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Politics : New FADG.
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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (853)5/24/2007 3:16:50 PM
From: HawkmoonRead Replies (3) of 4152
 
As a nation fighting the war in Iraq we're like a family watching the house burn. We want to do something but there's nothing we can do but watch. And we ought to have enough sense to stay away from the conflagration.

Yeah.. we did the same thing for 2 1/2 years from Sept, 1939 until we were attacked on Dec 7th, 1941.

And before that, we did the very same thing from 1914 to 1917.

Years of watching the "house" burn down in Europe.

And now the very same kinds of totalitarian inspired forces, PUBLICLY SWORN TO WAGE WAR UPON US FOREVER, are burning down the house in the Middle East in order to establish a "home turf" from which to reach out and wage that war against us.

Ed.. you can sit back and watch that house burn, but eventually you're going to need to grab a firehose (to borrow FDR's analogy) and risk your life trying to put that fire out before your own house catches fire. That's the nature of fire.. it needs to find additional fuel to keep it burning.

It was an apt analogy then, from the mouth of a Democratic president, and it's still applicable today... And it will be applicable in a couple of years when a new president is chosen to sit in the Oval office.

And the fire in the heart of the Jihadist movement MUST have a perpetual sworn enemy for it to exist. This isn't just about dominating a particular Muslim country and being satisfied with that. It's about waging global Jihad and bringing about a global Caliphate.

It doesn't matter whether or not we want to fight them, or not.. we don't have a choice. The only choice we have is that of choosing the battlefield on which to confront them.

Hawk
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