Enter Saudi petro-dollars

It looks like the Philipines are playing into the hands of the Saudis. Then, the bording provinces will be attacked, after all, there are some Muslims THERE and they deserve not to live under the rule of the kafirs. Right. It is all so predictable, yet Bush hasn't a clue. Hop back in bed with your boyfriend, Bush. All will be well in the morn. Just ask abdullah.

Short sighted fools.

Surely if these are allies of the West, the stupidity of this course can be made apparent to them. When one accepts money from the Princes of Darkness, they own you.

This really makes you wonder where the "intelligence" is in ASIO, CIA etc. No doubt they are all university trained in whatever - or is that 'brainwashed' up to their eye balls in PC crap.

I didn't see the earlier story about Philippino government provisions allowing Muslims in the South to draft their own constitution, develop their own legal and financial institutions, etc. This precedent will, of course, be seized upon by other Muslim populations living in SE Asia and mark the beginning of a long progressive decline into dhimmitude and territorial concessions for other governments in the region. Southern Thailand will be next.

Interesting that at the height of the cold war -- guided by the philosophy of George Kennan and wary of the domino theory -- the US would do anything, pay any price to contain Communism in SE Asia. Now, we are like a deer caught in the headlights as Islam advances in the Philippines, Thailand, Africa, and Europe. Indeed, we are actually encouraging the Muslim conquest of Europe by endorsing the ascension of Turkey into the EU.

Where are the great cold warriors -- the ideologues, the strategists, the generals -- to wake us from our slumber and mobilize our national will and resources against this current threat? A threat that is far more deeply entrenched historically, psychologically, demographically than was Communism.

I have no hope for us to get the guts to face this head on Now. Because befor long it will get really messy, and all of the disasters in the last few years combined will be but a drop in the bucket. All it takes for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.

Not the pointless goal of "independence from Middle Eastern oil," but the goal of working, with all othter Infidels, to drive down the value of the oil (and gas)that provides the wherewithal for the global Jihad -- those mosques, those madrasas, that machinery of war --should be the goal. It does not help matters if the United States ceases to buy a barrel of oil from any Muslim country if those countries are still selling their oil, on the world market, to others -- to China, or to Japan, or to the countries of Western Europe. It makes no difference where the revenues the Arab and Muslim states receive comes from, as long as it comes.

Everything possible, everything conceivable, has to be done to diminish, to use up, to take away wherever possible (in gigantic lawsuits, in seizure of Saudi assets as constituting the property of enemy aliens and an enemy government), the money that the Saudis and other Arabs so obviously have been using to fund the Jihad, even as they squander some in their decadent luxury (a decadence that needs to be publicized, and Western intelligence agencies can help make things hot for ruling families everywhere-- or accept a little baksheesh, running into the billions, not to publicize everything they know, or can find out, about the way in which members of the Arab ruling and thieving classes behave and live, which would not endear them to the dourer and more puritanical version of Muslims, of whom there are many, and they can be bad-tempered).

Figure out ways to get that money away from them. There is nothing they can do in return. We could seize every Saudi asset in the Western world, and what could they do? Cease to sell oil? Peg it at a price that will either make no economic sense for them, because it will only hasten a move away from oil, or in the alternative, will trigger seizure of the oilfields of Al-Hasa (the Shi'a-populated area in eastern Saudi Arabia) by the finally no-nonsense Americans and the rest of NATO, come to its senses, after too many fearful acts, about what Islam, and islamization, means for the people of Europe, and thus for the people of the entire West, and indeed, of the entire Dar al-Harb.

That's it. A simple goal.

Now figure out the thousand ways to achieve it. And stop worrying about "democracy" in Iraq, or for that matter, in malevolent Egypt, or in Lebanon or Syria. In both of the last two, American policy should concentrate on keeping those places safe for Christians. If that means encouraging Sunni-Shi'a internecine warfare in Lebanon, fine. If it means accepting the need to have the Alawite military caste kept in power, even if Assad-less, and no longer with, say, any of its warplanes (that should not be hard to arrange) so that it cannot project any power beyond its borders but can deal with the internal threats from the "real" Muslims -- well, so be it. A non-Alawite regime of the real Muslims would be, in Syria, even worse. But that doesn't mean putting up with assorted Assads, or with Alawites continuing to prove their "Muslim-ness" by serving as a willing conduit for Iranian forces supporting Shi'a Hezbollah, and by failing to do anything to allow the flow of Sunni Arabs, Al-Qaeda connection or not, into Iraq to help their fellow Sunnis. Both reflect the desire to deflect attention from the central fact of Alawite life: they are merely 12% of the population, their grip depends on constant force or the willingness to use force on the "real" Muslims within Syria, and they feel they must collaborate with outside Muslim powers in order to prevent serious threats to them within.

That calculation can change a little if the threat now comes from the Americans, who could overnight destroy whatever airforce or other major weaponry the Alawites possess -- leaving them with tanks, jeeps, and rifles to deal with their internal enemies, but nothing to threaten outside their own borders.

An idea whose time has come.

This infusion of money to Mindanao by the Saudis is not a positive development for the Philippines or for SE Asia. However, this could be the worst investment that the Saudis have ever made. Mindanao is corrupt for top to bottom. Many of those roads, bridges, mosques and Islamic schools will probably never be built, or if built, last a year or two. However, there will be a large increase in foreign bank accounts, originating from Mindanao.

There's little sense in one getting his/her panties in a bunch over this one. Sympathetic as I am to all societies faced with jihadist warfare as the Philippines is I may need to draw the line here since it looks to me like the Philippines is going to keep its head buried in the sand until the situation has reached the point at which the country completely collapses under Islamic warfare. (I have never been particularly fond of cowardice).

It's a sad situation. But the Filipinos are clearly asking for disaster--and are quite likely to get one, too. We can only hope they "get with the program over there"--but I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for it to happen at this point.

Isn't it amazing how fast Saudi oil money pours in to prop up a territory carved out and created by Islamic terrorists. If the Saudis were the great friends they claim to be, certainly they wouldn't insult us by giving instant aid, recognition, and legitimacy to the MILF.

It makes me wonder just how deeply the Jihad movement is embedded in the core of the Islamic hierarchy. Is Bin Laden really the the prime mover of the terrorist movement, or is it a secret council in Mecca? I would tend to believe the latter, using terrorist cells to promote its agenda, but publicly disclaiming any links to them. Seems to be working well.

I wonder if at least a few people in our government are award of their methods.....I sure hope so.