Politics: J'accuse!

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man


Reading most of your posts is like passing a traffic accident on the highway. Responding is like slowing down to look carefully at that accident; we know we shouldn't do it -- it just contributes to the congestion, but we can't look away.

S_A_M

You are undermining the war effort. Traitor.

[Secret_Agent_Man]

OK, once more I slow down and look to my left . . . Will I never learn?

Originally posted by Not Me
You are an idiot.

You may have a point. I am talking to you.

Originally posted by Not Me
I often post about the deaths and injuries being suffered by the US troops and express my grief and sadness over this.

Goody for you.

Originally posted by Not Me
You OTOH are constantly focusing on attacking anything the admin does because you feel it is in your political best interest.

You have limited ability to comprehend what you read, to retain what you read, or both.

Originally posted by Not Me
I haven't heard much from you about this POW.

So?

I rarely talk about such things to my friends, why would I raise them here? What would I have to add to a conversation on PFC Maupin? I have no particular insight, expertise, or added facts. Why post just to agree with everyone, or just to say: "Goddam, what a horrible thing, I sure feel sorry for that boy and his family! Ain't war a bitch. Hope he gets home."

Originally posted by Not Me
So fuck yourself asshole.

If you knew me IRL, you'd want me.

S_A_M

[ETA -- Either NPR or the WaPo ( I forget which) did an extensive piece on Maupin and his family within the last ten days. How often do you want them to run it?]

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
If you knew me IRL, you'd want me.

Doubtful. I would never date a Dem. The only time a Dem-Rep pairing works is when one of the two doesn't really care much about politics.

This is why Arnold cheats on Maria.

[Secret_Agent_Man]

Originally posted by Not Me
Doubtful. I would never date a Dem. The only time a Dem-Rep pairing works is when one of the two doesn't really care much about politics.

I never said we'd date.

S_A_M

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
I never said we'd date.

S_A_M

Well, first of all, I am taken. Second of all, I don't "want" men unless I get to know them and like and respect who they are as a human being. There aren't many Dems that I respect because so many of them are partisan hypocrits.

[Not Me]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040518/D82KVLF81.html

[Not Me]

http://www.danielpipes.org/article/1815

• Whence comes the main danger to homeland security in North America and Western Europe?
  
  With the exception of the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995, notes Al-Qaeda authority Rohan Gunaratna, all major terrorist attacks of the past decade in the West have been carried out by immigrants. A closer look finds that these were not just any immigrants but invariably from a specific background: Of the 212 suspected and convicted terrorist perpetrators during 1993-2003, 86% were Muslim immigrants and the remainder mainly converts to Islam.
  
  "In Western countries jihad has grown mainly via Muslim immigration," concludes Robert S. Leiken, a specialist on immigration and national security issues, in an important new monograph, Bearers of Global Jihad: Immigration and National Security after 9/11 (published by the Washington-based Nixon Center, where Leiken is employed). Leiken's research offers valuable insights.
  
  Violent acts against the West, he finds, "have been carried out largely through two methods of terrorist attack: the sleeper cell and the hit squad."
  
  Hit squads – foreign nationals who enter the country with a specific mission, such as the 9/11 hijackers — threaten from without. Sleeper cells consist of elements quietly embedded in immigrant communities; Pierre de Bousquet, head of France's counterintelligence service, says "they do not seem suspicious. They work. They have kids. They have fixed addresses. They pay the rent." Sleepers either run terrorism support networks of "Muslim charities, foundations, conferences, academic groups, NGOs and private corporations" (prime example: Sami Al-Arian of the University of South Florida) or initiate violence on a signal (like the Moroccans who killed 191 people in Madrid this March).
  
  That said, Muslim life in Western Europe and North America is strikingly different. The former has seen the emergence of a culturally alienated, socially marginalized, and economically unemployed Muslim second generation whose pathologies have led to "a surge of gang rapes, anti-Semitic attacks and anti-American violence," not to speak of raging radical ideologies and terrorism.
  
