Iran is a global menace, and the sooner the Mullahs are overthrown the better. After that, rein-in the Saudi-Wahabist axis.

Posted by: John C at January 22, 2008 6:08 AM

Chavez is a big buddy of Ahmedinejad.
This is just another reason to get control of our borders.

Posted by: jewdog at January 22, 2008 6:34 AM

I know, lets send Cindy Sheehan, Danny Glover and what ever that models name was down there. They can straighten out this little misunderstanding.

Posted by: AMartinez at January 22, 2008 6:49 AM

Where has Admiral Stavridis been for the last six years? Has he communicated any of his concerns to his commander-in-chief, the same one who wants what amount to open borders?

Posted by: PMK at January 22, 2008 8:25 AM

This story ought to be a top priority for politicians of both parties, but, of course, it won't. US troops should be brought home from the four corners of the world and put on OUR border. If not, we could easily lose the tenuous control that we have on some of larger cities within five years. The combination of well-funded Iranian-style Islam, guerrilla street fighting and the drug trade can do as much harm as a large bomb dropped in an American city.

Posted by: maryrose at January 22, 2008 8:37 AM

It ought to worry the Latin American countries.

How long before the jihadis have enough support to start a war for a separate country. The separatist wars follow wherever the jihadis go.

Posted by: Borg at January 22, 2008 8:47 AM

"This story ought to be a top priority for politicians of both parties, but, of course, it won't. US troops should be brought home from the four corners of the world and put on OUR border."

Don't worry. When the darling of the media, McCain becomes president he will take care of it. After all he said "The American people insist that the fence be built. So when I become president, I will erect their 'God-damned' fence." That's what we need - a president with a real heartfelt commitment to securing our borders. Voters in the upcoming primaries take note.

Posted by: RBLA at January 22, 2008 8:55 AM

The "surge is working." That should take care of the demographic changes, with an ever-larger and ever-more-aggressive and menacing Muslim population in Western Europe. That should take care of the Muslim menace in Latin America. The "surge is working." Iraq will be prevented from disintegrating, Iraq will be guided to prosperity, Iraq will become not a source of disunity and demoralization for the Camp of Islam, but rather, what this Administration always knew it could be, a Light-Unto-the-Muslim-Nations.

But since, as General Petraeus and Col. Kilcullen and Col. Nagl, all of them "thinking hard" about the problem of "counter-insurgencies" (and all of them apparently utterly oblivious to the world-wide nature of the Jihad, and all of the varied instruments of Jihad), have told us that "on average, insurgencies last about ten years" which, amazingly, just happens to be the amount of further time we have just been told by an important Iraqi general (our friend, our ally) has said that American forces will have to remain in Iraq (about "ten more years") in order to ensure what would be, from his point of view, a good outcome -- a unified Iraq, with the Sunnis more or less acquiescent in the transfer of power to the Shi'a, but hoping by dint of superior training and cohesion and aggression to slowly retake the center of power, Baghdad, possibly ministry by ministry, and then in the city itself, block by block -- but what is never asked by those "counter-insurgency" boys, with their iron laws derived from a hodgepodge of previous conflicts -- would we not laugh off the stage, or out of court, anyone who came to assure us that "on average, civil wars last about 4.7 years" or "on average, wars last about 11.3 years" or...well, you get the idea. And would we take seriously someone who did not recognize that the "insurgency" in Iraq, unlike those in, say, modern Kenya or Malaysia or Greece, are not those of one group fighting against one power (the rulers), either for independence for to gain control, but rather a fight that involves three clearl distinct groups -- the Sunni Arabs, the Shi'a Arabs, the Kurds -- and then, within those groups, further internecine warfare (for example, there are Shi'a who support Sadr, and those who support the SCIRI or Da'wa parties, and there are still others secular enough to follow Allawi, or Chalabi, once the great hope of the naive policy-makers in Washington).

"The surge is working." So we can keep plowing money and men and materiel into Iraq, for a goa. that I maintain cannot be attained, and that in any case makes no sense, makes the very opposite of sense. And meanwhile, the economic damage inflicted (now self-inflicted) on the United States plays right into Muslim hands, right into the "economic warfare" that Osama Bin Laden, for example, has repeatedly discussed -- but that part of his taped views is always passed over in silence by American commentators, who prefer to focus on sensational threats of violence.

We can lose the captains in the army. We can watch morale continue to plummet, and confusion reign, as those who hitch their wagons to the Iraq venture keep telling us that "the surge is working" and no one dares to explain why the "surge" is "working" only in the sense of decreasing, temporarily -- as long as the tribal sheikhs in Anbar continue to have their demands for money and weapons, so extravagant, so constant, met by the Americans who have no policy other than sheer bribery, and as long as the Mahdi Army and the other Shi'a do not yet feel they are threatened, in Baghdad, by a renewal of Sunni power, but the minute they do, it will be the mixture as before.

