D-Day via today's media

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Man, the parrots are noisy today.

The original article is almost clever .. in Freshman creative writing it would probably get a C+ (on a curve). Trying to compare D-Day to anything we've encountered since (with the exception of Afghanistan) is a stretch that only blind (knee-jerk) adherence to a political ideaology could allow one to make - the slightest touch of reality would upset that apple cart.

We all know terrorism is a act, it is not a movement.

I was going to say that this was one of the dumbest, most meaningless things I've read in a while, until I got to

ISLAM i[s] a religion of WAR.

and

[o]verthrowing 2 islamic nations in one term of office is fantastic

Islamic fundamentalism is a POLICICAL tactic that has been used at least as far back as the framework for opposition to Dutch occupation of Indonesia in the 18th and 19th centuries. Use against the West (and most of the EXISTING governments within the region) is a logical result of years of colonialism (economic and security-related exploitation) followed by 60 years of supporting the despot du jour in order to obtain oil and block (Soviet/Iranian/Iraqi) opponents.

In other words, what the bigots and the simple minded DON'T tell you is that the reason there haven't been "years of liberal enlightenment and humanism" is that we (the West collectively, and the Unites States specifically for 60 year) have prevented it from happening.

I, for one, would love to see thriving democracies florish in Iraq, Afghanistan and any number of other countries (both in that region and among some of our allies in the Coalition of the Bought).

But methinks that it would be a good idea to actually get at least a toehold of a functioning democracy operational in Iraq and Afghanistan befoe we take on any other nation-building projects. I have no use for the regimes in Damascus or in Terhan (don't like Mullahs, be they Islamic or Pat Robertson) - but there are possible worse alternatives.