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1. This IS America: freedom of opinion. You'ld love it already...
2. I (again) fully agree with you, Skybird.
3. I read Charles Krauthammer's sharp comments on a regular basis in TIME.
4. They will love you in return; Americans are happy to receive friendship and often have a big hart (if that is the correct expression in English).
5. I'll ask Onkel Neal to publish the first line of your posting in the Subsim News section (if only to give me the chance to blackmail you with it in the future...)
:D

Crisis escalating. They've kidnapped Hagar! :oops:

:rotfl:

That’s Style :rotfl:

Actually, in all seriousness, the crises may very well be escalating. :-?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,184780,00.html

Happy Valentines Day! http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2...28.shtml?s=icp , http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/S...EAskTheScholar

Once again, they are trying to impose their values onto a group which disagrees with them (although at least it is not us in this case).

:roll:

2 relevant entries at Michelle Malkin's site:

NEXT, THEY CAME FOR KFC (Poor Ronald! :oops: )

DANES PUT HEAT ON LYING IMAM

Daniel Pipes pipes up:

How the Cartoon Protests Harm Muslims

Which is just fine by me.

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Those people are not just oversensitive and overheated but also overchildish.
How far have you sunken if you kidnap a cartoon figure like Hagar and threaten it with death in order to put pressure on the Danish government...
:down:

But if they become isolated from us, and we just ignore them, isn't it possible they can just work secretly to develop the means to strike a blow against the west? They could develop nuclear weapons (and maybe even an effective carrier system) or sponsor another terrorist attack. Not all Islamic countries would engage in such a practice, but authoritarian regimes such as Iran are not very trustworthy to leave completely outside the sphere of international organizations as rogue states.

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Isolated or not, they could do all those things, if they're as nuts as their own demonstraters...

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.....and religious authorities and political leaders..........

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Unless they are checked early in the game by steadfasty diplomacy from the West backed up with a whole scala of measure, from diplomatic pressure, through samctions to military pressure...

Frankly, it's up to Europe:

What Will Europe Really Do?, By Victor Davis Hanson

A great read.

IMO Europe won't have the courage and integrity to defend itself until much later in the game, hopefully before it's too late.

That is very true. But they have an even greater chance of doing it if we completely leave them to their own devices.