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  • Posted By: thebignag @ 12/31/2007 5:30:03 AM

    We need not worry about securing the nukes in Pakistan. Al Qeada and it???s cronies are not looking at stealing the nukes. They have already initiated the process to steal the state itself with all the booty. Of course, moving a few nukes from the present government control to their control will be a part of their short strategy befor the state comes under their total control. Pakistan is ripe for a steal. I would not be surprised if within the next year or so, Mush becomes history, the modernist secular middle class shot and bombed into silence and half the Paki army deserting and putting their lots with the Mullahs. That is when the world will be shitting in their pants???. US will have to pay a very heavy price for creating / using Mujahedins as state policy. And the second mistake - sleeping with the enemy ??? Pakistan a key ally BAH!!

  • Posted By: enterprise99 @ 12/30/2007 10:36:15 PM

    With nuclear weapons the key issue is that there is no military solution to the problem by itself. Politically through dialogue the issue of nuclear weapons has to be controlled not just through military means.
    If we supress nations and allow only small amounts of enrichment this will only cause resentment. Should countrise be able to join the NPT. The answer is yes if it is for peaceful purposes say to enrich uranium for electricity or research. To make plutonium for a bomb means enriching to 90% and this is why the world has cheques and balances in the system. The key question is what is a rogue state as the US wants rogue states restricted. Also geographically certain areas are of concern and then there are tests of dirty bombs. Russias pledge to provide Iran with enriched uranium is an example of cooperation. However in the long term I feel Iran will want to enrich its own uranium as transferring enriched yellowcake is complex. In summary every country can enrich for peaceful purposes but given the issues discussed the present model of rogue states and goegraphical phobia more dialogue is needed so more trust can be built in the system.

  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 12/30/2007 8:07:52 PM

    NO ONE LIKES BEING CAUGHT WITH THEIR PANTS DOWN. EXPERIENCE.AND JUDGEMENT. WHAT CAN HILLARY DO THAT OBAMA CANNOT. THIS IS THE QUESTION I HAVE BEEN ASKING MYSELF. I THINK THE WORLD WILL WELCOME OBAMA AND AT LEAST GAVE HIM A FAIR CHANCE. REPUBLICANS WILL SWALLOW THEIR PRIDE AND WORK WITH OBAMA. THEY WILL NEVER DO THAT WITH HILLARY. HILLARY AND EDWARDS ARE GOOD PEOPLE, HOWEVER THEIR VOTING RECORD AND THEIR LACK OF COURAGE HAS LEAD ME TO QUESTION WHETHER THEY HAVE THE RIGHT INSTINCTS AND JUDGEMENT TO BE IN OFFICE. I REALLY THINK THEY WOULD BE MORE EFFECTIVE UNDER AN OBAMA PRESIDENCY. OBAMA WILL NOT TRY AND CONTROL EVERYTHING.
    sANDY, EDWARDS IS DESpERATE. thIS MAN FOLLOWED JOHN KERRY. HE WILL DO AND SAY ANYTHING. EVEN IF HE MEANS IT NOW IT IS TOO LATE. OBAMA AND CLINTON ARE TOO SMART, THEY KNOW THAT WHAT YOU SAY TODAY COULD FINISH YOU TOMORROW. ONLY A CANDIDATE WITH NOTHING TO LOSE WILL SAY WHAT EDWARDS IS SAYING. WHAT HAS HE DONE. BE HONEST. HILLARY IS pROUD THAT SHE WENT AGIANST HER pRINCIpLES TO GIVE BUSH A BLANK CHECK. WHY. IT WAS GOOD FOR WESTERN NEW YORK. HILLARY IS NOT STUpID IF THE WAR HAD NEGATIVE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES IN BUFFALO, SHE WOULD HAVE VOTED AGAINST IT. TRANSpARENCY IS SOMETHING NIETHER pARTY WANTS. NO ONE LIKE GETTING CAUGHT WITH THEIR pANTS DOWN AND THEN LECTURED ABOUT JUDGEMENT CALL

