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11.16.05
Worth Reading
Hat tip to Jack.
When did the threat to us start?
He has a point.
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05.23.05
Urban Blast In China
The word on the street is that 16 Chinese buildings were demolished because they were built without proper government approval.
Proper government approval?
How in the hell did that happen?
Bwahahahah!
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05.14.05
Carefully Nurtured Illusions
This is 100% Bullshit.
...The film, a non-competition entry, argues that the fear of terrorism has come to pervade politics in the United States and Britain even though much of that angst is based on carefully nurtured illusions.
It says Bush and U.S. neo-conservatives, as well as British Prime Minister Tony Blair, are exaggerating the terror threat in a manner similar to the way earlier generations of leaders inflated the danger of communism and the Soviet Union...
..."During the Cold War conservatives exaggerated the threat of the Soviet Union," the narrator says. "In reality it was collapsing from within. Now they're doing the same with Islamic extremists because it fits the American vision of an epic battle."...
The American vision of an epic battle? Doing the same with Islamic extremists?
Are these people crazy?
Maybe we should discuss the power of a real nightmare.
This British documentary, arguing U.S. neo-conservatives have exaggerated the terror threat, won a British film and television industry award this year.
Unbelievable!
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04.28.05
Yard Boy
My neighbor has all the yard toys. Mowers, trimmers, grinders, graters, edgers, diggers, blowers, suckers, choppers, tillers, thisers, and thaters, and some more.
I laugh my ass off every time his wife makes him “make her yard pretty”. This guy blows the house, once a week. No kidding.
If anyone would like to sit with me in my backyard, and laugh your ass off, you’re welcome to do so. The beer is on me.
I pay a nice young man to do this shit for me.
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02.20.05
Two-Year Island-Hopping Campaign

A day late.
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01.05.05
You Must Do, What You Have To Do
There are “thinker uppers”, and there are “take the credit ‘ers”.
I’m going to have to play a game of life chess with the latter. Know what I mean?
I’ve won every slow dance I’ve ever been in, and I don’t think this one will be any different.
I am loyal, until you fuck with me.
Anyway, suffice it to say; the person on the back end of the first sentence is going down.
Down, Down, Down: See you later, Bye.
I wish I didn’t have to do this, but they brought it on themselves.
Damn!!!!!
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12.23.04
Two Sides Of The Same Coin
You should head on over to Jack's place, and read this.
What do you think about the judgment of history?
Just linking...
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12.09.04
A Flag-Waving American Girl
You need to go visit The Patriette, a flag-waving American girl who loves her country and supports freedom, individual liberty, the military, and The Spirit of America Project.
You can also DONATE HERE.
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12.04.04
The Fighting Fusileers For Freedom
She Who Will Be Obeyed needs your help.
Do what she says, and help us out with the Spirit of America Project.
You can donate via this link.
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12.03.04
The Ukrainian Situation
For anyone following the situation in the Ukraine, head over to LoboWalk and read Daniel's many posts on the matter.
He has an inside angle.
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Ring The Ching Ching Bell
Head on over to Ben's World and ring the ching ching bell.
C'mon friends, every little bit helps.

The Spirit of America Project is a worthy cause, and you can also DONATE HERE.
Thanks!!!
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12.02.04
Help Support The Troops
Get onboard with The Sprit of America. Head on over to Dean's World and read this post.
Go here to donate and help some people help themselves.
Thanks !!!
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12.01.04
The Spirit of America
It’s Time To Slow Dance
The Spirit of America Bloggers’ Challenge begins today, and you don’t have to have a blog to participate.

Friends, this is a worthy cause, and we need all the donations we can get. This is a great way to help some people help themselves.
Every little bit helps, so, please go here to DONATE.
Need More Information: Overview of The Spirit of America Project.
Thanks !!!
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11.27.04
Mullahs, Bombs, and Lies
For the mullahs, the bomb is so important they are obligated to lie to us and that is what they are doing. They are looking us in the eye and lying their teeth off and they're not going to breathe easy until they've lied long enough and hard enough that they've bought enough time to finish their bomb.
We would do well to remember understand this.
Seriously!
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11.19.04
Can You Really Charm A Snake ?
Our worst nightmare is a Nuclear Iran.
The media is downplaying reports that Iran is seeking a delivery system for its nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons it doesn’t have, yet? The mainstream media doubts the intelligence behind the statement made by Colin Powell, that Iran "has been actively working on delivery systems". I’m sick and tired of the media’s opinion. They should just report the facts; and the facts are that Iran is lying. They always have, and they always will. You cannot deal with IslamoFascist terrorist pigs. The foundation of their culture is built on lies, deceit, and oppression.
