tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post115468995031063123..comments2024-02-28T14:41:47.313-07:00Comments on Flares into Darkness: Olmert Speaks the Truthambisinistralhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03836786826294202405noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1154772050258545832006-08-05T04:00:00.000-06:002006-08-05T04:00:00.000-06:00gumshoe:I agree, God does not take it lightly. I a...gumshoe:<BR/><BR/>I agree, God does not take it lightly. I also think there is more to these things than we see at the time. For instance, where were all the other Shia during Sadr's parade? Maybe they are beginning to think that this is not what God wants.terryehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16609746018265953069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1154754547479262392006-08-04T23:09:00.000-06:002006-08-04T23:09:00.000-06:00to respond to terrye's comments to MHA - the range...to respond <BR/>to terrye's comments to MHA - <BR/><BR/>the range of responses to apocalyptic visions is likely to swing from resignation and despair,to swooning in false hope.<BR/><BR/>had you asked me several years ago,<BR/>i would have scoffed,<BR/>but my sense is G-d lives at a very deep level in us all.<BR/><BR/>He does not take the rantings <BR/>of an Ahmedinejad or Naslrallah lightly.<BR/><BR/>we have seen their kind before.<BR/>vividly.<BR/><BR/>has Israel threatened to <BR/>"wipe Iran from the map"?<BR/><BR/>no,of course not.<BR/><BR/>mature human beings don't <BR/>trifle with the miracle of Life.<BR/><BR/>for those who have no (surface) sense of feeling for such a thing<BR/>(a supreme being overseeing, <BR/>and understanding, the depravity of some of portions of mankind)<BR/>look in your own heart<BR/>and see if you don't comprehend such a thing.<BR/><BR/>it's not complicated.gumshoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10567181585153569751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1154726927961203522006-08-04T15:28:00.000-06:002006-08-04T15:28:00.000-06:00MHA:They also get the shit kicked out of them on a...MHA:<BR/><BR/>They also get the shit kicked out of them on a regular basis. Do you really think that most of the people of the region want to be sent into a mine field with a plastic key to Paradise in their back pockets? Do you think they want their cities to end up like Beirut and Fallujah and Baghdad? <BR/><BR/>You are becoming so negative I get the feeling you think we might as well just give up. Or that we have already.terryehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16609746018265953069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1154714259803631862006-08-04T11:57:00.000-06:002006-08-04T11:57:00.000-06:00Assuming jihad continues, the part of the West we ...Assuming jihad continues, the part of the West we lose may be a geographical area, places like Sweden perhaps, or it may be the regnant liberal philosophy - our universities may split apart or change into something new, for example - or some combination of both. But it is clear by now that some areas and social groups will stay out of the fight. And the rest will be transformed into something new. We just don't quite know what the new world will be like. But if jihad continues, we will know soon enough.Skookumchukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16069553196217619229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1154713117031185082006-08-04T11:38:00.000-06:002006-08-04T11:38:00.000-06:00MHA:...an ever-more cowardly Western news media, m...MHA:<BR/><BR/><I>...an ever-more cowardly Western news media, more and more turmoil and backbiting in the West.</I><BR/><BR/>True. And this has its obvious downside, as we have said here many times. But on the other hand, the turmoil and backbiting are the byproducts of attempts at coming to grips with something that Western society really doesn't want to deal with. It will take a tac nuke over a Western capital, biowar, or something similar to cleave the West into two groups: those who are culturally prepared to stand guard against Jihad for generations if need be and those who will quietly succumb. The West will survive. It just might not survive whole. Such is this new war. Losing a part of the West may be the price we have to pay to win.Skookumchukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16069553196217619229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16821859.post-1154710307967120132006-08-04T10:51:00.000-06:002006-08-04T10:51:00.000-06:00They have been going down the road with the mullah...They have been going down the road with the mullahs for 30 years. They know what they get: bigger territories, more Islamic fundamentalist states, an ever-more cowardly Western news media, more and more turmoil and backbiting in the West. Train them? They're trained already, but in the other direction.MeaninglessHotAirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11767916621253839341noreply@blogger.com