  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 12/30/2007 8:07:42 PM


    MUSLIMS THAT ARE MODERATES AND peaceful are susceptible to the indoctrination of the JIHAD chapter. At any time a young MUSLIM can change and carry out an attack in the name of GOD. THIS IS WHY THE CHApter of JIHAD is so dangerous. WE have kids in this country who have grown up in this country, falling under the spell. Suicide bombers are even doctors and lawyers who are citizens in western countries. The crusades happened centuries ago. Your religion has not evolved it is still in the MEDIEVAL AGES and this is a big problem. This is why BHUTTO was so visciously assassinated. IT WAS A TERRORIST WEARING BLACK GLASSES THAT CARRIED OUT THE ASSISSINATION' WOW WHAT A MESSAGE, BHUTTO USED TO WEAR AMERICAN BLACK GLASSES. THERE are MILLIONS OF pakistanis that have rejected western culture and they have sent their message. IT HAS BEEN HEARD WITH A BANG AROUND THE WORLD

    Comment: Is this democracy or a family dynasty. Either you have democracy or you do not. Handing leadership to family members is the source of corruption. What a chocie, corruption and an American runned government or the Military. We need to let people choose their destiny if not we will be stuck where we do not belong. I as an American am distrurbed that we are medaling all around the world, while people on this side are starving, homeless, without health care ectt.... THis is crazy, just because Bhutto dies we would choose a nut like Guilliani.
    Even moderate Muslims are swayed by the JIHAD CHApter. The offspring of these moderates have already carried out attacks in England and have tried in Canada and AMerica.Wow. Homegrown Citizens. What is amazing is how they are influenced by the Iraq war. They turn on the T.V and become enraged. It is like they have smelled "BAD BARBECUE". Their only hope to strike back is JIHAD. Remember Muslims have been indoctrinating their own for centuries. They have finally perfected it. This chapter allows leaders to indoctrinate their people all around the world. The " Ayattolah" has used this doctrine on Salman Rushdie who is an INDIAN. The only way to deal with a nuclear threat, is in private. We should gurantee all countries FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS. However if the people choose an extremist government that wants to use weapons of mass destruction then they must understand the consequences. IT IS THESE SAME CONSEQUENCES THAT have DETERed RUSSIA FROM USING THEIR NUCLEAR ARSERNAL AS MUSCLE. WE WILL Annihlate YOU if you threaten with nuclear weapons. That is why the Middle East Governments threaten Israel because they know better. The same goes for pakistan, any government that takes power after Free and Fair Elections, will be delivered the same message, In addition, they will assist us in the HUNT FOR BIN LADEN. Keeping Bin LADEN alive seems to be making a lot of people rich.

  • Posted By: Visitor on Earth @ 12/30/2007 3:24:35 AM


    Isalmic fundamentalists, and evil (P2 1 of 2)