Britain, France, Germany and the European Union have struck a deal with Iran that is designed to stop the nuclear enrichment program. This is bullshit. Fact of the matter is…appeasement will not work with these savages. To them, appeasement equals more time to complete their projects. These scumbags have no honor.
The goal of radical Islam is to kill all the Jews, and kill everyone else who won’t convert. They want to rule the planet. Sorry folks, but it’s true. Where is the support from moderate Islam? Why won’t the “majority” of the “followers” of the religion of peace help? They must realize they’d be better off if they helped us remove the fanatics who oppress them. Or, do they secretly want us to fail?
You don’t get a second chance with a nuclear bomb. If there is any doubt at all, and I mean, any doubt at all, we should identify the targets, and conduct a preemptive strike. There is no other option.
Another question. Do you think Israel can handle the destruction of Iran’s nuclear facilities alone, and can they win a full-blown war in the Middle East without the help of the United States? It might come down to that.
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11.16.04
It's Seven Minutes To Midnight
That is, on the Doomsday Clock. Midnight is the END.
Here's the Current Time.
The Board of Directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has been moving the hands forward or backward, taking into account both negative and positive developments in the world, since 1947.
This might not be an accurate representation of a threat level, but I wonder where the hands go if Iran is allowed to go nuclear. At any rate, I'll bet the ranch, Iran's reactor never goes "warm".
Israel will not allow it. The U.S., under Bush, will not allow it. We should all thank our lucky stars Kerry is done.
Bottom Line: There will be some ordinance detonated in Iran, and then the shit is really going to hit the fan.
People are worried about North Korea...I am to, but I'm telling you, Iran is in the hot seat...for good reason.
During the Cold War, when the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction was born, the Soviet Union understood that it was a no win situation, a deterrent. This understanding is what kept everyone in check. I mean, they weren’t crazy...but the Iranian IslamoFascists are. Actually, it's not just the Iranians; it's all the radical Islamic extremists living in many countries. Their hate knows no borders.
All I’m saying is that Iran cannot be allowed to develop a nuclear bomb.
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10.10.04
The Right Decision Down Under
Congratulations to John Howard, who was Re-Elected, and the Australian people who supported his coalition.
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10.07.04
Incoming - Afghanistan
I'm glad to know our boys in the Army cuss like Sailors.
Check it out.
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09.07.04
It's Either Us Or Them
Jim, from the Sloop New Dawn, has a great post concerning the true voice of Islam.
Read it!
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The Threat Is Too Real To Ignore
The IslamoFascists nutcases who rule Iran are going to be a real problem in the not so distant future. Diplomacy has not worked. The threat of UN sanctions has not worked. Nothing has worked. You cannot negotiate with rabid dogs. These dogs take their orders directly from Allah, and has been proven time and time again, the followers of the religion of peace want nothing more than to kill everyone who is not Muslim, beginning with the Jews.
After Russia, Iran has the largest natural gas reserves on the planet. They have huge oil reserves. Do they need nuclear power to generate energy? The answer is no. Why do they want a nuclear program? The answer is to intimidate their Muslim neighbors and kill the Jews. These Mullahs are crazy, and the sooner the West realizes this, and commits to the appropriate action, the better.
We cannot, and must not, allow Iran to go nuclear. Having nuclear weapons as a deterrent, and using them, are separate issues. Today, Iran has the missile range capability to strike Israel. Tomorrow, no doubt, they will be able to hit the continental United States.
These Islamic crazies, unlike the Russians, will use a nuclear weapon at the first opportunity. Israel will be no more. They don’t care that there will be as many Muslim casualties as Jewish, they don’t care that all the Muslim states that border Israel will be affected. Islam is not a religion of peace.
Israel has vowed not to let this happen, but we’re kidding ourselves if we believe the United States will not make the final decision.
The United States will have to do it, not Israel. Be prepared.
My thoughts, assuming Bush is reelected, are that a military strike on the nuclear facilities in Iran will happen. It must happen.
If Kerry wins, the free world is in deep deep shit.
Also, don’t forget about North Korea, Kim Jong Il is a sick puppy.
