Russ

We are trying. But you are fighting us every step of the way. We have a plan to try to make this happen. Part of that plan involves bringing more democracy to the Middle East.

What is your plan and how are you helping? By excusing the actions of terrorists? By blaming America? By making it harder to watch and track these people? Keep in mind that any spin or reason you might have for doing these things is not a plan. The liberal plan to keep us safe though inaction is like the liberal plan to end poverty by subsidizing it.

We fought a cold war without you and we won it. You were wrong then ad you are wrong now. Get out of the way and let people who know how to accomplish things do it. That’s part of growing up. Knowing what you can do well and what you can’t. That’s why you won’t see me try to play a guitar.

I wonder how Chief Joseph or Chief Sitting Bull would interpret the last half of the sentence.

While, there are peaceful Muslims, and most of those in the West easily fall into this category, they are far too tolerant of the bad actors in their own community.

I wonder how Eric Rudolph’s victims would interpret the last half of that sentence.

Adam, do you know any Muslims? I do; two of my friends immigrated from Turkey and still live in Boise. I visit them every time I go back home. They couldn’t be a nicer, more peaceful people.

Your post reads a whole lot like “my God’s better than your God” type of thinking that has embroiled us in this insane War on Tactics. You castigate me for conflating garden variety Christians with the hate-filled Christian-based rhetoric of Fred Phelps and Christian-based terrorist actions of Eric Rudolph, but then you turn around and conflate 1.3 billion Muslims with the hate-filled rhetoric of the worst imams and the terrorist acts of the worst Muslims.

And before you say it, yes, there are more Muslim terrorists than Christian ones, and the general Arab Muslim street is more hateful than the average Christian. But that’s only because the secular lefties of the Enlightenment dragged your witch-burning Crusading Spanish Inquisition asses kicking and screaming into civilized behavior. Yes, we need to drag the suicide bombing fatwa-issuing Muslim societies kicking and screaming into civilized behavior, too. Just remember that the only difference between our Fundamentalists and theirs is a 1400 year head start in the civilization game.