They were not anywhere near the level of importance as the Speaker. And yes, I will say it again - the GOP’ers who went are just as guilty. However, they were not in any position to dictate or create policy the same way the Speaker would. And that is what is most troublesome.

Regards,
Peter H.

Nancy Pelosi did both. She made it clear that she and the Democrat Party support both Assad’s despotic government and the terrorist groups with which he’s allied himself.

Nancy Pelosi is used to manipulating people like you, rightiswrong; she knows that puppets like you will gladly support anything she does, even as she allies the Democrat Party with terrorist groups. It’s all about her getting power and fulfilling her hate agenda.

The funny part was watching her pet Lantos at work — the token Jew kissing the feet of the most anti-Semitic groups and governments around, showing the world that Democrat Jews support organizations that advocate genocide of Jews.

Or does your blindhatred for Isreal and Bush trump your ability to read?

One leader. One voice. One strategy. Scoop Jackson, the last reasonable Democrat to live, said “Like with foreign policy, there should be no politics in national security.”

Sen Jackson was the last Democrat to be right about two things… but this century is young and we still MIGHT have a Democrat leader correct about something in this century.

RIW, you couldn’t be more wrong about something so serious.

When the jihad comes, which side will you be on? Think about it.

Regards,
Peter H.

And RIW, if you could perhaps post something with a hint of substance rather than drive-by accusations, maybe we’d pay more attention to you. But I’m not holding my breath.

CHECKMATE. (Copyright 2007 by Peter Huges. All rights reserved.)

Regards,
Peter H.

You should have capitalized checkmate .

checkmate.

Ralph Peters, writing in the New York Post, contends that the Islamization of Europe is a fantasy that will not occur because the Europeans will undoubtedly rouse themselves and resist what many analysts, including Bernard Lewis and Bat Yor, argue is a virtual fait accompli.

What Peters has suggested is that at some point people will fight to retain their democratic values against the inroads of Sharia. But suppose the will to resist has been destroyed. Suppose as well that Europe suffers from psychological fatigue. Suppose it cannot rouse itself from acquiesce.

Job Cohen, the mayor of Amsterdam and one of the mainstays of the Dutch nation, demands that one accept “the conscious discrimination of women by certain groups of orthodox Muslims” since Holland needs a “new glue” to hold society together. In the name of social cohesion, the Dutch are invited to approve a practice most consider execrable.

Reading the tea leaves of demography that infer the Islamic population is growing at a rate double that of native Europeans, many Europeans have decided to leave the continent. The number of emigrants leaving Germany and the Netherlands has surpassed the number of immigrants moving in. Today, Mohammed is the most popular name for new-born boys in Brussels, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and several other major European cities.

So deep goes the sentiment of preemptive surrender that German author Henryk Broder tells of a German woman who said sometimes it is better to let yourself be raped than to risk serious injury resisting. Here in unalloyed form is the metaphor for Europe.

Paul Belien, a journalist in Belgium, reports that many Europeans have not learned how to fight for their freedom. A whole generation merely took it for granted. It is a generation that is good at enjoying its freedom, but ignorant about its defense. In a sense rarely acknowledged, these people have already submitted to the dictates of Islam.

Belien notes that those unwilling to fight hate those who do resist. As a consequence, America becomes a symbol for resistance to Islam, the bastion of resisters and the catalyst for anti-Americanism. This is a situation analogous to better red than dead, except now it is better green than dead.

Needless to say, war is horrendous. Yet there are conditions worse than war. When moral sentiment decays and when people will not defend their own interests, the soul of mankind erodes.

At the moment, Europe is at the precipice. A philosophical flirtation with relativism and nihilism has made Europe vulnerable to the ideology of jihadism. If there aren’t core values worthy of a defense, then there isn’t any reason for new immigrants to embrace them. If democracy, the rule of law and human rights haven’t any specific quality that make them superior to Sharia, there is no need to oppose the assault by the instructors of hate and theocratic dictatorship.

The aggressive secularization in Europe, expunging Christian morality from law and the new continental constitution, goes hand and glove with the tacit acceptance of Islamic law. A vacuum has been created in Europe and it is being filled by an ideology and religion that uses Europe’s liberal views to promote an illiberal and intolerant belief system.

It is instructive that if Europe wants to inject any life into this continental corpse, it hasn’t any choice but to follow the lead of its avowed target—the United States. The hopes and fears of the United States regarding Islam will either be the hopes and fears of Europe or we will see in our lifetime a Europe Islamized and returned to the dark ages.

- Herbert London is president of the Hudson Institute, professor emeritus of New York University and a member of the editorial advisory board at Insight on the News. He is the author of Decade of Denial (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2001). Mr. London maintains a Web site, http://www.herblondon.org.

American traitors are the keystone to Jihadi success.

Nope.

You’re the one shouting about how wonderful it was that Pelosi supports and gives her full cooperation to Assad, Hizbollah, and Hamas, their plans for Jewish genocide, and their constant anti-Jewish propaganda, like the lovely stories they were telling during her visit about how Jews kill Christian and Arab children to get their blood to make the Passover matzohs.

Does Al Qaeda want an end to hostilities, dialogue and a peaceful resolution to anything? No. They want war, escalation, the rhetoric to ramp up, fear to run wild, and paranoia to envelop everything we do.

Of course.

But that is based on their belief that Americans are so terrified of war that we’ll do anything to get “peace”.

The reason al-Qaeda is so desperately manipulating Democrats like you to get us out of Iraq is this, keogh; under the previous Democrat administration and mentality, which refused military action and believed in “dialogue” with radical terrorist groups, they could kill hundreds to thousands of people with just a few jihadists and a couple thousand dollars worth of explosives/guns/etc. — and in the process get whatever they wanted.

Now, under an administration that IS willing to fight and WILL use our military against them, killing 3,000 Americans in Iraq has cost them upwards of 50,000 jihadists — and an immense sum of money, weapons, and so forth — and has cut off their access to money, supplies, communications, and free movement worldwide, to blow up whatever they want with impunity and have the worst consequences being a cruise missile attack on a deserted camp or an aspirin factory.

Which do you think they prefer?

What would your war stragety be?

This is also known as the Bush WOT strategy which has become is a pleasant gift, wrapped in a pretty box and delivered to Bin Laden’s cave door.

According to the Kuwaiti daily Al Seyassah, quoting Western intelligence sources:
Shiites militants arrested in Iraq acknowledged that chlorine-laden weapons had been delivered to them by Iranian Revolutionary Guards, very present within the militia of Moqtada Sadr in the suburbs of Sadr City. But other more worrying testimonies point out that similar weapons were delivered to Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza and the West Bank to be used against Israel in the event of a military strike against Iran

That’s not all: for the past 2 months, the deliveries of mid and long range missiles (between 50 and 250 km) to Hezbollah has accelerated.
These weapons are intended to be equipped with chemical warheads provided by Iran (this is currently experimented in Iraq in low dose) and bacteriological warheads provided by Syria.
This armament is a replacement to Iranian continental missiles that the Israeli anti-missile batteries are likely to neutralize