Whatever. That's the best you can come up with David? Thanks for not even coming close to answering a single question. As usual.
Conviction for what? Please guide me in your ways and while you're at it - how about sharing HOW you come up with your "pearls of wisdom".
How was Bush going to prevent the attacks overseas in Spain? As a fact the number of attacks in the West went down dramatically after the action in Iraq and in the US it went to zero. When Spain elected its socialist government it didn't help at all and Holland has been in all twisted since they allowed Hirsi to be run out of the country. One can make a sound argument that Bush's foriegn policy make the West and the US safer and that those who opposed it have had the hands full...especially France. Did you read the report on this about 3 months ago in Foreign Policy Magazine. They did a very thorough analysis that Obama better pay attention to. When dealing with Islamic fascists Force works. Diplomacy fails. Ruben
By that measure Israel has up until recently been on a losing course. The 2006 Lebanon fiasco was a prime example. When Israel has a hardliner, like Benjamin Netanyahu, the terrorists are largely prostrate. But when you have a pushover like Olmert fouling things up, you have huge military measures that result in nothing but a stalemate and swaps with Hizbollah. I hope that someone with intelligence and a strong background, like Tzipi Livni, will take the reigns of power there soon. I don't want to underestimate Obama until he has been in power for a year or so. Kennedy got off to a lousy start with the Bay of Pigs fiasco, then turned around 1.5 years later with the Cuban Missile Crisis and brought the Soviets to their knees.
Ruben if you took the time to actualy read my post I never said he should have prevented anything, what I asked was if David blamed him for the attacks as he clearly blames Obama for the latest outrage. Now as for France I dont suppose that you know they have had troops in Afghanistan for quite some time? Just because they did not want to get involved in Iraq dont make them bad you know, people here said the same about Canada yet they to are involved in Afghanistan! as are most European countries. The attacks in the USA did not go to zero there was the gunman in LA Airport which happend after the twin towers then there was the foiled plot on board a US aircraft.
And here is a list of plots the FBI claim to have stoped, most of them would have been on US soil if they had gone ahead. Richard Reid, December 2001 Jose Padilla, May 2002 Lackawanna Six, September 2002 Iyman Faris, May 2003 Virginia "Jihad" Network, June 2003 Dhiren Barot, August 2004 James Elshafay and Shahawar Matin Siraj, August 2004 Yassin Aref and Mohammed Hossain, August 2004 Umer Hayat and Hamid Hayat, June 2005 Levar Haley Washington, Gregory Vernon Patterson, Hammad Riaz Samana, and Kevin James, August 2005 Michael C. Reynolds, December 5, 2005 Mohammad Zaki Amawi, Marwan Othman El-Hindi, Zand Wassim Mazloum, February 2006 Syed Haris Ahmed and Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, April 2006 Narseal Batiste, Patrick Abraham, Stanley Grant Phanor, Naudimar Herrera, Burson Augustin, Lyglenson Lemorin, and Rotschild Augstine, June 2006 Assem Hammoud, July 2006 Liquid Explosives Plot, August 2006 Fort Dix Plot, May 2007 JFK Plot, June 2007
My fear is that we don't have a year or so for him to prove himself. The liberal left envisioned a new era of world peace & love when Obama got picked to be president but that obviously that isn't the case. Our enemies hate everything American and simply electing a pacifier like Obama won't change that (even though he folled you into believing it would), on the contrary, the enemy has become emboldened because they know Obama doesn't know how to respond & the fools that actually thought he would be a good leader will dally around while we are attacked. Biden & the Clintons knew (and proclaimed) Obama wasn't ready for the role...how did you guys miss it?? I'll take even one step further. With Obama being so clueless & with ego maniacs like Biden & the Clintons now having so much power, nothing will get accomplished. Biden & the Clintons will clash every step of the way & Obama won't be able to handle either one of them. You think simple core value belief questions were above his paygrade?? You ain't seen nuthin' yet.
Key word: "stopped" Listen carefully- they weren't able to pull them off. A group can plan anything they want, but if they have been weakened to the point they can't pull the plot off, what's the harm? Isn't that the idea? Man, D'ork, if I let you ramble enough you'll always prove my points.
I guess if you have some common sense, can learn from the past, are intuitive enough to connect the dots and don't fall for radical left wing endoctrination you have a headstart on the field here. Begin by asking the "reporter" questions: how, why, what & where . If the person you are listening to can't or won't answer those questions (think Obama), work through them for yourself. A couple of examples: Obama wants to negotiate with Iran? Why? Obama is going to lower taxes for 95% of Americans? How? "Above my pay grade" should be all you need to know.
You realy cant answer can you david once more resorting to name calling, So once again is President Bush responsible for the attacks under his watch? And please cut out the childish name calling if you are able, you complain enough when others do it to you.
David, you say more about yourself making such flatulent commentaries. You cannot even attempt to make a point without resorting to such nonsense. Most sensible conservatives realized that Bush was out of whack, and distanced themselves from him accordingly. But there are those that blindly follow their leaders into the cusps of Hades; Hitler, Stalin, Mao etc. You don't get it though, like your fearless leader, you are clueless to reality. Bush never saw things coming, he was just a lucky fool a lot of the time.
What are you KIDDING ME. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a complete failure and didn't bring anyone to their knees. It did bring the world about 15 seconds from Nuclear Armageddon's because of Kennedy's incompetence. Your remark about Israel is also wrong, but I don't have time now. I will put this in your ear though...I have no doubt that Obama will cause a major terrorist attack to happen in NYC, especially if Clinton is Sec of State. And frankly, it is very agitating to know that I'm being targeted with Nuclear weapons be Islamic fascists with an incoming President who is frankly an naive idiot foreign affairs. Memo to Obama - I don't want to be NUKED because of your ideological blunders. Ruben
Lets see now Russia removed the missiles from Cuban territory and that is classed as a failure? Sorry Ruben but what would you have called a victory? This helped bring about the downfall of Khrushchev Russia was made to look like it was retrreating and the American deal to remove obsolete missiles from Turkey was kept a secret.
I respectfully disagree, if anyone backed down and turned tail, it was the Soviets. In the eyes of the international scene they made a huge tactical f*** up with putting their ICBM's in Cuba. No one in the Politburo considered that the CIA would find out about it with the U2 overflights. If the U2's had overflown Cuba, and never found anything - the USA would have blundered - because one was brought down by a SAM. Of course the missiles were found, and were a direct and immediate escalation of the threat against the USA. Their removal, or alleged removal was a strategic and publicity victory for the USA. The removal of the Jupiter missiles from Turkey that D'Orc cites was part of the deal, a face saver for the Politburo to make a tit for tat exchange. The Jupiter missiles were short range missiles and were not nearly the threat to the USSR as the ICBM's the USSR parked in Cuba were. Would you care to elaborate when you have time? In my estimation Israel lost the 2006 war with Lebanon. Hizbollah managed to not only remain there, they inflicted enough losses to the Israelis and then... got their terrorists fools released in a swap. Where are the Israeli soldiers that were kidnapped and the impetus for the whole conflict at that time? Israel is better than that - they could have - and should have wiped those vermin off the face of the earth. As it is, the Hizbollah vermin were only emboldened by their "victory".
Nonsense seems to be the only language you understand, at least it's the one you communicate with in your postings. I'm just trying to relate to you in a manner you can understand & follow.
Because the US came from a position of strength, not some mamby pamby appeasement policy that the left endorses. See D'ork, the more you & ScottishMoaner type, the easier my points are to prove. I know you two advocate Obama sitting across the table from Iran, Venezuela, etc but that just makes the US appear weak.