    Regarding Jerusalem - if some Native Indians tomorrow claim Washington DC, you would give them half ? Or put it under UN supervision? (Mind you: Europeans were NOT there before the Natives, whereas Jews WERE in Israel before Arabs, even if they were later mostly dispersed. You really OCCUPIED their land!). And would you also give half of Texas to Mexico ? You would STILL have much more security in the remaining land than Israelis would: without the West Bank Israel is only 8 MILES (!) wide at its waist (at Netanya)! - a temptation for neigbouring Arab countries' tanks! Btw, a Q : if Cuba's Communists showered Florida with rockets (as Hamas showers Israel from Gaza) say honestly, would the US would react gingerly like Israel, or would it FLATTEN Cuba?
    Your remark "Islamic (...) fundamentalism (...) consequently is easily defeated". How sadly and naively wrong!
    You seem to think Islamic fundamentalism is a new, fleeting phenomenon, soon to disappear out of sheer evil and stupidity! No, it dates from the prophet Muhammad himself, when in 622 CE he moved to Medina (13 years after his revelations from Allah) and began raiding caravans and subjugating his land. How do you think Islam conquered all the countries now Islamic ? By persuasion? Huh ? No, by the RELIGIOUS Islamic bloody sword! In India for example Muslim conquerors in their final conquests (Bihar, 1193 CE) killed TENS of millions of Hindus (and practically ALL Buddhists who were, due to their religion, UNARMED). No Buddhism in India since then! As I said in my post - they did it as commanded to do in the Koran (Chapter 9, verse 5; et al)
    Islam never gave almost anything to its people. (Except booty). The acclaimed "Muslim achievements" in medicine in the Middle Ages (when Europe was indeed backward) were APPROPRIATED by Muslims from Persian and Indian culture! And YET Islamic fundamentalism endures: While US sends space probes to Neptune and Pluto and beyond (and Israel invents ever-smaller microchips) in Saudi Arabia convicted men are executed by BEHEADINGS (not by criminals but by Islamic law) publicly in the city's central square! (A Hindu friend of mine who worked there saw it with his own eyes). Islamists rule in other Muslim countries too.
    So unfortunately, Islamic fundamentalism will not be "easily defeated" (have you EVER seen in the media a SINGLE demonstration or protest by Muslims against ANY atrocity by Islamic fundamentalists ? ) Europe is learning: already Muslim-dominated areas in England and France demand sharia laws ! Your country too is beginning to learning : already Americans may NOT speak freely about Islam in the (physical) media (because it makes them "racist")! Thanks God for the internet! For how long ?!
    Woe are we all, if the world, with you, sees a handful of Jewish settlers (who do NOT kill) as a problem balancing Islamic fundamentalism who would (if they only could!) kill MILLIONS !!

    G.A.

    • Posted By: dirtybutclean @ 12/30/2007 1:07:55 PM

      Hey, I admire your sense of courage in taking head-on all this tripe about islam being a peace-loving religion. Political correctness is getting on to ridiculous levels nowadays. I'm happy we still got right-thinking people inhabiting this planet.
      Jai Hind!

  • Posted By: dirtybutclean @ 12/30/2007 1:03:08 PM

    All talk about the nukes finding their way into religious fundamentalists' hands is not just a matter of conjecture or vague speculation. I have the sneaking feeling that it has already happened and al-Qaeda is just waiting for the most opportune moment to strike. A preemptive strike against Pakistan is not necessarily a shocking alternative. This cauldron of terror needs to be consigned to the dustbin of history forever.

  • Posted By: nukejet75 @ 12/30/2007 12:55:33 PM

    Pakistan is another huge disaster waiting to happen.Already the nukes are in the hand of a terrorist nation,but if it gets into the hands of the osma friends,Something bigger that 9/11 would happen.its not the question of if ,but when.if you look at the history of the "pakistani nuclear program",AQ Khan stole the tech from the europians and after further developing it ,he sold it to other countires like libya.if such a high ranking person(Supposed to be Father of atomic program,but is a common theif) is willing to sell to the highiest bidder,why not those paki generals who are stealing American money in the name of "war on terror". If American foriegn policy keeps this direction of supporting pakistan in the so called war on terror,(Giving the terrorist money to fight the terrorist) and expecting true democracy in pakistan.Is the American administration blind to the history of pakistan or have they lost their marbles.I know Amerians have strike capabilites against convensional armies,but we are dealing with freaks beliving a invisible person promising them X number of pu**y in the after life and will go any extent to enjoy that.Hope America wakes up and takes direct military control of all the nukes and destroys them before the p***y hungry freaks get hold of it.

  • Posted By: rich99 @ 12/29/2007 11:29:32 AM

    It is now imperative that the US target 1000 Pakistani landfills. Any launch of a Pakistani nuclear missle toward any target would result in immediate US retaliation.

    The game is up Musharref. Either get your country civilized or it faces extinction.