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08.18.04
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07.09.04
The Liberal Press & Iraq
I am sick and tired of the liberal news media distorting the facts about the situation in Iraq. Everything I read and hear is negative. There were no WMD. Bullshit. Bush lied to us. Bullshit. We're in it for the oil. Bullshit. The Iraqi people don't want us there. Bullshit. The situation is worse now. Bullshit. Our soldiers are dying for nothing. Bullshit. Another Vietnam. Bullshit.
After the election, when the spin slows spinning, the presumption that Frog and John Boy will save the day.
BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT.
It is amazing to me how gullible many Americans are.
This might be the most important Presidential election ever, and if the Democrats win; it will be the fault of the liberal press, and a huge setback. They don't seem to understand that without international security, there can be no successful domestic policies.
This war is unlike any other. We're not fighting a country, but a religion that knows no borders. The rules have changed, and we must adapt, and adapt fast.
We didn't start it, but we must win it at all costs. And I mean, AT ALL COSTS. Whatever it takes. I believe that the future of civilization as we know it, depends on us being successful. This will take a long time, and there will be many Presidential elections before this is over.
I don't know about y'all, but I don't want to live in the 7th century.
You might say I'm crazy, but I'm not. It is the radical extremists who follow the Wahabi sect of Islam. These people are crazy, and will kill everyone not like them, including the liberal press.
At some point, we’re going to have to deal with this.
Anyway, my point is: Rational people must utilize sources other than the liberal press for accurate and honest "reporting".
Iraq At A Glance is a good place to start.
This is just my humble opinion.
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07.01.04
Saddam Question
Should Saddam die?
If so, how?
If not, why?
I'd like to hear your comments.
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06.28.04
A Message To The People Of Iraq
Iraq is now a Sovereign Nation, a nation reborn with American blood. Americans paid the ultimate price for you. We died for your freedom, and we want you to succeed. You must understand this.
Don’t fuck it up.
This is as about as short and sweet as I can say it.
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05.13.04
Our True Enemy
Wahabism must be destroyed.
Click here, and follow all the links.
Jack @ Random Fate is, in my opinion, correct.
Thanks...
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We Do Have A Choice
I watched the entire Berg video, and I feel everyone should do the same. Why? Because this is the harsh reality we live in today. People need to understand what we’re up against. What civilization, as we know it, is facing. Sometimes, rage is good. Right now is one of those times.
It is Crunch Time, but we do have a choice.
The IslamoFascists want to kill us. They will kill us all, if we give them the opportunity. We can either fight them on their own turf, or we can fight them in American streets. If we don't stop them overseas, life as we know it will cease to exist. But, one thing is for certain; we must fight this war, one place or another.
It’s our choice to make.
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04.22.04
How Can We Win ?
A decision must be made.
The only way to win a war is to destroy the enemy.
What do you do when the enemy hides amongst women and children?
How do you fight an enemy when the enemy knows you won’t do what is necessary to win?
I’m not advocating the killing of innocents, but I’d like to hear your thoughts.
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04.06.04
Arrogant Bastard
Do you believe this?
Hans Blix needs the shit kicked out of him.
Socialists like him are extremely dangerous to the civilized world (West).
He is an arrogant bastard.
We would do well to remember and understand this…
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04.01.04
How 9-11 Happened
The latest from Ann Coulter is required reading.
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03.10.04
What About Iran ?
There are many opinions on how to deal with Iran.
You should read this one by political scientist Elio Bonazzi.
Link via Kim du Toit.
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03.05.04
Change is Coming
The Democrats just don’t get it. They are going around saying that Bush “betrayed America”, and “misled” and “lied” to Americans. Do they really believe that? I don’t think so. The world has changed, and they know it. They have no platform, so they’re grasping at straws. All this business about the economy will not matter if we do not win this war that we didn’t start. They know that, and if they don’t they’re double damn stupid. They are followers, not leaders. They are cowards, not paladins. They, like water, choose the path of least resistance.
This Presidential election could quite possibly be the most important election ever.
I have never donated any of my time to a political candidate, but this year will be different. If a Democrat is elected, we’re all in big trouble. We must stay the course.
No one is perfect, including President Bush, but at least he understands the scope of the threat that the world faces. It is not just America, and it is not just Christians and Jews; the Islamic Fundamentalists will not stop until they have forced their religion on all of mankind. We’re just on the top of the list. If they defeat us, you can bet Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, etc., will be next.
If the Democrats want positive change, jump ship and vote for Bush. Otherwise, they’ll see change…change for the worse.
No doubt, more change is coming.
