President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan today called upon the Muslim World to boycott Denmark because of the Mohammed cartoons.
President Omar al-Bashir said Wednesday that he would bar Danes from Sudan and told tens of thousands of people at a government-b…

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Yes, China is definitely a “threat”.

Yes, Mao’s Little Red Book of 35 years ago may have called the US an enemy.

But no, China is not treating the US as an enemy today. Mao’s teachings get mostly lip service — but of course lgm hasn’t noticed.

If the Chinese were to destroy us they themselves know it would make worthless more than a TRILLION dollars in US$ reserves they hold, plus immiserate their people (who would no longer have a huge market for their products.)

Factors like those tend to put a damper on bellicosity, rhetoric aside.

Meanwhile Iran threatens Israel with nuclear annihilation about once a week, opening saying that when they get a nuke they will use it. Iran arms Hezbollah, Hezbollah makes war against Israel and the West. Where it can, Iran acts on its rhetoric.

Practitioners of Realpolitik, or irrational whackjob Islamists who see in Armaggeon with Iraq the fulfilment of Koranic teachings, and the return of the 12th Iman — which would you fear most?

As for Republicans balancing the budget: they certainly didn’t do a good job of that when they held power (war spending saw to that), but since the Congress is in the hands of the Dems, the point is…pointless.

Like everything lgm writes.

Here I go to the toy store!

the rags that populate the bottom of hamster cages.

Sacré bleu!

My hamsters wouldn’t be caught dead defecating on such inferior paper. Newspapers are for birds

Now you have a well put statement, granite.

Everything Isreal has done since April 16, 1948 has been to stop Islamists from killing them. Yes, not just the “fundamentalists,” as it was entire nations attacking Isreal. The aggressors only turned to terrorists as proxies since they discovered conventional war wasn’t going to defeat the Jews. (Isreal was Re-instituted April 15, 1948.It was ONE day after that that the rest of the Middle East attacked them.)

And Christian Soldier, they’re “LEGO toys.” Lego gets all bent out of shape when we call them “LEGOS.” Yes, I’ve called them that since I was a kid, too.

“I’m not Jewish or Muslim, not middle-eastern, and let’s face it – a tiny sliver of land on the Mediterranean coast is not worth my bother.”

I also am neither Jewish, Muslim, nor Middle Eastern.

However, the Muslims must be stopped at that tiny sliver of land, which is the only – only – outpost of Western civilization in the Middle East. By “coincidence”, it also happens to be the only non-Muslim country in the Middle East, and the most dependable, perhaps only, friend the U.S. has in that region of the world.

If the Muslims rolled over and destroyed Israel: besides being a stain on, and a black mark against Western civilization for centuries, maybe for millennia; that would be an incalculable morale booster for the Muslim barbarians, who would feel even MORE inclined to continue to attack us…indeed, they would more than likely increase and intensify their attacks against us.

“Let ‘em duke it out without bothering the rest of us.”

Perhaps if the elite in our country, and in the rest of the West understood that Israel is not the aggressor, and would just let them seriously and vigorously defend themselves (and the Israeli elite would wake up to the necessity of doing just that); then, perhaps the barbarians finally, after getting seriously smacked around and mauled, would realize that they were not going to be able to “push Israel into the sea.”

“The Islamic world has launched. They have been attacking us since 1979. They have been attacking Isreal since 1948. They attacked Middle Eastern Christian over 1000 years ago. They haven’t ever really stopped.

I’d say anyone that thinks they are not a threat is either in denial, delusional, or perhaps just plain stupid.”

Exactly!
Well said.

I also wouldn’t be surpirsed, however, if you were right about it. But the seminal event appeared to be when Slick changed the oversight of such transfers from the State Dept. to Commerce. One might say that “started it all,” assuming it is still going on.

As for Taiwan, China has indeed been threatening for some time, but remember the main point of discussion: The Islamic world has launched. They have been attacking us since 1979. They have been attacking Isreal since 1948. They attacked Middle Eastern Christian over 1000 years ago. They haven’t ever really stopped.

I’d say anyone that thinks they are not a threat is either in denial, delusional, or perhaps just plain stupid.

On February 18th, 2008 at 3:55 pm, lgm said:

Fox didn’t cover it.

Clever. I like it.

you did not read the papers last week

Counter:

Which fish wrapper would be a reliable source of info???