Did you hear what Maliki said to Bush about the capacity of the Iraqi Army to retake Baghdad and keep it by themselves? Maliki said they could, Casey said they couldn’t. Maliki wasn’t necessarily lying either, but the Arab culture is such that admitting fault or weakness or blame is not acceptable. The language change won’t make Arabs admit that they got an internal problem that must be fixed. They don’t even want to deal with the internal problems in the first place, given that it is easy to blame foreigners.

Until it becomes harder to blame foreigners than themselves, there is no path of retreat for the Muslims except going through us. Arabs has shown that when Arabs are put on death ground, they will fight… against our mutual enemies.

Currently, the rest of the Arab world thinks AQ and Hamas and Hizbollah are their allies against us, their mutual enemy. They arrived at this decision because they have already been stuck in death ground, where they are forced to fight. Fight against us, because we are their escape from reality.

It is very similar to how the Russians conducted wars. They would use security battalions whose only purpose was to make sure the conscripts up front ran into the enemy and fought. If we, the one Russians are fighting, make the situation desperate enough for the conscripts, the conscripts WILL turn against the security battalions and fight them instead. The security battalions, of course, would be Islamic terrorists.

Denying what Islam is through Orwellian word-smithing isn’t a solution. It only enables them to continue as they are.

HEAR HEAR HEAR! Three Cheers to FriendOfUSA for stating the problem so succintly and clearly!

If you want to call it anti-German activity, do it because of the fact that Hitler broke the back of the Prussian military aristocracy and thus broke any chance of Germany becoming a powerful or great nation.

America in WWI and against the Soviets could have made great use of German military expertise, efficiency, and philosophy. Far more than we made use of the French, I assure you.

Can you imagine two extremely skinny Jews barely having enough energy to talk in a concentration camp arguing if this whole holocaust horror thing should be called
” anti-semitic-activity”
or
“anti-German-activity”
because it hurts the feelings of the moderate Germans who disapprove of the Nazis?

Would you say to the face of the tens of thousands of people affected by the loss of a loved one, a friend, a co-worker in the 9/11 event that the attack was “anti-Middle-east-activity” more than it was anti-American?

Would you tell a woman who has been raped only a few hours ago that the rapist is doing ” anti-male-activity” because what he did gives men a bad name , and that some men may have hurt feelings because of the backlash in feminists magazines?

“anti-Islamic-activity” seems to be a way to make us forget the serious pain of direct victims and make us focus on the much lighter pain of indirect victims.

This new name ” anti-Islamic-activity ” seems like a new and somewhat clever way of brainwashing people into sympathizing more with Islam than with Western civilization.

It is another step toward the Islamization of the West.

That is balanced out by the hard line radical Muslims take against moderate Muslims.

Unless moderate reasons have an actual “reason” to ally with us, there is nothing we can do or say that would get them on our side and keep them there. What keeps people loyal is self-interest and belief.

The terrorists exploit people’s self-interest by promising to kill them if they go up against terrorists.

The only thing that would be “bad” would be if you were unwilling to accept the surrender of moderate Muslims, instead favoring killing both extremist and moderate. Then the moderates will side with whomever they think can guarantee the safety of moderates and their family.