    I am sure the rag-headed Taliban understands this kind of force. Al-Qaeda will never get it, but their DNA is history.

    It is time to warn these international outlaws that enough is enough. No more ground troops, just a little Plutonium in your face ought to get your attention- no more talk, no more diplomacy- just one great big stick.

    • Posted By: Braes @ 12/30/2007 10:38:15 AM

      It's 2300 nice Hydrogen Bombs, or 722,000 various special gravity munitions, etc. I'd suggest we have my 4 Carrier Minimum "High, how are you?" first. I might be retired USAF but the best things we have are the Carriers. They can reach about anything on earth depending on how far out you intend to extend fuel.

    • Posted By: Braes @ 12/30/2007 10:00:23 AM

      Persistent nerve and Bioweapns in the mountains. Salt the entire area. EMP burst above the PAK to put out the lights completely. Using 4 Carriers take down any strategic objective, offer China all the Kashmir they and India want to settle over. B-2 all of the known Nuclear facilities with 330kt Mirved Shots. Remember to send lots of Iodine to neighboring countries ahead of time. Might need to arrange food for 1.62 Billion people for 3 years. May wipe out Asian Bird Flu as the 600 Rad/hr environment solves birds.
      Logistics, backorder all of that.

  • Posted By: brianfields @ 12/29/2007 12:36:26 PM

    The US is not going to do anything about Paki nukes, untill its too late. Bush should have gone after pakistan and saudis, not iraq. But even this mistake will not be fixed anytime soon. The saudis will keep spreading their wahhabi poison to all parts of the muslim world with their petro dollar, and the pakis will keep training and harboring terrorists right under the americans nose. Things could have been done post 9/11, but
    now the america
    ns dont have the will or the credibility to take on such a grand project. The world is in for a rough ride, you might want to clean up your nuclear bunkers.


    • Posted By: pinkpanther87413 @ 12/29/2007 1:06:20 PM

      YOUR RIGHT ABOUT OUR COMPLIANCE WITH DISARMING. IN FACT OUR IDEA OF DISARM IS TO TAKE A MUTIPLE-WARHEAD AND BREAK DOWN AND USE ONE WARHEAD PER MISSLE, SO YA WE ARE IN VIOLATION OF YET ANOTHER TREATY WE SIGNED, AND PLEDGED OUR ASST WITH AFRICA AND RUSSIAN ENRICHED NUKE COMPONETS, AND HAVE NOT DONE ONE THING-YET-I HOPE! WERE I DISAGREE. WE DO HAVE A HUGE PR PROBLEM, IT IS NOT OUR ABILITY THAT'S IN QUESTION, IT'S COMPLETLY UNAFFORDABLE, AFTER THE COST FOR TAKING THE EASY TARGET, WHO HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH WTC. CREDIBILITY IS ANOTHER HARD SELL FOR US TODAY ALSO, BUT I BELIEVE IT'S THE MONEY, AND THE CONTROL OF THE OIL, WHICH IS OUR BIGGEST BARRIER, AS GREED IS THE FUEL THAT RUNS THE WORLD! AMERICA JUST TRIES TO RULE IT, INSTEAD OF OUR OWN COUNTRY.

      • Posted By: rich99 @ 12/29/2007 2:36:31 PM

        What a convoluted, paranoid, hanging participle comment.

        The last time any other nation complied with a nuclear treaty was never.

        If you think Iraq was not involved in the Islamofascist conspiracy and WTC, you are completely deluded.

        It is your right to swallow the liberal left propaganda, but it is my privilege to suggest you move to Iceland, where geothermal might keep you warm.

        You only got one thing right- OIL. Now how do you think the liberal- left is going to keep you warm and electrfied without it?

        • Posted By: Braes @ 12/30/2007 10:32:50 AM

          The energy task force. Since 2002 not a page from the OVP has made it to the national archives.