And meanwhile, now in Latin America, as in Western Europe, as in East Asia, the instruments of Jihad are being deployed, and already being exploited.

But the Americans don't see it. They are focussed on Iraq, on "winning" in Iraq. For, you understand, because everyone keeps repeating it so mindlessly, "the surge is working."

Posted by: Hugh at January 22, 2008 10:25 AM

I, nabi ZK, say that only ending drug prohibition will dry up this source of funding for terrs. Only. The current approach will fail. That failure will have serious consequences.

nabi ZK

...trust the nabi and dump the wahabi...

Posted by: zonie kafir at January 22, 2008 10:28 AM

I, nabi ZK, the nabific one, say that the surge is not the thing that is working although something else is. For the moment they seem to hate Al Q more than us! This too shall pass.

nabi ZK

Posted by: zonie kafir at January 22, 2008 10:41 AM

Hugh - the "Surge" is working all right - just like the Battle of the Bulge "worked" for the Germans, just like we "won" the Tet Offensive and just like Vietnamization "worked." They were all roaring successes... until they weren't.

Posted by: BunrattyBill at January 22, 2008 10:53 AM

Hugh - don't budge on Iraq. You were right, are right, will be right.

Posted by: poetcomic1 at January 22, 2008 11:19 AM

RBLA,

I do hope you were being sarcastic in your McCain comments. For a moment I thought you actually believed him.

Posted by: PMK at January 22, 2008 11:45 AM

What do you expect? Cowards Bush, Rice and Robert Gates have just chickened out of a showdown with Iran, with their NIE treason paper, so Iran and Hezbollah are running the cowards all the way to their front porch, and off their front porch. This emboldens Chavez all the more, as he keeps inciting Latinos to "learn from Iran and Hezbollah" in dealing with "El Diablo Grande Del Norte". A big "El Jihad Latino" is in the works. Munich-style cowardice is having the same cosequences.
Vote for Rudy and pray it is not too late.

Ruslan Tokhchukov, EnragedSince1999.

Posted by: Enragedsince1999 at January 22, 2008 1:53 PM

What do you expect? Cowards Bush, Rice and Robert Gates have just chickened out of a showdown with Iran, with their NIE treason paper, so Iran and Hezbollah are running the cowards all the way to their front porch, and off their front porch. This emboldens Chavez all the more, as he keeps inciting Latinos to "learn from Iran and Hezbollah" in dealing with "El Diablo Grande Del Norte". A big "El Jihad Latino" is in the works. Munich-style cowardice is having the same cosequences.
Vote for Rudy and pray it is not too late.

Ruslan Tokhchukov, EnragedSince1999.

Posted by: Enragedsince1999 at January 22, 2008 1:55 PM

The Surge caused most Shiite and Sunni terrorists to commence an armistice (hudna) to cease hostilities in the protracted 1400 year sectarian war. It began after Bush had all but handed Baghdad to the Shiites. Iran's Ayatollah's have always looked on the American intervention in Iraq as a subsidy of their aggressive foreign policy. While Saddam Hussein banned Shiite festivals, Bush allowed as many as 30,000 Iranians - many Basij fascists or Iranian intelligence agents - to enter Iraq each day. There are now over 3 million refugees - mostly Sunni - in Jordan and Syria. The Surge is an indulgence of ethnic cleansing, much like the air campaign in Kosovo, which allowed Ottoman' remnants to all but eliminate the 1600 year Orthodox presence in Serb territory. While Muslims - self-proclaimed slaves to "allah's regency" on earth - consolidate in 2 European states, cleansing efforts against the Judeao-Christian presence in what was Roman Palestine, goes on unabated, with yet another hostile state existing in prototype form in Gaza.

Muslims are winning Final Jihad by conscripting dhimmis to act out surrender scripts, to their benefit. After all, the con man have a pigeon in the White House, who believes - conditioned by oil patch-think - that "islam is peace."

Posted by: supercargo at January 22, 2008 2:08 PM

Funding subversion through narcotic has been used since 1839 Opium War. Yeah right Bush spear head this Iranian narcotic problem in Latin America. The moon used to be square, but it’s Bush fault that it’s now round.

Every President is hated during their term, much loved later when a new one take the punches.

Ya, yadda, yadda, yadda, blab, blab, blab.

Oh, the wind blew down my fence. Eh it’s Bush’s fault again!

Oh, Bush fault is so stale.

