Nou Shalhoub ..... any relation to Tony Shalhoub?

Posted by: dennisw at July 29, 2006 8:32 AM

This is not directly on point, but I needed to post it somewhere. Here is a link to one of the best articles I have seen on the double-standard applied to Israel. It is written by the historian Victor Davis Hanson, whose book on the Peloponnesian War entitled "A War Like No Other" is a great read. The following article is a great read, too.

http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson072806.html

Posted by: Howard, Fine & Howard at July 29, 2006 10:10 AM

Bush to Repeat Mistakes of the Past?

Posted by: Lumpy at July 29, 2006 10:48 AM

Victor Davis Hanson has the right dislikes. His attacks on the American -- or at least the California -- university system are a pleasure to read. His hatred for those who are unfair to Israel, his general take on the universe endear him to all sensible people. But what is not endearing, what has been so disturbing and even maddening for the past 2 1/2 years, is his refusal, even though in his writing he has made much of the influence of "culture" in explaining the success of Western man as warrior (those free Greeks, those serried ranks of Persian myrmidons), to contemplate what the belief-system of Islam is all about, and how Islam so completely molds both its adherents, and the societies in which even those who are not full believers grow up, and drink in the atmospherics of Islam.
Had he done so, he would long ago have realized that in March or April, 2004, when I began setting out exactly what would happen and why it was inevitable (those sectarian and ethnic divisions that cannot be healed, that neither Sunni Arabs nor Shi'a Arabs will permit to be healed though both will play for Amercian protection, American military equipment and training, American fighting against their enemies under the guise of "protecting democracy") and furthermore, why it was in American and Infidel interests for these sectarian and ethnic divisions to be encouraged -- the first being a kind of Iran-Iraq War (which should have gone on forever), with repercussions in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Pakistan, Lebanon, and the second with repercussions in Algeria and elsewhere in the Berber-haunted Maghreb, and everywhree that non-Arab Muslims have been persecuted, or treated with contumely, or resented the linguistic and cultural imperialism of the Arabs, of which Islam is the obvious vehicle.

His refusal to see this, his ignoring of what his associate Bruce Thornton was writing in those "Private Papers," and his failure to see that the war in Iraq had been won, as far as Infidel interests were concerned, just as soon as Saddam Hussein was captured, his sons killed, the game of Fifty-Two Pickup successfully completed, and -- this is the main point -- the country scoured for weapons of mass destruction and for projects intended to produce such weapons, in the first case an effort of search and destroy, in the second case an effort of search and disrupt for a very long time.

All that was accomplished within the first year, and everything was then set inevitably in motion. It was time then to leave.

This is still somethiing Hanson has trouble with. But he's much more intelligent than the smug Kristols and all those others who will keep prating about what "needs to be done" in Iraq, and has no need to obstinately defend the Administration for its folly, its lack of low or high cunning, its miscomprehension that this "war on terror" stuff will not do, and the "war of self-defense against the Jihad" (Jihad standing in, synecdochically, for "Islam").

Incidentally, I realize now that setting all this out, declaring victory, as has been done here repeatedly since late March or early April, 2004, should entitle the author of that victory-declaraation, trying to halt the squandering of taxpayers' money (and the lives of soldiers), should be worth something, some kind of whistle--blower's award. A third of the avoidable hundreds of billions would seem like a lot. A million would do just fine.

Meanwhile, let's hope that Hanson, given his many admirers, begins to see the plans for Iraq as the hopeless -- and self-defeating from the Infidel point of view -- nonsense it is. It would help push the Pentagon and Bush and Rice into recognizing reality.

Posted by: Hugh at July 29, 2006 10:57 AM

I'll bet the obese Nasrallah is shaking in his dress. Hey! Nasrallah....they're looking for YOUUUUUU!

Posted by: freewoman at July 29, 2006 11:39 AM

Maybe this could be a prelude to a Hugh Fitzgerald and VDH discussion piece for Jihadwatch?

Now that's something to hope for.

Posted by: treehugger at July 29, 2006 12:05 PM

Keep going.

Posted by: FreeSpeech at July 29, 2006 3:17 PM

Yes, we are with you Israel. Go get those murderers! Praying for the peace of Jerusalem.