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02.25.04
Know thy Enemy: Canada
Excerpt:
If a Canadian ever tries to express an opinion about America, hit him on the head with a rolled up newspaper while shouting, "No!" You have to catch them in the act or they'll never learn.
Follow this link.
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02.23.04
Not the History You Were Taught In School.
The folks over at democrats give conservatives indigestion have posted the first in a continuing series of lessons you did NOT learn in Revisionist American History 101.
Very interesting - go here to read it.
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02.01.04
Foreign Policy
Don't all of the opponents of our current foreign policy understand that without international security, you cannot effectively implement domestic policies?
Just saying…
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01.26.04
Standard of ?
Howard "the Coward" Dean says the Iraqi Standard of Living is "a lot worse" now. Howard - the key here is "Living".
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01.17.04
The Real Problem
Thanks to Jim for This Must Read.
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01.04.04
Statistics
I was watching FOX news and heard something interesting.
This is a reminder for all the Democrats in the audience who continue to lie to themselves, and everyone else who will listen. For all of you who make it up as you go. For all of you who believe "misspoke" is not a "lie". For all of you hypocrites:
In Iraq, after major operations were ended, there have been 328 casualties. God bless them!
In Chicago, there have been 599 murders.
In New York City, there have been 596 murders.
This is just two cities.
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01.03.04
Red Sea Plane Crash
Egyptian and French officials are saying the plane that crashed into the Red Sea today was "not related to any terrorist act."
Remember, the French took the same stand when an explosion gutted the French-flagged supertanker Limburg in the Gulf of Aden. Even after al Qaida claimed responsibility, they did nothing.
I hope this was an accident, but I say it's too early to know for sure. Go read this.
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12.21.03
Spit, Slug and Beat
Time Magazine is reporting that when Saddam was dragged from his rat hole, he spit on a U.S. Soldier, who promptly slugged him.
I hope it's true.
And speaking of slugging, Democratic Dopeful Wesley Clark said (live on C-SPAN), in no uncertain terms, how he would respond if they or anyone else criticized his patriotism or military record.
"I'll beat the shit out of them," Clark told a questioner as he walked through the crowd after a town hall meeting Saturday. "I hope that's not on television," he added.
Well, it was.
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Person of the Year
Time Magazine finally got it right.
Person of the Year - The American Soldier
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12.19.03
Future of the U.N.
The future of the United Nations is far from secure as it becomes more bloated, corrupt and centered on its own desire to dictate to the world.
Read this.
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12.18.03
Ten Lessons
Wall Street Journal, Wednesday, December 17, 2003
Ten Lessons
By DENNIS PRAGER
Ten lessons from Saddam Hussein’s capture:
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1. America is the greatest force for good on the planet. America, with the support of Britain and some other countries, and against the rest of “world opinion,” liberated Iraq from evil. If it were up to the U.N. or the EU, or the editorial boards of most major American newspapers, Saddam would still be happily making palaces for himself and torture dungeons for his people.
2. The positive effect on humanity of good vanquishing evil cannot be overstated. When evil people get away with what they have done, it has a dispiriting effect. Even those of us who believe that a just God dispenses justice after this life ache to see justice done here and now. In this regard, it is not only good that Saddam was captured; it is good that he lived in holes, and aware that his sadistic sons had been killed. It is nice to know that he has been suffering.
3. No Muslim or Arab country lifted a finger to help the Iraqi people. This is because the Muslim and Arab worlds do not divide the world between good and evil, but between Muslim and non-Muslim and Arab and non-Arab. Since Saddam was a fellow Muslim and Arab, the fact that he tortured and murdered so many was as irrelevant to the Muslim and Arab worlds as the Islamic regime’s genocide in Sudan and the subjugation of women in Taliban Afghanistan.
4. Not everyone is happy about Saddam’s capture. Palestinians, for example, are weeping. Saddam was their hero. Iraqis were forced to march with his posters, but Palestinians did so voluntarily. Many on the Left are also not particularly happy. Saddam’s capture is a victory for American force and for George W. Bush, and the Left hates both more than it hates Saddam.
5. The Left seeks power, but is incapable of leading because leadership and wanting to be loved are mutually exclusive. Leftists, including liberal politicians, want to be loved and want America to be loved. That was President Clinton’s great desire, and that is why, with all his abundant talents, he could never lead. Much of the Left’s criticism of Mr. Bush revolves around this issue: “Look at how popular we were right after 9/11 and how unpopular we are now.”
