“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.
The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic
feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much
worse. The person who has nothing for which he is
willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his
own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has
no chance of being free unless made and kept so
by the exertions of better men than himself”
- John Stuart Mill

Liberals aren’t worthy of the blanket of freedom that we (the military) provide them, but we do it anyway.

They are coming, are you prepared?

We have been intervening in the middle east since WWII. We have been squarely on the side of Israel since the 67 war. Hign profile Terrorism against the west started soon thereafter, remember the munich olympics ?

We have not been balanced in the middle east, since Eisenhower – when he stopped the Israelis, Brits and France from taking the suez.

We should instead be trying to balk the enemy’s plans. To do this, we would need to be non-interventionist (as Ron Paul points out), and humanitarian and open towards moderate muslims, and dismissive of Bin Laden and his radicals. Initially, we should have attempted to do everything possible to eliminate bin laden early on.

Pure Ron Paul nuttery. Clinton tried all that, and we lost 4000 American lives. How large must the attack be until we defend ourself? A dirty bomb maybe? A real nuke? 10,000 dead?

We’ve tried to dismiss the enemy and they continue to attack us. This country has been the most humanitarian country on the face of the planet, and they still attack us. Not defending oneself, sticking your head in the sand is just plain cowardice and a foolish.

1.) The real problem is, that the natural conclusion of following Pipes’ strategy is an all out War with the muslim world, on the level of WWII, or even greater. You can’t occupy them, you can’t negotiate with them (Pipes says all negotiations are a muslim delay tactic. ) all that’s left is to kill them until they submit – I have seen Israeli’s carrying posters that read, “No Arabs, No Terrorism.” I have to reject Pipes’ strategy for this reason.

My reaction to that is: who fired the first volley? Was it the Iranian hostage crisis? The marine barracks attack in Lebanon, circa 1983; was it a hijacked airliner here, a hijacked airliner there? Was it Somalia? Was it Kosovo? The Cole?

My point is this: WHO has staked the flames of this potential war? The West? The US? I would contend that it’s militant Islam, without a doubt.

2.) We should instead be trying to balk the enemy’s plans. To do this, we would need to be non-interventionist (as Ron Paul points out), and humanitarian and open towards moderate muslims, and dismissive of Bin Laden and his radicals. Initially, we should have attempted to do everything possible to eliminate bin laden early on.

So are you saying that we should ignore radical Islam (when you say be dismissive)? Do we put our heads in the sand, cover our eyes, etc, when our allies are victims of suicide bombers?

3.) Israel has been the scourge of Islam for 60 years. But the talk they are persecuting the poor Palestinians, is pure nonsense. For all the bluster that they are committing genocide, the Palestinian population in Gaza and the West Bank has grown 100-fold. Furthermore, Israel is surrounded by all sides with people who hate their guts and wish to annihilate the Jewish people. The Palestinians have become the scapegoat in the Muslim world, yet in reality, Muslims in Indonesia, Iran, Sudan, etc could care LESS about them. Why is that a majority of Palestinians carry Jordanian passports? Because many were expelled from Jordan as well.

FINALLY, the Jews is ANYONE, have more of a right to that land that the Palestinians. Judaism predates Islam by thousands of years. Frankly, they were there first. Yet, displaying their lack of tolerance, the militants refuse to recognize their existence or their right to that land as well…

The real problem is, that the natural conclusion of following Pipes’ strategy is an all out War with the muslim world, on the level of WWII, or even greater. You can’t occupy them, you can’t negotiate with them (Pipes says all negotiations are a muslim delay tactic. ) all that’s left is to kill them until they submit – I have seen Israeli’s carrying posters that read, “No Arabs, No Terrorism.” I have to reject Pipes’ strategy for this reason.

What Would the greatest general, Sun Tzu Do ?

He says – Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy’s plans;
the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy’s forces;
the next in order is to attack the enemy’s army in the field;
And the worst policy of all is to besiege walled cities.

Well we are essentially doing what Sun Tzu says is the worst strategy, essentially beseiging walled cities, in Iraq.

We should instead be trying to balk the enemy’s plans. To do this, we would need to be non-interventionist (as Ron Paul points out), and humanitarian and open towards moderate muslims, and dismissive of Bin Laden and his radicals. Initially, we should have attempted to do everything possible to eliminate bin laden early on.

Now we should be doing everything possible to eliminate the fear generated from his propaganda, and to factionalize the muslim world. Pipes and others fan this flame of hate, without really much evidence, and help the muslim world to coalesce. How can the moderates in Iran gain any strength, when we keep threatening their country ? I’m sure Muslim moderates are called Cowards, traitors, and defeatists. Any many potential moderates, driven by fear of the US, move to the extremist for security.

This division between west and east, the suspiscion and confrontation is just what Bin Laden had in mind.

We should follow Sun Tzu, and Ron Paul, and Balk the Enemies plans, and prevent the juntion of his forces.

“Finally, in recognition of the fact that this war is not only being fought on the ground in Iraq but also in cyberspace, it also notes the need to contest the enemy’s growing use of that important medium to spread extremism.”

“regional, global, and cyberspace initiatives are critical to success”

Does anyone think the Islamic holy warriors are hacking to get into the Pentagon (oopsie, sorry, that was the People’s Republic of China-not Al Queda)? Hmmmm, what could Al Queda’s media council be doing on the web? I’m stumped. Ya think they go to Kos or LGF? DU or FR? Do they email talking points to Fox or MSNBC? Kucinich’s forums or Ron Paul’s?

I thought it was funny that he compared Bush’s “war on terror” to nothing more than fear-mongering. But, what does the MSM do? If Bush is feeding us lies? What the HELL is the MSM feeding us?

He should just be put out of his miserable existence, like a dog that needs to be put down. He (like most Libtards) is a pathetic human being.

uh, yeah…

ignoring that the effort to get UBL has never ended,
ignoring that this it is IMPOSSIBLE to “surgically” defeat the tens of thousands of Al Queda and other Islamic Holy Warriors that have been killed/captured in Iraq and Afghanistan
ignoring that the real purpose of the essay is an anti-Bush rant, and he’s a second term lame duck (ie,there’s no reason to campaign against him/there’s nothing to be accomplished by it)

And finally ignoring the idea reality that those who have sought to replace GWB (be they a Democratic Presidential candidate or a Democratic Congress) have utterly failed and never once presented anything remotely close to an idea on how to “surgically defeat” Islamic Holy Warriors

…ignoring all those simple and obvious examples of either incompetent writing or greatly competent writing from an incompetent mind, I present an edited version of the conclusive paragraph:

Like a vibration that causes a bridge to collapse, the 9/11 attacks exposed grave weaknesses in our nation’s defenses, our national institutions and ultimately our national character. Since the attacks, the US government has used all of its resources to fight Islamic Holy Warriors. Tens of thousands of these Islamic Holy Warriors have been killed and/captured in Afghanistan and Iraq by working with our closest allies. Thousands more have been killed or captured by our allies with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan at the top of the list. Nearly a hundred Al Queda plots to repeat or mimic the 911 attacks have been thwarted by the close cooperation of American and allied intelligence services as well as law enforcement agencies here in the US. The Middle East-which was seeing bus bombings and terrorist attacks from Morocco to India almost daily is still an uneasy place, but it is no longer ready to explode as it was on Sept 11 when Palestinians danced in the streets in praise and support of the attack on 50-100,000 American civilians. And the threat of terrorism, which the war was intended to remove, is much less than it was since tens of thousands of Islamic Holy Warriors have been brought to justice one way…or the other.