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    West vs. Islamofacism: We're too Nice

    West vs. Islamofascism: We're Too Nice
    by Deroy Murdock
    Posted Sep 22, 2006
    http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=17169

    U.S. Loses Key Interrogation Tool Under McCain Compromise


    From the Vatican to the Pentagon, goodwill gestures offered to the Muslim world too often blow up in the West’s collective face.

    The olive branch Pope Benedict XVI extended to Muslims is obscured by the smoke that has billowed since his address at Bavaria’s Regensburg University. The Pope cited a conversation between “an educated Persian” and the 14th Century Byzantine emperor, Manuel II Paleologus. They discussed, the Pope said September 7, “the subject of Christianity and Islam, and the truth of both.” He then quoted Paleologus who said: “Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.”

    The Pope described this comment’s “startling brusqueness” and later recommended a “genuine dialogue of cultures and religions so urgently needed today.” He added: “we invite our partners” into such discourse.

    The Pope’s call for Christian and Islamic interchange ignited days of Muslim rage. Demonstrators in London waved placards that read, “Islam will conquer Rome” and “Jesus is the slave of Allah.”

    “We tell the worshipper of the cross,” the Mujahedeen Shura Council’s Internet communiqué warned, “we will continue our jihad and never stop until God avails us to chop your necks.”

    Muslim hotheads torched seven churches in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Likely infuriated by the Pope’s speech, two gunmen in Mogadishu, Somalia fatally shot Sister Leonella Sgorbati, 65, four times in her back. They also killed a bodyguard at the children’s hospital where the Catholic nun worked.

    Oh, well. So much for dialogue.

    U.S. officials offered an olive branch of sorts to 190 top Taliban fighters last July. An unmanned Predator drone spotted them in Afghanistan, lined up virtually in formation. Given this golden opportunity to liquidate nearly 10 score of America’s most bloodthirsty enemies, U.S. military commanders balked. The Taliban members were at a funeral, and Pentagon rules of engagement prevent attacks in cemeteries. So, the Taliban forces casually dispersed. Military officials told NBC News they had “no regrets” about their decision.

    The Taliban subsequently has hammered Coalition forces in some of that conflict’s most intense combat yet. They also showed no American-style mercy at the funeral last September 11 of Paktia provincial governor Abdul Hakim Taniwal. A suicide bomber used that occasion in Khost to kill six mourners and injure 25 others. The previous day, a Taliban suicide bomber killed Taniwal, his nephew, and his bodyguard.

    Amid such mounting carnage, GOP senators Susan Collins, Lindsay Graham, John McCain and John Warner have joined Democrats to limit President Bush’s plan to keep interrogating terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay within Geneva Convention restrictions the Supreme Court imposed last June.

    These gelatinous Republicans must believe America tortures Gitmo detainees -- never mind the taxpayer-funded, culturally correct meals, library books, and extensive worship, recreation, dental care, and medicine these Islamofascists enjoy. Tough questioning, such as “waterboarding” or simulated drowning, makes terrorists talk. That’s how U.S. interrogators encouraged Khalid Sheik Mohammed to detail how he masterminded al-Qaeda’s September 11 attacks. He then ratted out Hambali, the man behind the October 2002 Bali bombing that killed 202, and “dirty bomber” Jose Padilla.

    Al-Qaeda honcho Abu Zubaida stayed quiet until interrogators stuck him in a cold room and blasted the corrosive music of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Zubaida cried uncle and began to talk. He helped America find terrorists Ramzi bin-al-Shibh, Amar-al-Faruq, Rahim al-Nashiri, and Muhammad al Darbi.

    These interrogations help America connect the dots. Stopping them, as McCain and company would do, disconnects the dots. This likely will blow more Americans to smithereens.

    If McCain and his pals worry about torture, they should ponder the daily agony of the loved ones of the 1,151 people who were killed on September 11 and never even recovered from Ground Zero. Assuring that Islamic fanatics never again vaporize Americans is why we must squeeze captured terrorists until they sing.

    Throwing olive branches at Islamofascists is beyond futile. This is the War on Terror, not the Summer Olympics on Terror. If America won’t fight this like a war -- and win -- we might as well cut our losses, hand out the Korans, and start the mass conversions.

    Mr. Murdock, a New York-based commentator to Human Events, is a columnist with the Scripps Howard News Service and a senior fellow with the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in Arlington, Va.
    “In questions of power…let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” –Thomas Jefferson

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    Yet another reason why we shouldn't be spending billions of dollars on stupid tribal wars on the other side of the planet that cause religious fundamentalists to attack us.

    I wish America was more conservative.

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    Throwing olive branches at Islamofascists is beyond futile. This is the War on Terror, not the Summer Olympics on Terror. If America won’t fight this like a war -- and win -- we might as well cut our losses, hand out the Korans, and start the mass conversions.
    Exactly.......maybe I'm wrong......but I always thought war was a last resort when all the polite niceties and talks didn't work. War was never ment to be pretty......that's why you avoid them. War is not rational or logical or fair. Last one standing wins. If these guys want to play nice....then let them match wits with video games instead of sacrificing human lives.
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