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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (300812)	8/20/2006 1:11:51 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578931

Hard ass politics don't work when all you use is the military. If you look back at the WWII era, hard ass politics were the only thing that saved the US from becoming a Japanese or German colony. What we need is a take no prisoners military and intelligence apparatus when it comes to fighting the Islamo-fascists. Then we also need a more liberal attitude towards other countries with Western ideals such as the Europeans, etc. Then we also need a very aggressive energy-independence policy. Put those together and we would be much better off. The failure of the Bush policy isn't that he calls a spade a spade with the Islamo-fascists, rather it's that he does it too publicly and he has no other strategy. If it were me, I wouldn't be making public declarations like "Bring it on". Rather, I would walk very softly, smile and pretend to be accomodating. Then I'd send a backroads diplomat to quietly tell Iran, they have 30 days to comply with the UN or we'll take out all their nuclear facilities, assassinate Ahmenidenijad, and deny the whole thing to the world. I'd play a double game that would make the Arabs proud of me. Hell, that's what they do every day. They smile and pretend to be innocent so that fools like you will feel sorry for those poor victims and then they go blow up babies in supermarkets. We need more multi-faceted, multi-strategic approach to bind our friends to us more tightly and attack the sources of funding and arming of the Islamo-fascists. Oh and btw, I'd use statistical profiling in any area that needs security. If it means more Muslims get targeted, then so be it. As with most things, it's not the idea that is the failure, it's the execution of the idea that makes all the difference. Democracy in the Middle East is a good idea. Bush's implementation of it is a failure due to his unbelievably lousy implementation. I wouldn't have invaded a country to bring it Democracy. I don't think it works that way. But I would take out governments that I thought were a threat to the US and I wouldn't ask the UN for permission. It's clear the UN is a toothless anachronism. We need a UDN. United Democratic Nations. Then we'd have an institution that would uphold Western values. It's clear that Islamic values are not compatible with Western values. So why are we being so politically correct and applying morale relativism? I for one am against that.