WHO CARES??????
Good Lord, I am tired of Muslim arse-kissing.
Now, let me explain something to you lovely peace-loving folks out there.......something about human nature, something about human history, something about the world.......and why your view of it is particularly dangerous.
The entire course of human cultural development has been decided on the battlefield.
The clash between the intellectualism, and relatively open society of Athens and the rigid culture of Sparta was decided in open warfare.....the victory of Athens leaving western culture with a heritage of knowledge and relative freedom.....imagine a victory of the Spartans???? How would our culture's very foundations have been changed?
The clash between barbarians and the culture of law laid out in the Roman Empire.
The clash between Christianity and the pagans.......
The clash between the Christian world and the world of Islam.....which, btw, we only won because Islam was divided amongst themselves........and that (at the time) enlightened culture atrophied into the narrow, violent, fascist culture of the powerful Islamic countries of today.
The clashes of the Reformation between the non-conformists and the Catholic Church, which established the concept of freedom of thought....
The clashes between fascism and the "free world".
The clash between Soviet communism and the great capitalist states....never fought directly, because of the treat of total nuclear destruction, but fought, nonetheless, on the economic battlefield, and by the use of massive military threat in containment.....
What history teaches is this: value your freedom? your riches? your ability to speak out and vote?
Then be prepared, ready,...... indeed, eager to defend them against all comers. Be aggressive, threatening, and above all, tolerate no military challenge, when hit, strike back immediately with over-whelming force.......Be self-confident, arrogant....BELIEVE in the superiority of your way........or fail. Be overwhelmed.
Which is why I support western Israel against fascist Hamas.
We are failing in this....we have failed to challenge fascist China......which we should have treated exactly as we did Soviet Russia......and now we see them emerging as a great world power, thanks to our weakness.
The west has been guilty of crimes abroad....no doubt. But an attack on us can not be responded to with hand-wringing and self-recrimination.........but immediate violent retribtion......
So, JBee, where would you rather live? Washington, or Tehran? Simply put, that is the long-term choice. Our future, if we fail to defend our culture, may not be Islam.....but it will be dark, as we turn in upon ourselves, as we become a reflection of the history of Islam........