It's just too depressing to contemplate. I'm sorry, but these people are so backwards and benighted they need another 300 years of cultural evolution just to reach the openness, freedom, and intellectual foment of the Inquisition.

And if I'm down on Islam, well, I give up. We can root for victory all we like in Iraq. Doesn't change the fact that half of Pakistan supports Al Qaeda, or that one of the Bali bombers gets a hero's reception after being released from prison (after a couple of years!) in Indonesia.

It's about time to stop coddling Muslims and shame them into giving up stone-age savagery.

"Respect" is lethal, when you're showing "respect" for backwardness, superstition, totalitarianism, and inhumanity. We don't show "respect" for the "diverse belief systems" of the Ku Klux Klan.

I don't get this. Many Muslims support the attacks of 9/11; support bin Ladin, who admitted planning the attacks; but then deny that Muslims had anything to do with 9/11. What kind of bizarre mind-fuck have these people imposed on themselves?

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Lovely.

And CAIR has predictably begun screaming about "backlash."

Hmmm... The way I see it, there are two ways to decrease anti-Muslim "backlash:"

1) The US Government and media can increase efforts to promote "understanding" of Islam and tell us, for the bazillionth time, that Arabs invented algebra.

or

2) Muslims can stop plotting to murder people, and CAIR can stop encouraging them to do so, and stop employing or associating itself with terrorist-connected murder-priests.

Maybe it's just me, but I'm leaning towards #2 as being more effective.

LGF also notes the Kos talking points -- which he now calls the "Kos Koordinating Kommittee" -- and finds them "weak."

Goldstein has a wide-ranging post on the bust as well as the NYT's exposure of yet another legal intlligence program. He finds "jreid" making this astute commentary on her blog:

Here we go. The FBI blow-torch raid and arrests of the Karate Seven down here in South “Flaw-duh” has launched the right wing crazy boat online.

[....] Guys. Take a deep breath. Liberty City is not Peshwar. It’s the hood, man. These are probably some militant brothas working out and doing marshal arts and fancying themseelves revolutionaries. The idea that they had a serious plot going, or that they had any conceivable ties—familial or otherwise—to actual terrorists, is laughable. Prediction: this will go the way of the dirty bomber and the two yokels who were supposed to blow up electrical transformers in South Florida but wound up trying to buy a couple of AK-47s with a bad credit card.

I do so love it when white liberal chicks talk "street." It gives their words such authenticity and authority.

"Flaw-duh." "Bruthas."

No wonder the MSM, and 90% of the country, looks down on blogs. I read crap like that and I'm ashamed.

Goldstein notes the passive-aggressive stealth racism in "jreid's" post, the apparent assumption that blacks don't have the "necessities" to accomplish anything more grandiose than street-level crime.

Correction: I meant to use the word "necessities" rather than "requirements" -- Al Campanis' reason why there weren't more black managers in baseball. Thanks to TaterCon for the correction.

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He's convinced many Democrats to switch affiliation to independent to vote for him, but it may not be enough.

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Good Krauthammer piece on the only country in the world real Americans would feel comfortable moving to, if we had to:

It is surely the only place where you hear officials speaking plainly in defense of action. What other foreign minister but Australia's would see through "multilateralism,'' the fetish of every sniveling foreign policy grub from the Quai d'Orsay to Foggy Bottom, calling it correctly "a synonym for an ineffective and unfocused policy involving internationalism of the lowest common denominator''?

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That bravery breeds affection in America for another reason as well. Australia is the only country that has fought with the United States in every one of its major conflicts since 1914, the good and the bad, the winning and the losing.

Why? Because Australia's geographic and historical isolation has bred a wisdom about the structure of peace -- a wisdom that eludes most other countries. Australia has no illusions about the "international community'' and its feckless institutions. An island of tranquility in a roiling region, Australia understands that peace and prosperity do not come with the air we breathe, but are maintained by power -- once the power of the British Empire, now the power of the United States.

Australia joined the faraway wars of early-20th-century Europe not out of imperial nostalgia, but out of a deep understanding that its fate and the fate of liberty were intimately bound with that of the British Empire as principal underwriter of the international system. Today the underwriter is America, and Australia understands that an American retreat or defeat -- a chastening consummation devoutly, if secretly, wished by many a Western ally -- would be catastrophic for Australia and for the world.

When Australian ambassadors in Washington express support for the U.S., it is heartfelt and unalloyed, never the "yes, but'' of the other allies, perfunctory support followed by a list of complaints, slights and sage finger-wagging. Australia understands America's role and is sympathetic to its predicament as reluctant hegemon. That understanding has led it to share foxholes with Americans from Korea to Kabul. They fought with us at Tet and now in Baghdad. Not every engagement has ended well. But every one was strenuous, and many quite friendless. Which is why America has such affection for a country whose prime minister said after 9/11, "This is no time to be an 80 percent ally,'' and actually meant it.

