johnny9fingers | (no subject)

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11463544

You know, it sometimes seems that Al-Qaeda and other Islamic militants really want to precipitate a complete war of cultures.

Ramp it up a bit more....and watch retaliatory pogroms in Western countries, why don't you? A total war with Islam doesn't bear thinking about, but just in case it seems some folk think that the Western powers are complete namby-pambies, this piece of scary lunacy was posted on my friends page by

jk_fabiani

"1339. I Don't Want to Be a Soldier (Traditional English)" (Watch on YouTube)

Bah. Stupid is as stupid does. We can barely keep our lunatics from running the asylum and the Islamic lunatics keep pushing with outrage after outrage. Just think what will happen when Sarah Palin is President? I mean, give the US a reason to elect her, then give her an excuse to go over the top: go on, why don't you?

I despair of humans of all kinds sometimes. So little thought, so many grievances.

Threaded | Flat

Palin will be defeated in the primaries. She keeps repeating the memes of the 2008 election when the 2012 election will be an entirely different animal, so to speak. Barack Obama's solidly ended the Presidency as a white man only thing. That means we may well see Bobby Jindal come out of nowhere and beat Palin, though my expectation is that it'd be either Huckabee or Romney.

What people also ignore is that the Islamists have not a snowball's chance in hell of triggering something like this. Saddam al-Majid was hardly popular, but the Dawa, a Khomeinist-style terrorist group (that now actually govern the place thanks to my country's idiotic invasion) could not depose that regime on their own. That took the US invasion after eight years of ruinous war with Iran, the first war with the USA and several years of bombing prior to the war.

By contrast the Soviet Union and the older communist regimes were/are (North Korea) threats on a much bigger scale than the Central Asian version of the Hutaree is.