Please bring in new idea.

Posted by: ssa at January 22, 2008 2:30 PM

Legalize drugs.

Posted by: Hyman Roth at January 22, 2008 3:21 PM

It's narcotic; how does have anything to do with the surge?

Eh, everyone is a military expert.

OK, bring home all the soldiers, and let Russians, Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, etc help each other to build bigger bomb than ours; then we will feel safe watch rockets coming to us, such that lopped into Sderot.

Don't bother to have a Navy; they soldiers are only "boys" and not men as the anti-war called them. Boys should stay home. Please sailing is too hard on them. Give them X-Box, remote control. Yah, Remote Control War.

Sit back.

Nice fire works, specially at the finale.

Lets eat drink and be merry.

Posted by: ssa at January 22, 2008 3:54 PM

Enragedsince1999 said

What do you expect? Cowards Bush, Rice and Robert Gates have just chickened out of a showdown with Iran, with their NIE treason paper, so Iran and Hezbollah are running the cowards all the way to their front porch, and off their front porch.

The anti-jihad shouldn't be about bravado or swagger. It's not about being macho, it's about being smart, honest, and ruthless.

Too many of our Presidential candidates think that they can get the votes by hinting which Islamic country they'll attack militarily if they're elected. Even Edwards joined in. Instead, I'd prefer they focus on having the cajones to just name the enemy, without the qualifying phrases. Now THAT would take bravery. From there, they can move on to selectively controlling immigration, re-evaluating our relationship with our "good friends and strong allies" in the region, educating the public about the true teachings of Islam according to mainstream Islamic scholars, and reducing our dependence on ME oil. And of course, destroying WMD's that are being built by countries that have sworn to destroy us. I don't care if the Iranians think we're brave, as long as we destroy their capability to attack us. "Walk softly, carry a big stick" still applies.

And of course, none of the candidates come close. They offer only minor improvements over Bush, unfortunately.

Posted by: special_guest at January 22, 2008 6:54 PM

Islam is just as pathetic as communism and is oh-so similar. Excerpt from this article:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22788025/

Religion? NOT! Ideology? YES!

Many view high inflation and shortages of gas and bread as particularly bitter because Iran should be flush with oil revenues right now, from high world oil prices. More than 80 percent of the government's revenues come from oil, and Ahmadinejad had campaigned on a platform to help the poor.

"This was our fault. We elected a man who cannot manage problems," said Haydar Mirghasemi, who waited for an hour and a half outside a Tehran bakery this week to receive six pieces of bread — the staple of Iranian tables.

Long lines have formed at city bakeries because of fears of bread shortages, which have hit other towns and cities after heating gas was cut.

"During the past week, I came to the bakery four times, returning empty-handed" each time, said another angry customer, Ali Moradi, a construction worker.

Mockingly he added: "How good the government has treated the lower class."

Posted by: Aiken Bryce at January 22, 2008 9:15 PM

PMK, yes I was being sarcastic. McCain is a very tempting target for sarcasm. Recall his $50 an hour lettuce picking program during the amnesty debate. And in light of Hugh's comment above - who is the chief pusher of the surge strategy? None other than McCain.

Posted by: RBLA at January 23, 2008 10:06 AM

Special_guest:

Don't just read Rudy's words, read his record. What Rudy says, he does, and more.
For the first time since Henry "Scoop" Jackson ran 32 years ago, we have a chance to elect a great man the president of the United States.
Back in 1976, the Democrat primary voters nominated Carter instead of Scoop!
We have never recovered from that horrible blunder. We haven't had a man in the White House since.
We better don't repeat the Democrats' disaster of 32 years ago. Rudy is in a league of his own. We are lucky a man like this comes along in our lifetime, so we better not blow it.
My fellow Americans, this might be the most important election in this country's history. We must take our minds out of our usual partisan, ideological, or pet-issue boxes and vote to save this country, and the entire Western civilization. I salute Rev. Pat Robertson for rising above his usual Fundamentalist Christian ideology and endorsing Rudy, putting the good of this country ahead of the usual politics. We must follow Reverend's example.
My fellow Americans, whether you are Republican, Democrat or Independent, liberal or conservative, for the purposes of this election we must all become Republicans, Rudy Republicans. We'll have all the time in the world to return to our favorrite politics later, when it is safe to do so. But this year, simply forget about all other candidates - they simply do not exist! And do not sit this election out, for it is one like no other.
By voting for Rudy, each and every one of us will do the greatest service to our country and the Western civilization in our entire lives.

Ruslan Tokhchukov, EnragedSince1999.

Posted by: Enragedsince1999 at January 24, 2008 8:13 PM