Reminds me of that waiter in the restaurant at the end of the world, who asked:"how would you like to have me sir: welldone, medium or rare?".

The only way that we could make it any easier for Islam would be by a Jonestown style mass CN- intake.

Pacifism is one thing, but lying down with your neck on the railway line is another.

Posted by: Zathras at March 14, 2006 8:04 AM

I don't know how much of the seeming lack of concern should be marked down to the fact that there may not be much qualitative difference between a Hamas-run PA from a Fatah-run PA. WorldNetNews carried an item, picked up from Palestinian Media Watch about Mahmoud Abbas's government confering honorary citizenship on two terrorists (one Lebanese; one Jordanian) currently sitting in Israeli jails whose crimes included murdering two Israeli toddlers in the course of a home invasion:
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49246

Posted by: waterdragon52 at March 14, 2006 8:11 AM

The difference is one of perception only.
It has become quite apparent that a new level of worldwide jihad has been reached now by Muslims everywhere, where there is no longer any necessity for the previous show of ethical pretence deemed necessary to fool the west. They now know that we are so gutless that we will give it to them no matter what they say or do. After all it is Jizaya.

Posted by: Zathras at March 14, 2006 8:25 AM

Why anyone would like to see her run for president is a complete mystery.

Posted by: Kim Hartveld at March 14, 2006 9:19 AM

The Indonesians are already licking their chops for all that extra cash coming their way...

This administration deserves a price for stupidity...!

Posted by: sheik yer'mami at March 14, 2006 9:34 AM

"Why anyone would like to see her run for president is a complete mystery."

Multicultural minority symbolism to unite the US.
The Republican party's answer to Hilary Clinton.

Worth a try really. Only if to see the look of horror on saudi princes' faces when they have to shake her hand.

I really doubt whether she is in charge of the rubbish she spouts and rather like junior Bush it makes you wonder who really is. Who is it that has most to gain from such continued dhimmitude which will certainly lead to war enventually?

Posted by: Zathras at March 14, 2006 9:49 AM

She, and Bush, and all the others, can't see the revenues that Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the U.A.E. are drowning in -- the hundreds of billions? And they simply cannot see that Homeland Security at the Federal level is costing $41 billion a year, and Iraq alone $140 billion a year, and then there are all the hundreds of billions being diverted to monitoring Muslim populations all over Western Europe and posting security guards before every government building, every Jewish -- and many Christian -- schools, hospitals, houses of worship, at every airport, train and metro and bus station, at every bridge, at every skyscraper, and yet she still wants to find ways -- despite the clear opinion polls that demonstrate that the people of this country are far ahead of the leaders, Yesterday's Men, still quasi-stuck in the Cold War, perhaps no longer seeing Islam merely as a "bulwark against Communism" but as a belief-system more dangerous, because with a much greater hold on the minds of primitive people, or rather of people made primitive by that belief-system and the habit of mental submission that it everywhere encourages.

We don't want to continue the Jizyah. If put to a vote, 95% of this country would vote to end all aid to the Muslim peoples and polities, and above all to the shock troops of the Lesser Jihiad, the self-primitivized local Arabs renamed, for obvious political purposes, the "Palestinain people" ("Palestine" -- "Palestinian people" -- well, it must belong to them, then, right?).

But our leaders, those who have failed in their duty to comprehend Islam, and the Jihad, and have therefore failed to instruct us (so people are forced to learn on their own, despite the false pieties routinely uttered by their leaders, and not helped one whit either by them, or by those in academic life whose departments of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies are full of apologists for Islam, or those too fearful, for careerist reasons, to speak out about what they know), are way behind.

And Rice is among them. One can forgive her embarrassing Russian (revealed when she made the mistake of allowing herself to attempt to use it on an interview on Russian television). One sympathizes with the dutiful student who always offered her teachers what they wanted. As long as it was something already well understood -- the danger of the Soviet Union, for exsample, she could take in the lessons. But now she is the not-terribly-brilliant aide to a not-very-intelligent president, who is mesmerized by his own illogic, obstinate in his own ignorance, and unable to grasp, for example, that when he tells us we "should not lose our nerve" no one is losing anyone's nerve; what we want from him is some sign of recognition that in Iraq it is legitimate to wish to exploit, rather than to deplore and attempt to remedy, the sectarian and ethnic fissures. It is legitiimate to wish to preserve Infidels from the ravages of the instruments of Jihad, now being so successfully deployed in, for example, Western Europe (the instruments of the "wealth" weapon, and Da'wa, and demographic conquest) because there are few leaders capable of fully comprehending, and speaking the truth, about the belief-system of Islam. And every attempt to tiptoe around, or adjectivally modify the problem ("radical" Islam or "Wahhabi" Islam or "Salafi" Islam or "extremist" Islam) is laughed at, and exploited, by the sly imams and the smooth-tongued Tariq-Ramadans, with their mastey of taqiyya, and their certain knowledge that the Western world will remain tied up in the knots (those inhibitions, that willed ignorance) of its own heedless making.