Never been there, but would love to go. There was a Dinner For Five where Puerto Rican tough-guy actor Luis Guzman, I think, was talking about a shoot in Australia. He said the only time he'd ever cried when he was leaving someplace was when he was leaving Australia-- that's how much he loved it. That, despite an encounter with one of Australia's famously lethal snakes in his trailer.

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It's official US policy that we don't use ethinicity or religion as a factor in deciding who to screen at airports. So Bush is as responsible for this stupidity as Minetta.

Still, there is a wink-wink "policy" and then there is an actual policy. Minetta was a strong believer in the latter. Let's hope his replacement is more of the "wink-wink" school.

I question the timing. You're telling me the the only Democrat in Bush's cabinet just "resigns" the moment we're about to shut down Gitmo?

Don't believe me? Public disapproval of Gitmo has reached a critical point, as evidenced by this huge protest against it.

Thanks to Instapundit, who told me to link this during a combination strategy discussion/straight-but-curious flirt chat.

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Not to be snarky, but it does seem as if Bush's plan is working. For whatever reason, more intelligence is coming into Iraqi Government/US military hands more quickly.

It could be that the Sunni insurgents have decided to sell out Al Qaeda in exchange for peace, and a piece of the oil.

Also Friday, the U.S. military announced that American-led coalition forces captured a senior member of al Qaeda in Iraq in the Baquba area.

The military didn't identify the man who was captured Monday, days after another senior member of the network -- Mansur Sulayman Mansur Khalif, also known as Sheikh Mansur -- was killed in a coalition airstrike.

The suspect, detained with three other suspected terrorists, reportedly is "a senior al Qaeda cell leader throughout central Iraq, north of Baghdad," a military statement said.

"He is known to be involved in facilitating foreign terrorists throughout central Iraq, and is suspected of having ties to previous attacks on coalition and Iraqi forces."

Another bomb went off, of course. Killing nine, wounding 15, three critically.

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Knock on door announces reptillian visitor. Whether or not the reptile was a Jewish vampire-alien is unknown.

Okay, I'm convinced. I need an f'n' gun.

Thanks to DDG.

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I got that headline from Daily Kos. They claim that's the MSNBC headline, and then snark, "Gee, I don't remember the headline 'White Chirstian Bomb Plot In Oklahoma City.'" Trouble is, that's not the MSNBC headline; the MSNBC headline is FBI Arrests 7 In Alleged Terror Plot.

I don't notice the words "black" or "Muslim" there.

But I like the Daily Kos' own racist, anti-Muslim headline so much I'll adopt it myself.

In any event, as usual, the vicious animals plotting to kill us were, shockingly enough, adherents of the increasingly-inappropriately-named Religion of Peace. And, as usual, it took government officials, and the media, hours and hours to acknowlege this.

Because we're so anti-Muslim, see. See, Muslims are forever plotting to kill us, but it's non-Muslims everyone has to be afraid of. We're some kind of kill-crazy maniacs or something.

Anyway, Allah runs down the coverage, which is fun to run down in real time, as he took it off his TV screens.

You will not be surprised that the "timing" of these "arrests" of "terrorists" is being "questioned."

Someone at DU writes that it's suspicious these busts occur just as we were about to close down Guantanamo Bay. And now Bush, the fictitious "Terror Warrior," has the excuse he needs to keep Gitmo open.

Really? We were just about to close Gitmo down?

Gee, the things you discover in crazyland.

Oh, and DU also reports this is just a scheme to keep the black man down from voting in November. Apparently our new way of disenfranchising the black man will be to arrest five or six blacks a week on terrorist charges and imprison them for life, thus denying them the right to vote.

But of course that's silly. No one would ever involve himself in an absurd scheme.

Not when we've already got Diebold. Shit, you can zap entire black neighborhoods in like two seconds with Diebold.

El Rukns: Dave wonders if these Religion of Peace-niks are in any way affliated with, or a successor group to, the El Rukn gang. Which, he reminds us, was a Chicago based gang of African-American Adherents of the Religion of Peace who were busted in 1986 for taking money from Qaddafi to conduct terrorism on US soil.

The Religion of Peace

The one religion where you can cut off your daughter's clit, murder your sister for shaming the family by being raped by your uncle, kill homosexuals by pushing stone walls over them, enforce totalitarian stone-age sexual mores, and kill thousands upon thousands of innocent civilians, and liberals will actually applaud you for it.

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Bat-devouring centipedes!

As in, centipedes devouring bats. Gruesome.

Bat. Devouring. Centipedes.

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Obviously the man's a fool. Michael Moore is a morbidly obsese bitch.

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