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"It is self-evident you should be afraid of the prospect of Saddam Hussein with nuclear weapons. But if you want to be a freeloader, be a freeloader."

We got plenty of those around the globe. Australia will not be one of them.

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Almost forgot the excellent graphic that accompanied this article:

[SEGUET]

Well said Mate!!

Australia has always been one of our greatest allies.

[1bigdictator]

I've been a subscriber to Pipe's cite for over a year. He is in the N.Y. Post often... but his cite sends you all his articles free, some of which don't appear in the Post.

[LTCJ]

What the West should be doing is helping the moderates defeat the militants, he says.

All two hundred and fifty two of them?

[FreedomPoster]

Index bump.

[Guillermo]

[HangThemHigh]

" militant Islam"

Redundant.

[Billthedrill]

The problem is that while the militants are behaving as militants do to non-militants - that poor woman in the burqa being executed in the soccer stadium is a case in point - even while this is happening the non-militants still are convinced that they are more akin to, and sympathetic with, the guy with the AK-47 than the U.S. soldier who is fighting him. We saw this same phenomenon in Vietnam. It is not a stranglehold that we are going to break with aid payments and propaganda. The sad fact is that the only real way for a people to rid itself of this sort of oppressor is with internal violence.

That may happen - we're seeing that sort of development in Iran right now. But it's a lot more difficult and a lot bloodier when the militants are the government and have all of the guns to themselves.

[Publius6961]

What the West should be doing is helping the moderates defeat the militants, he says.

At times I have serious doubts about Daniel Pipes.
Not about his scholarship, but about his conclusions.

He says militant islam is 10-15%.
He also says that there are over 100 million of them total.

Why should they need our help?

at best his figures are wrong... at worst his assessment of attitude is wrong.