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Sunday, August 21, 2005

SAUDI ARABIA, JORDAN, PAKISTAN, AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ: who is doing the most to fight jihadoterror?

I think the answer is Saudi Arabia. They seem to be killing the most al Qaeda terrorists and they seem to be able to kill or capture big-shots, too. (This in spite of the fact that they might very well be the spiritual center of jiahdism, and their ruling family and their spy services and their army may be riddled with jihadists.) Meanwhile, Musharraf and Karzai seem unable to help us even locate Binladen or Zawahiri or Mullah Omar. And everyday, jihadists seem to be pouring into Iraq - as if the borders were non-existent - possibly infiltrating the police and nascent Iraqi Army. It seesm to me AT THE VERY LEAST, Iraqis ought to be able to maintain effective borders.

The problems which Pakistan and Iraq and Afgahnistan are having reveal the basic problem with WW4: as long as Muslim governments are ambiguous or ambivalent about fighting the enemy, NOTHING we do can completely eliminate the enemy. And a virtual stalemate ensues. Thius stalemate is VERY DANGEROUS because WW4 - like all wars - needs the support of the American people, and the Left and the Democrats have no compunction about using the sense of stalemate to slam the president and the war, and thereby erode popular support for the war -- which directly aids the enemy. Setting an artificial deadline for withdrawal, and setting an incredibly low-level of acceptable casualties for us in the war, are just two ways the Left undermines popular support for the war and thereby aids the enemy.

Therefore, I think we need to putting MUCH more pressure on the half-hearted allies (Pakistan, Jordan, Afghanistan) - by making our aid, and trade, and loans and insurance - and the "umbrella" protection of the US armed forces - CONDITIONAL on how well the fight the enemy. The "US OR THEM" / "with us or against us" stance of Bush immediately after 9/11 still makes the mnost sense to me now. We just need to put more teeth in it. And let's start by issuing ultimatums to Syria and Iran on their border control: "If one more jihadist or one more bomb gets through then we will cruise-missile attck yopu military until it's dust." SOUND TOO TOUGH TO YOU!? Hell, this is war, and war is hell.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

NO IT DOESN'T SOUND "TOUGH", JUST PLAIN STUPID. YOU SEEM TO BELIEVE THAT WAR IS LIKE A VIDEO GAME AND WE CAN BOMB ANYONE AS WE PLEASE. IRAQ SHOULD BE A PROOF THAT IDIOTIC MILITARY ACTION ARE NOT A SOLUTION BY THEMSELVES, BUT THAT IS ASKING TOO MUCH FROM YOUR UNDERDEVELOPED BRAIN.

Reliapundit said...

my undeveloped brain. guess i got that masters in a crap game.

you are a moron.

all appeasement ever got was a worse war.

chamberlain thought he had "peace in poit time."

sometimes you just gotta destroy bad people. like the KKK and NAZIS and commies.

YUPO: war never solved anything except slaverry fascism nazism communism and now jihadism.

and the best way to make this war end quicker and with less casulaties is to make sure ourt adversaires know we will WHACK them if they mess with us.

bush senior's ambiguity in 1990 MIGHT have contributed to motivating saddam's invasion of kuwait.

clarity and forcefulness do more to promote peace and shorthen war and pussyfootingmealymouthed appeasing.

oure enemies will be less adventurous if they know we will WHACK them if they mess with us.

TR said talk softly byut carry a big stick.

i say, talk loudly and clearly and then carry a HUMUNGOUS STICK, and USE IT!

Anonymous said...

I guess this guy hates muslim then.

Just like how the Nazi hated jews

Did you knw that the US aided an Nation that was commiting mass Genocide ? ( Aiding isreal to kill Palistien children and pregnant women)

Are thiose people Nazia or what
And here is reliapundit saying he wanted to kill NAzi I think your the teroists , thats what terroist do KILL AMerican.

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