  • Posted By: shoegen @ 12/30/2007 8:57:48 AM

    The USA has drawn up plans for securing Pakistans nuclear arsenal in case hostile elements take over the government there..It is needless to say that would be an extremely difficult and bloody military operation. This is why the US is using all the influence it can to shape a US friendly government and an ally in the global war on terror.Diplomacy and foreign aid seem to be working for the time being but if all their efforts should go south on them they would put plan B into effect. All known missle sites will be bombarded and all of their mobile rocket launchers will be pinpointedand destoyed.These plans are discussed and updated every day and new targets are added and change constantly from real-time satelite surveilance. So lets not dilude ourselves into thinking the US can do nothing they just choose to wait and see for now.

    • Posted By: Braes @ 12/30/2007 10:30:19 AM

      B-2's and gravity 330kt shots, airburst, 3850ft AGL. 472 hits and divots, all long drives. 2nd place in a Nuclear War is a bad thing. We can't invade doo doo in a nation of 130 million anything. That would take 3-4 years of build up. See WWII. 16.8mil in uniform. 30,000,000 women get jobs and greater social equality. (Have only had vote 20 years.) 1941 and 9/11 were handled differently. We took our eye off the Nation State that held cotrol of the bad actor. We also didn't build out a mass national capacity to take and hold by what Schwarzkopf would agree was overwhelming force, logistics and manouver. Nope, we didn't do that.
      Someone called it "Long-Hard-Slog" which has been lay it to the troops. Going Saddam hunting for various Oil consortia through the VP's office kept us from focusing on the people who attacked us.

  • Posted By: naseersid @ 12/29/2007 10:06:06 AM

    bhuto's assasination might prove to be a blessing in disguise for pakistan. with ppp emerging stronger, if its leaders play their cards properly, there is a possibility of a renewed vigour to address the issue of terrorism. if musharraf has to stay, he has to rise above himself and come out as a statesman. inviting all parties without prejudice to contest elections, re-appointment of a caretaker government and election commission acceptable to all parties, is the most likely solution. elections should be postponed for a month to allow all parties to launch their campaigns effectively. us should back pakistan to hilt.

    • Posted By: Braes @ 12/30/2007 10:17:31 AM

      The polity of that region has been unsettled for 200 years. The last guy either heads for exile or is killed. Musharraf as a hanger-on wouldn't last long. This is a chess board on which kings have played for thousands of years. He is a checked King moving now toward an eventual mate. Unfortunately for him there are 4 other sets coming for him, no one plays solo here. Montgomery held that it was a rule of land warfare to not get one's army stuck on the Asian Landmass. Likewise the position of ex-warlord in a land of warlords. The United States should talk to the Nations in the Region about their operative and political concerns and the build the diplomacy and force to act. The India Pakistan split has been a slow motion civil war like the American but with Modern weapons and armies. Now you have nukes where division weakens you. You have people based in your lands who cause pernicious acts at home and abroad.

  • Posted By: truthuntold @ 12/29/2007 11:32:13 AM

    When will people just admit that no one on this earth has the answers? No one has to be told that things are getting worse! The answer can be found in "the greatest book ever written"!

    • Posted By: Boggy @ 12/29/2007 8:22:54 PM

      That's true! I looked in THGTTG and found that the answer IS in there! It's 42!

      • Posted By: Braes @ 12/30/2007 10:01:20 AM

        OMG that's funny, do you happen to have a towel and babblefish?

    • Posted By: Boggy @ 12/29/2007 8:24:15 PM

      That's True! I looked in the greatest book ever written, and it says the answer is 42! Now we can all relax and get on with gettin' on.

  • Posted By: usmanbinihsan @ 12/29/2007 4:38:55 AM

    Excuse Us! Mr. Graham Alison and Newsweek Team, You guys in the west are concerned about Pakistani Nuclear weapons? Just guess the security state of your own Nuclear weapons in US! They fly over Half of the united states with them being loaded on B-52 like ordinary bomb loads and the nukes remian unnoticed for so called trained nuclear personels of US airforce and nobody cares about them but the secured weapons of Pakistan become such a big threat to world peace that you people just can't stop terrorizing the people about their harmful nature. Kindly just get you direction and attitude staight about Pakistan.

