Comments on: Afghanistan: When Ralph Peters and Daniel Ellsberg Agree…

By: charlie finch

charlie finch — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:56:29 +0000

We have taken out half a dozen Al Qaeda leaders in the last month and our troop presence is relatively minimal. Also Ellsberg (whom I knew well back in 1972) has devolved into a crackpot in his dotage, doesn’t take 9/ll seriously like many on the left. The “answer” is for Obama to really take on Islam head-on, study its very theologies and openly ridicule people like the Iranian mullahs, the Wahabis, and the Taliban. This Star Trek prime directive approach doesn’t wash. Ban Amedinajad from the UN, put serious pressure of the Saudis and Mubarak. Invite some US mullahs to the White House and rip them a new one. Use intelligence and advanced weapons to decimate every Muslim ideologue. Take out the Iranian nukes and take out the Pakistani nukes.Then withdraw our troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. Radical Islam must be shamed into subservience.

By: Tcobb

Tcobb — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:03:11 +0000

The Taliban are evil terrorist-harboring woman and gay hating theocrats, but can we fight evil anywhere and everywhere?
No sir, we can’t fight evil anywhere and everywhere, but a lot of people seem to take the position that if we can’t fight it anywhere and everywhere, we shouldn’t fight it at all. And I doubt that such positions are honest. Evil doesn’t want to be fought–it just wants to persuade you, and mocks you when you resist.

By: charlie finch

charlie finch — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:54:59 +0000

Kabul, Islamabad, Swat Valley, Kashmir are four ducks in a row. There is no answer.

By: Class Clown

Class Clown — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 10:08:50 +0000

Ralph Peters is one writer who should always, always, be listened to.