[lit-ideas] Re: How the West Could Lose
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 08:43:14 -0700
http://www.nypost.com/seven/02092007/postopinion/opedcolumnists/gen__petraeu
s_real_problem_opedcolumnists_amir_taheri.htm?page=3
Podhoretz quotes from this article in his World War IV, The Long Struggle
Against Islamofascism. The following seems applicable to your comments,
Walter:
"With a combination of intelligence, patience and determination, Petraeus
can win in Baghdad," Amir Taheri wrote in February 2007.
"The battleground where his chances do not appear as good is Washington. The
United States today has become home to a veritable industry of defeat -
producing books, TV documentaries, research papers, intelligence analyses
and feature movies destined for a growing market. Almost every day, some
article assuming that the United States has already been defeated in Iraq,
and recommend measures to deal with the consequences of defeat. And when the
United States does something, it does it Big: The defeat industry is
assuming a bewildering scale."
Lawrence
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: How the West Could Lose
Lawrence Helm wrote:
. . . . Was there a great enthusiastic fanatical increase in devotion to
the Communist Party in the period from 1956 to 1991, right before it
collapsed? I really don't think so.
Of course those under Soviet control had a quite attractive alternative to
communism, which clearly had an appeal: The West from 1956 to 1991 was a
shining beacon of freedom, rule of law, and success.
<>Another thing to consider is that the second generation Communists were
not as committed as the first generation. We are well into the second
generation of Jihadists and their fervor seems on the increase.
Perhaps it's because there is no longer any clear-cut superior alternative,
at least in the minds of the "followers?"
<>
Lit-Ideas Leftists make light of the Islamofascist threat. There are no
crocs in the rivers or alligators in the swamps and such people as Pipes and
Helm are alarmists who can't answer the silly obfuscatory quibbles of
Leftist avoidance. Well, that isn't true. All the facts point one way:
and that is the way that Leftists refuse to look.
The reason I can't even stand to listen to Bush's voice on the radio or TV
any more is not because I'm making light of possible threats, it's because
his policies have INCREASED these threats over what the might have been, had
we stayed the society I grew up in and still love.
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"Never attribute to malice that which can be
explained by incompetence and ignorance."
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John Wager john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx
Lisle, IL, USA
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