6. Most of the Left does not hate evil; hatred of evil is primarily found on the Right. With exceptions such as Tony Blair and Joseph Lieberman, virtually the entire Left finds evil far less disturbing than global warming, smoking, economic inequality, and drug prices. And with the exceptions of “paleoconservatives” such as Pat Buchanan, most of the Right regards the use of American power to vanquish evil as the greatest good the U.S. can engage in.
7. In the Arab world, power is venerated. For years leading up to 9/11, Islamists were respected for their increasing power and America was losing respect as it suffered blows at the hands of Islamic terror. Now America is seen as the powerful one, and is earning the respect once accorded Saddam and Osama. The importance of this cannot be overstated.
8. There are many who respect goodness above all else. But humanity as a whole has far more respect for power, and takes powerful societies more seriously than good ones. That is why China is respected despite its being a dictatorship and its brutal crushing of Tibet. China is powerful. The stronger America is, the more people will take it and its values seriously. As an unprecedented combination of power and goodness, America could reshape the world.
9. The Marxist belief that forces, not individuals, shape history is wrong. George W. Bush is living proof.
10. The reason the president is shaping history is that he has as strong a set of beliefs – in America’s moral mission and in Judeo-Christian religious values – as those he is fighting. Those who hold bad beliefs can only be defeated by those have equally strong good beliefs.
Mr. Prager, a radio talk show host, is author of “Why the Jews?” (Touchstone, 2003).
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12.17.03
Time to Go
December 17, 2003
This Travel Warning is being issued to alert Americans to the fact that, due to security concerns, the Department of State has authorized the departure of family members and non-emergency employees of the U.S. Embassy and Consulates on a voluntary basis. Private American citizens should evaluate their own security situations and should consider departing the country. This Travel Warning supersedes that of December 8, 2003.
Don't forget to take your female dolls and stuffed animals with you.
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12.14.03
Dead or Alive?
I'm not sure, but it will be interesting to see if we can get any information on the involvement of other countries in Iraq after the embargo. Like the French, etc.
I bet the French are huddled up right now, like the Democrats, plotting their next move. They'll be moving into "cover their ass" mode.
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12.13.03
HOW NOT TO WIN A WAR
Required reading.
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The mentality of being more concerned with the enemy's well being than that of our own military personnel or the success of our military mission is already having its effect.
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12.11.03
We blew it up, we'll fix it
The European Union is asking the World Trade Organization to determine if the U.S. policy of excluding the countries that did not back us (excuse me, the coalition) in the war in Iraq from bidding for reconstruction contracts, is legal, and if it violates any WTO rules. The WTO also wants to review these contracts to determine whether national security exemptions should apply.
These folks still don't get it. Let me explain it once again.
"There's a new sheriff in town, and he will not cower to your ridiculous whims and your perceived ethical, social and political superiority like his predecessor."
The EU and WTO need to get on board or shut up.
A treacherous side note: Remember this?
The French are directly, 100%, responsible for killing Americans.
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12.10.03
It could be a very hot spring
The situation in the Far East is heating up. Are the state of affairs between China and Taiwan about to come to a head?
Go here for one thought.
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12.09.03
The UN is Evil
Clipped this from "Who Tends the Fires".
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12.08.03
Email from Iraq
Head on over to the VodkaPundit and have a look see at this.
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Koreans Breaking for Cover
Chalk one up for the Islamofascists.
South Korean engineers are quitting Iraq because two of their own were killed in an ambush last week. Ungrateful cowards. Of course, they’ll still expect the U.S. to protect them from their good friends up North.
Read more here.
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11.23.03
Women and Combat
Very interesting - I say "go for it".
From the Debka file.
"The Israeli Defence Force is setting up first all-woman combat battalion."
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11.16.03
Arabia is History!
As I've said here.
It takes no historian, economist, or fortune-teller to predict the shocks and tremors that will accompany the rapidly approaching downfall of the Saudi royal house.
Via Jerusalem Post
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What will begin with panic in the energy markets will likely proceed to other commodity markets, from precious metals to food staples, and from there the road will be short to mayhem across the major stock, currency, bond, and derivatives markets.
Other side effects - like the inability to sell jets, tanks, and vessels to a newly anti-American Riyadh - may initially win less attention, until it emerges that those alone will cost thousands of American jobs.
Fortunately, some people - including George W. Bush - do get the imminence and gravity of this nightmare scenario. Unfortunately, even they, and even now, still think that the root of the Saudi malaise is in that vast country's politics. In fact, that is merely the symptom: The root of the problem - there as elsewhere in the totalitarian Middle East - lies in its sociology.