Posted by: Stand fast in the liberty at July 29, 2006 4:04 PM

It is an incontestable fact that all terrorist leaders are gay. How else to explain their obvious lack of interest in the free virgins which come with martyrdom? I mean, these major VIPs have to be hunted down, kicking and screaming. They never blow themselves up in order to win the heavenly chick sweepstakes. So either they talk the young, brainwashed suckers into instant martyrdom because they know the Islamic promise of eternal whoopie is a crock, or they're waiting for some less-than-butch ayatollah to make a promise of 72 male Hollywood interior decorators. Just an observation.

Posted by: OLDPUPPYMAX at July 29, 2006 6:46 PM

It is an incontestable fact that all terrorist leaders are gay. How else to explain their obvious lack of interest in the free virgins which come with martyrdom? I mean, these major VIPs have to be hunted down, kicking and screaming. They never blow themselves up in order to win the heavenly chick sweepstakes. So either they talk the young, brainwashed suckers into instant martyrdom because they know the Islamic promise of eternal whoopie is a crock, or they're waiting for some less-than-butch ayatollah to make a promise of 72 male Hollywood interior decorators. Just an observation. Posted by: OLDPUPPYMAX

LMAO. This is funny (and apparently true). I am, as compared to most posters here, quite gay friendly (from a civil rights, point of view), however I have noticed that the misogyny of Islam can only lead to over stimulation by one's own gender, and I have heard the Arab saying that Women are for children and men are for fun, and I do know that Johnny bin Walker (the American Taliban) had a Pakistani male lover.

But I have taken notice of Nasrollah and Moqtada al Sadr, given that the Arab and Iranian media, which I do watch, have a penchant for portraying their rants to the rabble, there is a decidely feminine flourish of their wrist when they try to straighten their turbans.

And what about those dresses Arabs are so fond of wearing, they call them a thawb but they are still dresses. And I bet the Chador is enforced because it is the perfect prop for a cross dresser (Michael Jackson was photographed in Dubai in a Chador/Abaya) and a burqa even better, great for hiding a beard.

Posted by: Nariz at July 29, 2006 8:05 PM

OLDPUPPYMAX,

Don't forget: "Paradise" for mohammedian pedophile-followers contains something for all sexual orientations (including gay pedophiles). In addition to the 72 grapes/virgins(?), mo claims "boys with alabaster skin" hang around to service the gay-pedophile Jihadist types. Check it out in the koran. Interestingly, the "boys with alabaster skin" is beyond translational dispute (some translate to "boys with youthful skin"). The "72 virgins" is probably "72 grapes".

My personal opinion is that as most Muslim men are taught to hate women, they become latent homosexuals. The more "latent", the more likely to commit suicide murder to attain the "boys with youthful skin". Their inside identity is screwed beyond help.

Posted by: hello123 at July 29, 2006 8:09 PM

You guys are hilarious. It would be a source of great amusement to me if it wasn't so serious a subject.

Any faith that teaches that some humans aren't as valuable or worthy as others, you know is man-made. And messes people up in a major way. Hopefully the world will soon learn this and the cult of old Mo will pass like a bad dream.

Posted by: Stand fast in the liberty at July 29, 2006 9:20 PM

Two down, how many more to go? Unfortunately too many!

Posted by: CelticCoyote at July 29, 2006 10:33 PM

OLDPUPPYMAX says "It is an incontestable fact that all terrorist leaders are gay. How else to explain their obvious lack of interest in the free virgins which come with martyrdom?"

I always thought they said they got 28 young boys as well as 72 virgins? Aren't young boys good enough for them, but I suspect the real reason is that they KNOW that they'd get 72 raisins in the firepit instead, but don't want those they indoctrinate to know that.

Posted by: Spirit Of 1683 at July 30, 2006 5:17 AM

My thoughts exactly dennisw. I hope he isn't his dad or brother or something, because I love Monk. That show's awesome.

Posted by: Killer Krickit at July 30, 2006 6:51 AM

"Any faith that teaches that some humans aren't as valuable or worthy as others, you know is man-made. And messes people up in a major way. Hopefully the world will soon learn this and the cult of old Mo will pass like a bad dream.

Posted by: Stand fast in the liberty "

It is a nightmare for my people for the past 12 centuries. And it is not going away.

Posted by: arjun.sevak at July 30, 2006 2:42 PM

Mazel Tov, Yisroel.

Posted by: Kepha at July 30, 2006 3:00 PM