    • Posted By: Braes @ 12/29/2007 5:19:48 AM

      Yes, apparently North Dakota was upset with the south and flew 6 nukes here. They could not be armed, shot or used. They stayed on base and lots were sacked. None of the people inside the United States are looking to snatch one and use it.
      Pakistan? you have a 2500km capability. there are 200,000 US/NATO forces in that range and a lot of Russians, Chinese and Indians. You have Taliban and Al Qaeda all over you. Probably a differing situation than what surrounds our stockpiles.
      Trust me, the Pakistani stockpile has my undivided attention. Bush dragged us off the real problem and sent us to Iraq for Cheney and oil. Musharraf let Bhutto get killed, and she was admittedly advancing the United States agenda. We take that kind of thing poorly. She was there to change the policies away from the military rule and poverty that make Taliban and Al Qaeda thrive.
      Nice spin try there. Give up Bin Laden. Give up Ayman Al What's his face. Being in the nuclear club means we wont attack you with ground troops, and we wont fight any proxy war with you. You will get our A-Game. Iraq was a disaster that prevented us from coming to get your bad actors.
      I guess you are ISI or just on the payroll of Musharraf. I have my mind real right about Pakistan. I do not trust you. I figure your history of murdering or deporting every leader since independence from India should say something about your rule of law. You are a batch of mad butchering fiends with nukes. You support my enemies, while taking my aid to remove them.
      You need to start digging deep basements and getting Iodine tablets brother. Remember, when building a nuclear shelter to take a few months food and water down there.

      • Posted By: nova_767 @ 12/30/2007 6:02:29 AM

        You are right about something, but do show a lot of ignorance about others. Let me clearify a few for you. Bhutto had two opportunities to get everything done, but all she managed to do, is empty the treasury for her private use. Yes Pakistan has taken care so called leaders in the past, but rightfully so. Nature does a balancing act in every case. If a leader betrays the publc confidence, steals or kills in order to extend the office tenure, chances are public will take action since the elctions cannot be trusted while the guilty party still in power.
        I wouldn't worry about Pakistan that much. If you are a US citizen, departure of millions of jobs, running up the natl debt to 9 trillion, babyboomers soon sucking up whatever left in the treasury, should be your primary concerns. I really like to know, if you loose your job like so many million, get your house foreclosed on, would be still give a **** about others.

        • Posted By: Braes @ 12/30/2007 9:51:40 AM

          Nice off topic trail-away... Bhutto was OUR puppet. That's so we would have a Government we could operate more directly. Sharif is Saudi Arabia's puppet. The military is still mostly Mushararafs puppet and what really matters most.
          I am not missing a thing. Our nation debt as a total function of the rate and sum of our currency in daily world markets and it's recognition in 182 countries as an element of state wealth makes your other point drivel. 9 trillion of several dozen trillion of economic activity annually? A fractional expansion of our currency to create markets.
          Bhutto's Husband was Mr. 10% no? They raped Pakistan for a bunch of money right? Well, with 1=$10 Billion of it snatched by the puppet monkey Musharraf, I like the America Owns it Bhutto option. I'll tax their 10%. If I get 90% of what I want to do in building and infastructure into those areas and past a military, then the Pakistani people can have their middle class back. We had a plan that got shot and killed.
          I can cover my nice mortgage brother. Thanks for the misplaced concern.

  • Posted By: Visitor on Earth @ 12/30/2007 3:12:45 AM


    Isalmic fundamenrtalists, and evil (Pt 1 of 2)

    To jncc1701

    Since you mention Israel (unknowledgeably) let me explain:

    First, you seem to think land was occupied by Israel from the "Palestinians" - tell me WHEN in history it belonged to Palestinians and I will send you a free ticket to Hawaii as reward. (Most Arabs CAME from neigbouring areas because of economic activity by immigrating Jews). The very WORD "Palestinians" refers to Arabs ONLY since the mid 1900s !

