“scientists are so thoroughly steeped in knee-jerk male bashing”…

If science can be used to ‘prove’ man-made global warming, could it not be used to ‘prove’ that men need to become more like women? It is telling that scientists are so thoroughly steeped in knee-jerk male bashing that they……

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Defensive warfare sucks! The U.S. is now on the strategic defensive. Withdrawal from Iraq is lowering the level of combat our enemy has to endure against our military. Even with the ‘surge’ in Afghanistan, our enemy has an overall lower level of attrition.

I will bet that President Obama has the U.S. out of Afghanistan by the election cycle in 2012. This way he can say that he ended both wars in his first term.

Our enemies will be able to redeploy and allocate resources and dictate where and when the war will be fought. Our civilian forces will not be able to defeat this enemy. This should become more obvious over the next few years. The argument that we are fighting over there (Iraq and Afghanistan) to prevent the fighting from coming here is going to be shown to be more accurate than many had thought.

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@rockybutte:

You don’t need to be a brain surgeon to ID lost and needy youth.

Maybe not a brain surgeon, but it would take a staff many times larger than the radicals, al Qeada, and running dogs combined out there preaching, funding and influencing that needy youth. Until then I guess we will have to continue with winning hearts and minds, as our professionals, like Generals Petraeous and Odierno, etc. suggest and are doing. Also, I doubt the current cuts in defense will be transferred over to social workers.

Why do we let these guys stay in power?

You better hope the Saudis in power stay in power because the members of the Saudi Royals that aren’t in power are the ones you just described.

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MrObson, I think you hit the nail on the head. Until the “good” group feels the pain of us getting killed, they are not going to start pointing out who the bad guys are in there group. It needs to become uncomforatable for them, just as it did for the South. They need to be singled out, they need to be scrutanized, they need to be profiled to hell and back. When they get tired of it, they will leave or they will start defending their neighbors – and I would be happy with either outcome.

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The current situation with muslim terrorists is not unlike the KKK in the 60s.

The KKK was a small radical group. Most Southerners (I am a proud Mississippian) rejected the violence but often knew who was in the KKK and who had committed violent acts. Yet misplaced allegiance to their neighbors instead of to justice caused the good people to refuse to turn in the bad ones. And worse, the violent persons were welcomed family and civic gatherings.

The media and Hollywood began to attack the South as a whole. Even today years after any KKK violence, the stereotype of ignorant and uneducated Southerner is in full force. The idea was that the ‘good people’ have something to lose. With their reputation and livelihoods in jeopardy, they took a harder look at this terrorism and began to turn in or shun bad friends and relatives.

Today, instead of condemning terrorist attacks, the good muslims use each new attack as an opportunity to demand protection from vigilantes and the media takes great pains to create the image of the good muslim with no responsibility for terrorism. This creates little incentive for the non-terrorists to take the very difficult step of turning in or shunning their neighbors and family members.

Imagine if the media of the 60s had made such an effort to say that the vast majority of Southerners were well educated, peace and equality loving people? Would they have considered turning in family??? Would we have ever achieve the civil rights gains?

Calling out all muslims might not be as effective as calling out Southerners. After all Southerners believe in democracy and the general principal of equality (I know, some had difficulty in applying that to all races). But allowing the good muslims a ‘get out of jail free’ card is worse than ineffective.

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Is Obama’s weak approach to the man caused disaster inviting more attacks? Is the Pope Catholic? Could it get any worse? Yes, yes and yes:

After the Obama supported behind closed door healthcare negotiations, he decides to take a break from golf and he:

created by executive order Tuesday a National Declassification Center to oversee efforts to make once-secret government documents public.

His senior director of records and access management at the National Security Council writes:

“While the Government must be able to prevent the public disclosure of information that would compromise the national security, a democratic government accountable to the people must be as transparent as possible and must not withhold information for self-serving reasons or simply to avoid embarrassment,” Leary wrote.

Something just jumps out in this article in the very last paragraph:

In the executive order, Obama instructs the government not to keep secrets forever, eliminates the ability of intelligence officials to veto declassification decisions, and requires agencies to conduct reviews of their classification procedures.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/12/obama-orders-creation-of-decla.html?hpid=news-col-blog

I’m thinking this is aimed mostly at what transpired in the previous administration because this administration obviously isn’t keeping secrets, at least when it involves the WOT oops, man caused disaster. The Obama Admin sends a “shout out” to all those Yemeni al Qeada types…get ready to duck and hide! and exposes Yemeni officials in one fell swoop here:

Officials: U.S., Yemen reviewing targets for possible strike

The U.S. and Yemen are now looking at fresh targets in Yemen for a potential retaliation strike, two senior U.S. officials told CNN Tuesday, in the aftermath of the botched Christmas Day attack on an airliner that al Qaeda in Yemen claims it organized.

The officials asked not to be not be identified because of the sensitive nature of the information. They both stressed the effort is aimed at being ready with options for the White House if President Obama orders a retaliatory strike. The effort is to see whether targets can be specifically linked to the airliner incident and its planning.

U.S. special operations forces and intelligence agencies, and their Yemeni counterparts, are working to identify potential al Qaeda targets in Yemen, one of the officials said. This is part of a new classified agreement with the Yemeni government that the two countries will work together and that the U.S. will remain publicly silent on its role in providing intelligence and weapons to conduct strikes.

Officially the U.S. has not said it conducted previous airstrikes in Yemen, but officials are privately saying the Yemeni military could not have carried out the strikes on its own.

By all accounts, the agreement would allow the U.S. to fly cruise missiles, fighter jets or unmanned armed drones against targets in Yemen with the consent of that government.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/12/29/us.yemen.strike.targets/index.html?eref=rss_us&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_us+%28RSS%3A+U.S.%29

And, please make sure we don’t get any of those al Qeada types that weren’t involved in the air liner incident.

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Radical Islamicists focused on the disaffected foreign Muslim students in Germany in 2000 & 2001 to find those that would carry out their mission: hit the USA where it hurts. They concentrated on those that were most in need of guidance and purpose. You don’t need to be a brain surgeon to ID lost and needy youth. Islam is effective in arranging brotherhood for adherents in search of connection with other lost and lonely souls.

Worldwide, Al Qaeda and their running dogs are recruiting and nurturing youths at the fringes to carry out their nefarious intent. Recruiters may pop up in Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Britain, Pakistan, Indonesia, etc., ad nauseam.

At the root of all of this are the deep-pockets of Saudi Arabia, including members of the royal House of Saud. They paid for the spread of Wahabi/Salafi Islam, bankrolled Osama in Afghanistan, and funded the madrasahs in Pakistan and Afghanistan which spawned the Taliban. 15 Saudis horrified our nation on 9/11. Saudi Arabia was one of 3 countries, along with the United Arab Emirates and Pakistan to recognize the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan.

Why do we let these guys stay in power?

Many middle-class Muslim families throughout the world are most interested in a peaceful life, co-existence with the west and the emergence of a world in which their children prosper.

Those in the west who characterize Muslims as one homogeneous mass of hate and venom are condemning all of us to a future of conflict and terror. Now is the time to enlist the aid of those who can affect the course of Islam.

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what does it take to convert a moderate Muslim into a radical Muslim ?

the opportunity to deploy a weapon at a target in range

Sad, but a lot of the time it sure as hell seems like that’s the case.

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Just a few months ago Holder annouced his case against the CIA and Yo Mama announced that henceforth the FBI would do all the ‘terrorism’ investigations.

Since the CIA could not have been involved then how could the failure be ‘policies in place for years’?

See you at the fourteenth hole!

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