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What a stunning show of support, this trip by Pres. Bush to Iraq. It certainly boosted morale, and showed he's sticking by his decision to liberate Iraq. I didn't vote for Pres. Bush, or his father. But there's no getting around the fact he does, on occasion, have a flare for the dramatic. Bravo Zulu, Mr. President!
Happy Thanksgiving to all...eat well and enjoy being with your family and friends.
Islamist fascists are killing fellow Muslims while pursuing a war of genocide against Jews. Perfect logic for a genocidal ideology. To them, the important factor is not life, but death. They would rather kill a thousand Muslims rather than let one 'kufr' escape.
Saudi Arabia is finally starting to see some of the light. This purveyor of Islamic fascism is starting to change its school textbooks so they no longer say that "Muslims who live among non-Muslims should hate them". A small, but important step for the creators of Frankenstein Islam.
In the good old days, before the invention of human rights and science, Christians used to think everything revolved around Christianity. The universe was geocentric. Jews rejected Christ out of hatred for him, etc. etc.
In much of today's Muslim world, the same attitude is present. The rampant conspiracy theories, like those of the leader of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohammed, are rooted in Islamocentrism-the idea that the non-Muslim world's primary objective is to destroy Islam.
The fact is, religion just isn't that important. In the proposed monstrous European constitution, written by Valerie Giscaird d'Estaing, religion isn't even mentioned, though the Vatican insists it should be.
Those who insist 'kufrs' (non-believers) have nothing better to do than to plot to destroy Islam are medievalists without imagination. They can't see the world in its glorious splendor, and are challenged by its beauty. They ban music, art, literature, science, all in the name of 'God'. And, as the world relentlessly opens, these barbarians insist that every challenge, including democracy, is a plot to eliminate the only thing they know-Islam.
CNN is going on this morning about Iran's nuclear capabilities, and the fact they've admitted they lied about their nuclear weapons program. The case is being used to whip Germany, France and the UK about their support for a UN program of inspection that is slightly weaker than one wanted by the US, and, ironically enough, by the head of the IAEA.
At this point, I think the Europeans are right. I understand the need to keep pressure on both the UN and Iran, which is a major feature of US policy. But let's not get ahead of ourselves on the issue. We've seen that our intelligence in Iraq was faulty.
There's no doubt the Iranians will play the international community if they get a chance. But we know that game, too. "Good cop, bad cop" isn't a bad idea right now.
David Kopel, in "National Review" (http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/corner.asp), writes:
GUNS & ZIMBABWE [Dave Kopel]
The Strategy Page (Nov. 19) reports that, "President Mugabe and his cronies must be scared, since the police have been ordered to embark on a nationwide firearms audit starting on the 21st. They want the public to take their firearms and firearm certificates to their nearest police station, so the number of guns and types can be verified." As is typical in such situations, "The authorities are using the excuse of rising crime for this exercise."
As Paul Gallant, Joanne Eisen and I have detailed, "gun control" is the sine qua non of Mugabe's vicious regime.
The failure of the United Nations to act is one more instance of the UN's pathetic favoritism of tyrants, and one more reason why all freedom-loving people should resist the UN's gun prohibition programs.
What Kopel and others think, of course, is that guns give freedom. NRA types love that cliche. Proof? Well, there is none. None at all. The people of Iraq, under Hussein, had guns in every home, including AK-47's.
The fact is, a 'well armed populace' is no match for modern police and armed forces. A 'well armed populace' is not organized like an army is.
It's a myth, one much beloved of the right wing, that guns make you free. They don't. The Iraqis had guns and it did nothing for them at all.