    "double talk and using religious doctrine" ? - You, like many, seem to be unknowledgeable about the Israeli-Palestinian issue so I'll explain.

    About 20 % of the Israeli population are Muslim Arabs (called "Israeli Arabs" to distinguish them from Palestinian Arabs) and have equal rights. So there's no problem with "religious doctrine" towards them. But If you mean towards PALESTINIAN (Muslim) Arabs in the West Bank then yes, right-wing "Jewish extremists" do settle on that UNINHABITED ("occupied") land. In you (and not just your) view they are responsible for all the World's evil ? Responsible even if Islamists soon wield Pakistan's nuclear weapons !? :-)

    In Palestinian-controlled Gaza not a SINGLE JEW is allowed to live in. He would be killed "within half an hour" (as a taxi driver whom I asked how long we would survive if we entered Gaza told me. Some Israelis have already been LYNCHED there.) They try to murder literally EVER SINGLE JEW they can, and when they succeed they are seen by most Palestinians as HEROES. (When an Israeli soldier - very rarely - kills a [NON-terrorist] Palestinian he is TRIED IN COURT!) A neutral (Norwegian) polls says that a MAJORITY (c. 60 %) of Palestinians in Gaza support terrorism (not just against Israel but, interestingly, against the West in general !). Unique, I think, in history: a MAJORITY of a people - supports what is clearly evil!

    Is all this "the other side of the religious fanaticism coin"? The balance that you well-intentionally (but naively and falsely) see ?

    You, like many others do not understand the core of the problem: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is NOT about parts of territory ! If so it would have been resolved long ago! At Camp David Arafat was offered 98 % of the disputed ("occupied") land PLUS 2 % of Israel proper (to compensate for the Jewish settlements in the West Bank), but he refused out of hand.

    The ONLY reason why the Israeli-Palestinian is not solvable is because Islamists believe their RELIGION demands that ALL of Israel be theirs! Because Muhammed visited it on a horse IN A VISION (or dream) ! Later the Al Aksa Mosque was built on that spot.

    G. A.

  • Posted By: new0214 @ 12/30/2007 12:30:00 AM

    Its more important to realize that the world is facing a threat today, far greater than the threat the world has faced any time in the past. Muslims know its only a matter of time before they get hold of a dirty bomb, weather radioactive, chemical or biological ( maybe even nuclear ) which is portable ( This is not my opinion - technology will MAKE this happen )

    While non-muslims are busy sounding important, and while the politicians in the West are debating nothing, while opinion makers all over are yapping, while human right activists are making peace marches, - the Muslims are busy sitting in their houses and laughing at non muslims. Because the real jehad is not bombs, or this submission nonsense. The real jehad is PATIENCE. Patience to tide over the window period and hit when it hurts.

    Moderate Muslims only serve to keep westerners confused and disorganised ??? until the window period is over. I have always maintained that 9/11 was a picnic. Soon the jehadis can put that portable dirty bomb in a merchant navy ship and let it dock in - say san francisco, maybe in apartment blocks in europe. Anything can happen

  • Posted By: new0214 @ 12/30/2007 12:28:04 AM

    Its more important to realize that the world is facing a threat today, far greater than the threat the world has faced any time in the past. Muslims know its only a matter of time before they get hold of a dirty bomb, weather radioactive, chemical or biological ( maybe even nuclear ) which is portable ( This is not my opinion - technology will MAKE this happen )

    While non-muslims are busy sounding important, and while the politicians in the West are debating nothing, while opinion makers all over are yapping, while human right activists are making peace marches, - the Muslims are busy sitting in their houses and laughing at non muslims. Because the real jehad is not bombs, or this submission nonsense. The real jehad is PATIENCE. Patience to tide over the window period and hit when it hurts.

