Sadly, your right blackparrot. That the American public would elect a man like Obama says it all... and that "all" is that we are witnessing the beginning stages of the collapse of American power and influence. It is happening faster than can even be imagined, but nature abhors a vacuum, and the other major world powers like Russia and China will necessarily move into that vacuum. But the civilized world will rue the day America surrendered it's preeminence because the coming real "new world order" will be far more brutal without America in the driver's seat.
Exactly right allenzhertz. The American public put this post-American leftist nutter in office, and they must bear the consequences for it. But let's not forget the pivotal role of the MSM in enabling this madness. The take-over of the MSM throughout the Western World by the lunatic left has sealed the fate of the Western World,and we see the bitter fruit being harvested. They're drinking the cool aid all over the Western world , and the Chinese, Russians, and Muslim world can hardly believe their luck! The West is self-destructing before their very eyes.
Surely that would be the rational course. Sadly, the fools leading the US and Israel are beyond the reach of reason. Same goes for the leadership of Europe as well. Catastrophe awaits us.
Bottom line here: Israel should do whatever is necessary to prevent the genocidal , Jihadist Mullahs in Iran from acquiring nukes. And if that means using their own nuclear arsenal , so be it. And if the Israelis have become so delusional that they are incapable of defending themselves(a real possibility), then perhaps they deserve their fate of total annihilation. The same can be said of the Western world as well. Weakness in the face of the global Islamic threat will only invite more catastrophes.
My thoughts exactly Maines! First time I ever agreed with Friedman. Well, I suppose even a blind squirrel will find an acorn now and then. Let these lands suffused with the ideology of Islam devolve and splinter into their natural state of being. This might be safer for the non-Muslim world in the long run. As you mentioned, these are artificially drawn borders post WW1 that need not be maintained.
Yes logdon! The Eloi are a perfect comparison. That is what they are.
Right on Charleston and ajwpip! To put Churchill another way: They know how to die, but not how to live.
Maines, one day , perhaps in the far future, those under the sway of Islam, in lands dominated by Islam, will come to see that the source of most of their woes is not Jews, or Isarel, or America, or the West, or the Bogie man; It is the monstrous ideology of Islam that inhibits their ability to evolve their consciousness. It is not about this tyrant , or that tyrant, but the fundamental tyranny of Islam itself. Unfortunately, to make matters even worse, the West has refused to confront this tyranny , and , in fact, excuses it and even promotes it. I think the best we can do right now is quarantine the region-that means no immigration, no Western aid (Jizyah) , alternative oil sources (plenty of oil in the world), no Western technology, no nothng! Cut it off and let it fester and implode . I know this is a pipe dream, but I can dream.....
Boot, you sicken me! Cutting off the western Jizyah should certainly have been done long ago., but you supported continuing aid when the Islamists took power. Now, you want to cut off aid when the Islamists have been removed. Seems to me the end result of your advice will be to empower the Brotherhood, and encourage the overthrow of the military which is keeping the Islamists in check. And please don't feed me this nonsense about human rights and democracy: In lands suffused with the ideology of Islam , any notion of human rights and democracy is patently absurd. How about the unique,and little tried, notion of implementing policies that help check the influence of Islam, and protect the Western (i.e., non-Muslim) world from the monstrous ideology of Islam. Of course, your policy proscriptions are identical to Mr. Obummer's , and we see where that has gotten us.
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