I think the most recent elections were a repudiation of a Republicanism grown too comfy with the perks of government. The first sign was their abandoning Term Limits shortly after gaining power in January, 1995. It was mainly downhill from there.

Out West and down South most of the Dem gains were from “Blue Dawg” Democrats, with as many as 31% of eveangelical Christians voting for “New Democrats” like Heath Schuler.” That too, is the Republicans fault for tokenizing Christian Conservatives – patting them on the heads and throwing them the occasional “no or low cost bone,” like their ill-fated Schiavo intervention.

Already Pelosi’s had to backtrack from Murtha and Hastings…so that’s an encouraging sign…so was the fact that “gay Marraige” was voted down by 8 of 9 states and Eminent Domain was restricted on 9 of 11 ballot measures.

We just don’t seem to have the guts to do what needs to be done.

It may well take another major attack for us to find the fortitude to do what is needed.

Looking at the latest election results where it seems hard liners were not favored that might be the sad truth.

With Milosevic dead, we may never know the whole story regarding things there. We do know since Clinton got involved Europe has been over-run faster by people who claim to follow “pure Islam”.

Europe is very close to being transformed from within into Eurabia. One pundit said that he could see a day, not far away where Europeans wall themselves off in little Euro-enclaves ceding control of the rest to the Muslims.

The problem is that we ignored this for too long.

The first WTC attack occurred in 1993 and the threat was ignored until Septmeber of 2001.

I was always curious as to why we got involved in the Balkans. BOTH sides had engaged in genocide, but only Milocevic and the Christian Serbs were called on it. We sided with the Albanian Muslims (more “Moderate Sharia-beleivers) perhaps to chow the increasingly radicalized Muslim world that we “meant them no harm.”

Typical pansey-ass Liberal pablum – “If we show them we like them, they won’t hate us and try to hurt us.”

Wrong answer.

Sadly, the only thing that savages understand is savagery. They understand force, all else is weakness. We needn’t worry about whether they want to harm us, we must make THEM worry about us harming THEM! That’s how wars are won.

As for 9/11, it certainly transformed the FDNY over night…and not for the better.

343 killed that day. Hundreds of others put off the job shortly after and thousands more men with decades of experience retired in the wake of all the overtime worked in the years directly after…most of them couldn’t stay on as they’d lose pension money that their families would never make up.

Today, out of over 10,000 members, less than 3,000 were active on 9/11/01 or before, only a few hundred “dinasaurs” (like myself) with over twenty years, remain.

There’s a guy in my firehouse who was Special Forces in Afghanistan…I’ve said to him, “Your skills are wasted here. What we need are some “quick strike” teams right here in the U.S., not to arrest the terror cells but to ferret them out and eliminate them.

We just don’t seem to have the guts to do what needs to be done.

It may well take another major attack for us to find the fortitude to do what is needed.

Sorry to hear about your friends. You guys will be in my prayers.

We can still win this.

I hadn’t heard that, but he’s 100% right…dhimmitude (pronounced Zimmi-tude) proves that beyond any measure.

I certainly hope the truth gets out.

I’ve been a firefighter (FDNY) for 21 years, 19 of them in the South Bronx.

I lost fifty guys I knew on 9/11 and many others since to various rare cancers and lung disorders. For the past two years I’ve worked in a Hazmat Unit (the FDNY’s only fully dedicated HazMat Unit) studying various methods of potential attack (chemical, biological, radiological)…the prevailing view right now is that the greatest threat right now comes from some form of radiolgical attack, either a radiological dispersal device (RDD) or “Dirty Bomb,” which is merely conventional explosives combined with some low-grade medical or agricultural radiological waste, or one of the 80+ suitcase nukes “currently unaccounted for” from the former USSR, being properly shielded, brought into a major city and detonated fifty stories or so above the ground. The reason they’d want it detonated so far above ground is that they’d want the accompanying electromagnetic pulse (a pulse that will eradicate all radio communications fro 1st Responders, and neutralize most other electronic devices, including onboard car computers) creating a nightmare for emergency responders.

I’ve been hoping that a second major attack isn’t going to be what’s needed to make America wake up, but increasingly I’m beginning to feel that’s what it will take, which is akin to saying that all those who were killed on 9/11/01 died in vain.

Sad, but true.

Savage had to say it once himself. Check out the audio I captured in this post.

I saw most of Glenn Beck’s program, which seemed to borrow heavily from “Obsession: Islam’s Ware With the West.”

I was not familiar with Aslam Abdullah’s background and your source material makes his actual views that much more clear. Excellent work, on your part.

The problem that many Americans have is that they don’t see the actual scope and breadth of this threat. They dismiss pan-Islamicists as “cave dwellers” and “camel jockeys” because they don’t understand (1) how global this threat is and (2) how organized and well-financed it is.

Our government is even partly complicit in this, by its refusing to properly define the real enemy in this “War on Terror.” It is certainly NOT “fundamentalist Islam,” as Islam (unlike Christianity and Judaism) has not had any Reformation. It is not merely “radicalized Islam” either, as this implies a small minority of Muslims, when in fact, traditional Islam has had clashes all over the world, with virtually all the world’s other relgions – in the Phillipines they’ve clashed with Phillipino Catholics, in the Sudan they’ve attemtpted genocide on both the Christian and other non-Muslim peoples of the southern regions of Sudan, in Kashmir they clash with Hindus and in Kosovo, they initiated the first genocide in that region, against the Christian Croats.

NO! It is NOT “radicalized Islam” that is the scourge of the world today, but traditional “Sharia-adhering Islam” that is the problem. Sharia Law DOES rationalize the enslaving and slaughtering of non-Mulsims (“infidels”) and it does define and demand a second-class citizenship (called DHIMMITUDE) for all non-Muslims in predominantly Muslim lands, including crosses and stars of David posted over the shops of allChristians and Jews respectively, so that Muslims would know not to shop there.

It is not “fundamentalist” or “radicalized” Islam that is the threat, it is Sharia-based, or Sharia-adhering Islam that is incompatible with the West and now poses such a global threat. That seems to be a very difficult concept to get across to Westerners, but if we don’t wake up to it soon, we may wake up too late.