    Moderate Muslims only serve to keep westerners confused and disorganised ??? until the window period is over. I have always maintained that 9/11 was a picnic. Soon the jehadis can put that portable dirty bomb in a merchant navy ship and let it dock in - say san francisco, maybe in apartment blocks in europe. Anything can happen

  • Posted By: alexk @ 12/29/2007 11:39:11 PM

    world will wake up only pak nukes explode in some country. Then every one say , i told you so. But no one taken any action. pathetic and dumb humanity!.

  • Posted By: thunderbolt @ 12/29/2007 11:18:41 PM

    Focus on the root of all evil: Global Warming! Come on, Gore! Weigh in on this debate and get the priorities straight.

  • Posted By: jncc1701 @ 12/29/2007 9:59:40 PM

    to Goran A
    The issue of religious fanaticism is different from the Palestinian/Israeli issue or that matter WW II. American foreign policy has been myopic at times (allowing Pakistan to have nuclear wepons because India has it was especially stupid) especially now. Instead of securing Afghanistan and develop it economically our president decided to settle old family scores and invade Iraq - diverting badly needed resources to this war.
    In the interim, Israel continues to build settlements in the occupied territory. Note I have nothing against Israel existing or having security - I do have a problem with double talk and using religious doctrine to decide who lives on what land. this is the other side of the religious fanaticism coin.

    What we should do is get a dictator in power in Iraq, get the hell out - deal with the Taliban/Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and demand serious discussions about establishing the two state solution including either separating Jerusalem or putting it under UN control. If this is refused we in the US needs to disengage politically and divert our tax dollars to domestic issues.
    We are getting dragged into tribal wars that predate the founding of the US - and confusing this with Islamic fundamentalism.

    Islamic (or any religious) fundamentalism has given nothing to its people, and concequently is easily defeated - but we must stop confusing it with Iraq, Palestine, Israel or Nazis if we are to free ourselves from such stupidity.

  • Posted By: Visitor on Earth @ 12/29/2007 9:15:10 PM


    Will anyone explain (without reflexively calling me an Islamophobe) WHY was a country like Pakistan, which has strong fundamental Islamist movements (for quite some time perilously close to the apex of power), ALLOWED by the civilized world to build nuclear weapons ? Do political interests and calculations override the very real danger to the LIVES of millions of people in countries perceived as enemies by the jihadists ?!

    According to the Jerusalem Post (27.12.2007): "Across Pakistan's tribal belt, music stores and barbershops have closed and attacks against men without beards and unaccompanied women have increased. In one area, Islamists have warned women that their marriages will be annulled unless their husbands grow beards."

    Lets call a spade a spade: a SIGNIFICANT part of the Islamic world (though not all of it of course) has been infested by the virus imbecilicus and thus suffers from the spiritual and emotional inflammationn the diagnosis of which is: Imbecilicus Islamitis .


    They are entitled to it! But the problem is that these Jihadists want to substitute the sword of the 7 th century with the nuclear bomb of the 21 st century in their bid to kill as many of us "infidels" as they can (as commanded to do in the Koran, Chapter 9, verse 5) AND at the same time be rewarded by entering their Islamic Paradise ("Jannat" in Arabic) where they believe they are promised "high-bosomed virgins " (The Koran, chapter 78, verse 31), described also as "bashful, dark-eyed virgins, as chaste as the sheltered eggs of ostriches" (The Koran, chapter 37, verses 40-48).


    In WW II the world Nazism was combatted WITHOUT hearing accusations of being of "Germanophobes!" So let us, similarly, face this revolting evil of Islamic funfamentalists (who in, contrast to Nazis, don't even hide their evil deeds but are PROUD of them !) WITHOUT being blasted as "Muslim-haters" or "racists".

    May Almighty God help us all !

    Goran A., Jerusalem, Israel

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