, and of the leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah and of the Iraqi "resistance" leaders. Toss the rest of their remains in a vat of pig blood and televise the festivities on Al Jazeera.
For those who are (like me) Catholic: An Iraqi priest was martyred today by beheading at the hands of jihadist lunatics who demanded that he denounce the pope for quoting a 14th Century Byzantine Emperor on the nature of Islam as an example in a scholarly discussion of history. Find them too and send their pelts to any museum that celebrates the Crusades.
The Middle East is now producing more history than can be consumed locally as George Will once wrote of the Balkans.
We gotta do what we gotta do. Flat. Black. Glow in the dark. If they really insist.
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