I'm really getting sick of everyone catering to Muslims as to not step on any eggshells. It's almost like we're playing into their whole plan. First we cater to their demands and whatever they say because people fear them. We are living in a world of fear and for no reason. The news makes us scared of everything going on around us. Headlines about how global warming is going to kill us all (and how it was going to cause this summer to be the worse hurricane season on record ... Ernesto was a light breeze with some drizzling), how terrorist are going to kill us if we use our right to freedom of speech and press, how Charlie Sheen is to become the highest paid sitcom star, and the list of media inspired fear goes on and on.
I have no idea why these radical Muslims believe that they are so superior. What major contributions to society have we seen out of the middle east? Why is it that if they're so superior that they are decades behind in technology? What art have they contributed? I've never heard of a great middle eastern composer, play write, painter, sculpter, musician, etc. They say that the middle east is the cradle of civilization, well its about time to grow up and get out of the play pen. Kind of reminds me a little about when Tipper Gore tried to censor music and Dee Schneider, Krist Novoselic, John Denver and Frank Zappa made her look like a complete idiot. Art can win and we underestimate what kind of new wave in the arts may spring from these times. I'm just glad that here in America we have the 2nd Amendment (The right to keep and bear arms) incase the paint brush fails.

FYI weekapaug05, Finland, with a population of 5.2 million people, has a higher GDP than all the Arab Muslim countries in the mid-east combined.
Q: "I have no idea why these radical Muslims believe that they are so superior"
A: Because their mullahs tell them so. These are holy men and they wouldn't lie?
Q: Why is it that if they're so superior that they are decades behind in technology?
A: You think riding a camel is easy? You can get seasick from that
Q:What art have they contributed?
A: Flying carpets and Ali Baba. Seriously, at one time many years ago they were one of the world's foremost contributors to fine art. It was only their music, then and now, that escaped notice in the western world. That is because of the frequent use of quarter notes that sounds strange to the western ear.
"They say that the middle east is the cradle of civilization, well its about time to grow up and get out of the play pen."
GREAT LINE!

They do design and make wonderful carpets.

The only way to resolve the problem is to hit them harder than they hit us. It is the only thing they understand. Most of the Muslim people are just as fearful as Americans. The radicals have hijacked them and the mass population fears retribution if they do not go along.

Think back when President Bush #1 was president. In the Operation Desert Storm the American soldiers hit them hard through air strikes. When the soldiers marched in the Iraqi soldiers willingly laid down their weapons. Why? Because at the moment of the American invasion they feared America more than Saddam Hussein. Then American politics got involved and we began to waffle showing extreme signs of weakness.

Today what we are seeing is that the extremists do not fear us because we will not do what needs to be done.

This seems a little off the wall and extreme and would drive the liberals absolutely nits but if they kill one American then we should kill 5 extremists. Always with every attack we need to hit them harder than they hit us. It is the only thing the extremists understand. The rest of what the general population do is mob and survivalist mentality.

I understand about not stooping to that level but I also understand that you have to do something that speaks to the extremists on their level. They operate on the eye for eye, tooth for tooth level.

They submit to those whose strength overpowers theirs and allows them to live. This is why Saddam Hussein was able to rule over them.

In June, 1994 I was sitting at a motel in Tiberias, Israel talking with several devout Palestinian Muslims. It was early evening and you could hear distant mortar fire and see the accompanying flashes to the North in Lebanon. A couple of days prior to that evening we were in Jericho on the day before Israel gave that city and area back to the Palestinians.

The topic that evening was about Yasser Arafat and Saddam Hussein. They were praising Mr. Hussein and cursing Mr. Arafat. I asked them why they were responding in this manner. I was told that Mr. Hussein was a great leader and Mr. Arafat was nothing more than a puppet to the American Government, which surprised me since he didn’t have favor with anyone in Washington D.C.

At some point I asked a question and the answer completely changed my outlook about Islam. My question was, “Why do you praise Saddam Hussein? If he could, he would kill everyone in Israel including you, your wife, and your children in order to kill all of the Jews.” He looked me dead in the eye in a way that shook me to the bone, it absolutely un-nerved me, and said, “If it would kill all of the Jews and end their occupation of our land it would be worth the loss of my family.”

The western civilization doesn’t even begin to understand that kind of thinking anymore. We have been away from this kind of barbaric behavior for too long. They still operate with that kind of mentality over there. Why else would they behead innocent civilians on television? They do it to instill fear and gain power over us and they are doing a very good job of it. Look at the infighting in our nation over this issue.

They have not committed a terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11; they do not have to. Politically we are imploding as a result of it. George W. Bush and the soldiers are doing a great thing in Iraq but we are losing the mind war in America.

So the question is: If attacking them hard in a five for one kill is stooping too low, then what method do we used to bring this war to an end? Reasoning, diplomacy and political correctness has never worked and for the foreseeable future will not work. If they only understand power and fear, the only way to overcome their attacks is through power and fear.

g_dog_blog we are WAY over that 5 to 1 ratio now.

Of course the major problem is we don't know if they are terrorist or not. Mr Bush admits to probably 60,000 civilian Iraqi's killed and if you believe figures that come from others that figure is closer to a 100,000.

So as you can see we are well above your 5 to 1 ratio but what part of that 60 or 100,000 were innocent men, women and children that never had a terroristic thought in their head????????

mgroothand, I understand your point and the Biblical concept of eye for eye. The 5 to 1 ratio is more of a concept rather that a numbers idea. I could have used 10 to 1 or even 20 to 1 but the concept of striking back with an overwhelming and devastating force was what I was trying to communicate.

Look at what we know:

1. Most all-Muslim countries in the Middle East are ruled with terror. Governments are taken over by force and ruled by dictators and punishment for rebellion is calculated, severe, public, and swift.
2. Humiliation is not an excellent tool when the opposition is a master at it. Look at the events that took place where soldiers sexually abused Muslim terrorists on film and the reports of the Koran being flushed down the toilet. (I do not in anyway endorsed the events that happened.) The Islamofascists made some noise about it but nothing happened. There was no retaliation. Humiliation would never work anyway because there are too many liberals in Washington D.C. that would … well let’s just say that the battle within America would intensify to catastrophic proportions.

The major concern I have today is the bickering and fighting within the United States. The greatest threat we face today is the division in our nation. I have been accused in these blogs of being an ignorant redneck and a blind follower of the President. They don’t even have a clue. That is what people do when they cannot deliver a cohesive argument for their position. The Islamofascists love what is happening in America. It is better than what they did to the World Trade Center on 9/11.

Division will be the ruin of this nation. “United we stand, divided we fall,” isn’t just a great hook in a song but a concept of guaranteed victory. Unfortunately the Democrat Party leaders know this to be true but are so caught up in trying to regain control of our government that they are willing to sell the souls of every American to get it back. I suppose they think they can regain and overcome our current situation once they get Washington D.C. back. I think it will be too late. I hope not but am skeptical at this point.

The Democrat Party leaders also understand a mob mentality through attacking the President and have employed it quite well.

I could go on but the two ingredients we need to bring this war to a swift resolution is unity and beating them unmercifully. Will innocent women and children die in the process? Yes, unfortunately there will be some, they are dying now in car bombings, but if we don’t not come into unity the women and children that will be dying in the future will be ours.

We do not need to wait for the elections to bring unity it needs to happen now much like it did right after 9/11.