freecounterpoint: Calling all jihadis

Monday, October 22, 2007

Calling all jihadis

7 comments:

Tecumseh said...: Yada, yada. Wasn't this guy supposed to eat dandelions by the roots? Give'im some celery.; 10/23/2007 4:27 AM
Tecumseh said...: This guy sounds like JJ:

Whereas we used to emphasize overwhelming firepower (even when I was there in 2006), we now emphasize firepower as a last resort.

Hmmm.... I still say, bring in the fly boys, and get it over. Any change in the strategic view around this board?; 10/23/2007 7:56 AM
My Frontier Thesis said...: Nice George C. Scott pic, AI. I think he read about 5 Patton biographies before playing that roll. Great flick, too.

"Rommel you magnificent bastard!... I READ YOUR BOOK!!!"; 10/23/2007 8:41 AM
Tecumseh said...: Petraeus is good. But don't forget, the US Army is in the derby-demolition business, not the mamby-pamby Peace Corps Alan Alda feel good concept. So I say, let's kick some ass. Whose, though?; 10/23/2007 2:09 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...: Kick some ass, yes, but ass can also be kicked in the ideological sense, too: showing that a democracy, or a Republican Democracy, is a better form of government than Theo-cratic rule. This is not a new idea, and has been argued since the Enlightenment (rather aptly by Jefferson, and Thomas Paine's, "Age of Reason").

Orwell even remarks on how absolutely crazy a democracy can be in his Why I Write. Are we truly represented in Washington, D.C., to the same tone that Orwell asked whether the House of Commons and Lords truly gave a shit about the English, Scots, and Irish? Orwell decided it was pretty patchy, but in the end it was much better than being ruled by Kings, Tyrants, and Religion in general.

A couple posts above is an article by Hitchens, the focus being that America does have a brilliant citizen-soldier class, capable of bringing Hellfire and M-60 lead on Islamic Jihad target. But also capable of intellectually arguing why a government by and for the people is leaps and bounds beyond Rule by Kings, Sultans, and Nobles.

Here's to our multi-pronged front. There was a Pepetian saying that if one attacks Islamic Jihad, then one is merely attacking a multi-headed hydra. Well, just so these fucks know, if one attacks Western Sensibilities (Republican Democracy), then one is attacking a multi-headed hydra as well.; 10/23/2007 2:47 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...: Oops. My fault: The Hitchens piece is a few posts below.; 10/23/2007 2:49 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: This thread went without my contribution, and is the better for it. Good posts.; 10/26/2007 11:56 PM

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