  North American Muslims are not as alienated, marginalized, and economically stressed. Accordingly, Mr. Leiken finds, they show less inclination to anti-social behavior, including Islamist violence. Those of them supporting jihad usually fund terrorism rather than personally engage in it. Therefore, most jihadist violence in North America is carried out by hit squads from abroad.
  
  And, contrary to expectation, these come predominantly not from countries like Iran or Syria, or even Saudi Arabia and Egypt, for the simple reason that their nationals undergo extra scrutiny. Islamist terrorists are not dumb; they note this special attention and now recruit intensively from citizens of the 27 countries – mostly European – who, thanks to the Visa Waiver Program, can enter America for 90 days without a visa.
  
  But even so, there are Frenchmen and there are Frenchmen. One named Zacarias Moussaoui, an Algerian immigrant, attracts more attention than one named Michael Christian Ganczarski, a Polish immigrant of German extraction – making a convert like Ganczarski the more potent jihadist. He is now sitting in a French jail, charged with a major role in the April 2002 bombing of a synagogue in Tunisia that killed 19 people.
  
  To a lesser extent, the same pattern applies to Israel. Hezbullah has made efforts to recruit Europeans like German convert Steven Smyrek, caught before he could strap on a bomb. Hamas deployed Britons Asif Muhammad Hanif and Omar Khan Sharif, who murdered three people at a Tel Aviv bar. The same pattern also applies to Australia – such as the case of French convert and would-be jihadist Willie Brigitte.)
  
  Mr. Leiken's insights lead to important conclusions for counterterrorism.
  
  * Assimilating indigenous Muslim populations is critical to the West's long-term security.
  
  * Given that the Islamist threat in the West "emanates principally from Europe," European and North American security services should recognize they face basically different problems: one primarily internal, the other mainly external.
  
  * Constructing immigration systems that keep out sleepers and hit squads while allowing normal business and pleasure travel should be a priority for Washington and Ottawa.
  
  * For Americans, adjusting the Visa Waiver Program and controlling land borders with Canada and Mexico are higher priorities than worrying about Iranians and Syrians.
  
  Mr. Leiken's research guides Westerners to real homeland security. But achieving this will be a challenge, for acknowledging the European Islamist source of violence means giving up today's easy reliance on euphemisms.

[Not Me]

http://www.foxsports.com/content/view?contentId=2408236

• LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Transsexuals have been cleared to compete in the Olympics for the first time.
  
  Under a proposal approved Monday by the IOC executive board, athletes who have undergone sex-change surgery will be eligible for the Olympics if their new gender has been legally recognized and they have gone through a minimum two-year period of postoperative hormone therapy.
  
  The decision, which covers both male-to-female and female-to-male cases, goes into affect starting with this summer's Athens Olympics.

If these males-turned-female transexuals don't have an unfair advantage over women athletes, why do we never see a female-turned-male competing in men's sports?

[Slave Once Again]

Originally posted by Not Me

If these males-turned-female transexuals don't have an unfair advantage over women athletes, why do we never see a female-turned-male competing in men's sports?

Piazza?

[Hank Chinaski]

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0...135751,00.html

reports that 4 people arrested for murder of Berg. no details yet who was arrested.

[Slave Once Again]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0...135751,00.html

reports that 4 people arrested for murder of Berg. no details yet who was arrested.

If Berg's socialist dad had any say I'd imagine its Rumsfeld, Bush, Bremer and Cheney.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Slave Once Again
If Berg's socialist dad had any say I'd imagine its Rumsfeld, Bush, Bremer and Cheney.

I heard Bush was against the arrest. He wants terrorist links to Iraq to justify our presence.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0...135751,00.html

reports that 4 people arrested for murder of Berg. no details yet who was arrested.

I noticed this but why haven't other news agencies picked the story up?

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I heard Bush was against the arrest. He wants terrorist links to Iraq to justify our presence.

I heard Bush had the sarin gas bomb planted to make it look like SH had WMDs. Everyone knows that SH never had any WMDs. The Kurds and the Iranians gassed themselves.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Slave Once Again
Piazza?

No thanks, already ate.