Rice is not equal to the task. And Bush is not equal to the task. And we wait for some others, in and out of Congress, to reveal by word, and then by deed, that they are equal to the task.

Posted by: Hugh at March 14, 2006 10:34 AM

What I noticed is that the quality of Condi's intelligence seemed to quickly drop down 25 points as soon as she became Sec'y of State. So maybe it's not the person but the office that makes one dumb. Wasn't Madeleine Halfbright rather brainless in her career as Sec. State?

Posted by: Eliyahu at March 14, 2006 1:20 PM

Condi for president, right??? Will it be more of the same ... or worse?

Posted by: epg at March 14, 2006 3:07 PM

Pffffffffthttthththtttthpppplpppp! (Bronx Cheer)
Let the widowed mothers of the suicide bombers go to work or starve in the street.

Posted by: Kepha at March 14, 2006 5:19 PM

Condi's tutor was Madam Madeline Broach's Father . . . Joseph Korbel or something like that. He was an interesting fellow. To put it mildly. A 'Jew' who somehow worked in an Axis puppet state in WWII who moved to the US after WWII. There he forgot his religion . . . so completely that Madline didin't realize that 3 of her 4 grandparents died in Aushwitz. Sure. I believe that. Actually, on a funny note, I think she was outed by the Israelis. It turns out there were some survivors in Israel who knew about Albricht's past and they gave her information about her family. I don't buy that for a second. Now she's on the take from the UAE boys. I'm sure Condi will follow, maybe joining her . . . Korbel and Daughters.

On a positive note, it looks like the Tar Baby Iraq seems to becoming increasingly unglued. Shini's killing Shi'as . . . what's the world coming to?

Posted by: biorabbi at March 14, 2006 7:33 PM

The bloody hell it does!!!!!!!!

Condi, I actually like you, but---SHUT UP PLEASE BEFORE YOU DO US ANY REAL DAMAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: pythagoras at March 14, 2006 10:13 PM

The Palestinians elected HAMAS for God's sake! Why do we squander money on these primitive savages so they can squat in Palestine, whine about their pitiful plight, and breed, breed, breed. That's all they do when they're not participating in street demonstrations/riots, terrorist training, or attacking Israelis.

Let the umma support their sordid, despicable co-religionists or let them get jobs in the real world instead of languishing in permanent refugee camps. God knows they have enough charitable terror funding organizations custom made for scum like the Palestinians. They wouldn't be permanent if the UN, the EU, and the US quit bankrolling them.

We demanded welfare reform in the US because we were sick and tired of supporting lazy, professional welfare slackers. However, I would much rather give this money to them instead of the barbarian Palestinians if I must contribute to Bush's worthless causes. At least our homegrown bums aren't rabid lunatics and terrorists, and the money would go back into our own economy. The world has been supporting these worthless creatures for over fifty years, with no end in sight. There are better ways to spend money we don't have.

Posted by: Susanp at March 15, 2006 12:11 AM

Is this aid, really a submission tax to Islam?????
I am sick of giving these people money for it to go now where near the people, they rake in more money with their oil than any other country does with their resourses..why keep giving them money when they it doesnt seems to be helping the people...
So why are we paying this submission tax... the only one who benifit are the leaders, who use the money to come back and kill us.. is the money perhaps going to palestian gang members or bullies like the protection money used to go to the marfia...
Either way it is submission tax...

Posted by: Gaye at March 15, 2006 8:01 AM

Here are the words of President George W. Bush in an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, which was issued for immediate release, by the Office of the Press Secretary-- note the date-- September 20 2001:

"We will starve terrorists of funding, turn them one against another, drive them from place to place, until there is no refuge or no rest. And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism.

Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists (Applause.)

From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime."

Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010920-8.html

Well, obviously we certainly wouldn't want to give financial aid, directly (or indirectly), to any "hostile regime".

Its reassuring to know that we elected someone like Bush-- and not some "flip-flopper" like Kerry . . .

Posted by: Krishna109 at March 15, 2006 2:11 PM

We need someone like Tom Tancredo for a wartime president. Cajones, brains, guns and hopefully the people at heart.

Posted by: daveconcerned at March 17, 2006 5:23 PM