In Saudi Arabia, the regime has skillfully kept the people at arm's length, throwing in their direction crumbs from the massive wealth with which Allah blessed the country that is the center of His worship, while clutching the lion's share to their own princely bosoms.
Yes, during those increasingly distant years when the local per-capita income was higher than $20,000 (it is now well under half that level, and still declining) the government generously offered free health-care and education. In reality, however, life expectancy (63) and the per-capita number of doctors remained low even by Middle Eastern standards, while infant mortality remained high.
The reason is simple: While Riyadh abolished tuition, it never instituted what the Jews decreed already 2,000 years ago: compulsory education. And when people are not raised to value self-development nor led to actively seek enlightenment, they indeed avoid them. The result is a catastrophic rate of illiteracy (40 percent according to the Encyclopedia Britannica) and a widespread lack of basic tools with which to accomplish social mobility and personal fulfillment.
The royal house will hopefully forgive us for suspecting that this policy was neither coincidence nor miscalculation; rather, it was, and remains, part of a cynical ploy aimed at shackling those with humble origins, much the way serfdom served that purpose for medieval Europe's feudal nobility.
THE DESIRE to freeze the anti-meritocratic social order so that a family of several thousand princes can perpetuate its grip on power was applied even more sinisterly in the labor markets.
There, the royal house engineered a system whereby 70% of the economy's jobs are handed to foreign workers, mainly ones from beyond the nearby Indian Ocean, who in turn are evicted within three years of their arrival.
As would befit the outlook of a regime for whom social paralysis has become an article of faith, the financial and industrial systems have also been structured in ways that were expedient for the select few, and catastrophic for the rest. That is why the local stock market was sealed for foreigners, while the industrial sector was chained to the oil industry.
Sadly, no single mineral or crop can, in the long run, sustain an entire nation. Cuba has learned that about its sugar, Zambia has learned that about its copper, and the US Confederacy learned that about its cotton. Mexico, by contrast, was wise enough to industrialize and diversify its oil-rich economy, ultimately offering more future with less crude to a population more than four times the size of Saudi Arabia's.
The Saudis, of course, knew better, and thought the riches they found under their feet without even shedding a drop of sweat to mine them, would generate them fortunes endlessly, even as they squandered every third petrodollar on arms and much of the remainder on princely hedonism, while repressing their subjects and funding troublemakers the world over.
One is at a loss to seek throughout history a comparably brazen, stupid, and criminal combination of theft, waste, oppression, obscurantism, hypocrisy and belligerency. Morally, economically, and socially - it is predestined to collapse.
Sadly, the kingdom's recent toying with reform - like the much-heralded live broadcasts from the king's rubber-stamp "consultative council" of royally appointed political eunuchs, and the pathetic plan to hand over the labor market to the local population - are too little and way too late.
To be effective, Saudi Arabia's heavily unemployed workforce (an estimated 40%) would have had to be educated decades ago, and allowed economic access to the country's riches.
Similarly, the kingdom should have fashioned itself as a modern immigrant state, by welcoming and quickly naturalizing newcomers from nearby, overpopulated and fellow Sunni Muslim Egypt.
Yet to do that the Saudis would have had to cease being the selfish anti-developers that they so tragically were, and remain.
For their part, however, Westerners seeking Mideastern emancipation must understand that before they can participate in democratic elections, the region's masses must first be educated and employed, albeit nominally. The people who toppled communism were such. That is exactly why the people who currently oppress the Middle East are so loath to spread enlightenment and prosperity: from their viewpoint, those are bad for business.
Like the fall of the Berlin Wall, the fall of the Saudi kingdom will reflect a widespread sense of disgust with a morally bankrupt regime. Yet, unlike the fall of the Wall, which offered the West moral vindication and strategic breakthrough, the fall of the house of Saud will generate geopolitical chaos and moral perplexity.
Hopefully, the next time it recruits allies, Washington will evince interest not only in what their leaders do for America, but also in what they do for their subjects.
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11.12.03
Nuclear Iran?
The Bush administration, citing the latest U.N. report on Iran's nuclear program, said yesterday it would prod other nations to take "appropriate action" against Iran's ability to make nuclear weapons.
Wait just one damn minute. Does anyone believe that Israel will allow Iran to go nuclear?
Not a chance! Israel will take "appropriate action" in the form of a 1,600 mile roundtrip, 100 ft. over the sand, death from above mission.
They've done it before, and they will do it again.
Any bets?
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