Sorry but I don't qualify war as sane specially when this is brough upon wrong reasons. Up to you to think that the US/UK alliance went there for WMDs, I personnaly think it was more for the oil.
No offense, but if it was for oil, don't you think we would be rolling in it by now? Gas prices here in America are almost guaranteed to hit $4 a gallon this summer, a far-cry from the $1.50-2.00 range that we were in before the war. So if it was all about oil, you'd think it would be cheaper...
...Either way, France has enough on its plate, which has always struck me as odd as to why they haven't done their job in combating Islamic Fundamentalism through terrorism and Islamo-Fascist states (particularly when the immigrants make up what, nearly a quarter of the country? Or is it at little more than a third?), especially with their necks on the line. The same thing can be said of the Dutch, and even of the Germans, particularly when their increasingly more shall we say 'open' way of life is clearly in direct offense to these people moral and social traditions.
What it comes down to is a "don't say I didn't warn you" type situation, and that is why I'm hoping that Sarkozy does his part. No, I'm not calling for France to join us in Iraq or Afghanistan, but lets be frank, France needs to be tougher on these people and what they are presumably doing in that country. It does remind me of the story about the Mayor of Paris, who was openly gay if I'm not mistaken, who was stabbed in public by an Islamic Fundamentalist.
...Think more along the lines of bullets and bombs next time, and thats the stuff that I hope France can stay away from...
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On that note: I think everyone here needs to read this book:
Mark Steyn's America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It
From the inside cover:
Its the end of the world as we know it
Someday soon, you might wake up to the call to prayer from a muezzin. Europeans already are.
And liberals will still tell you that "diversity is our strength"while Talibanic enforcers cruise Greenwich Village burning books and barber shops, the Supreme Court decides sharia law doesnt violate the "separation of church and state," and the Hollywood Left decides to give up on gay rights in favor of the much safer charms of polygamy.
If you think this cant happen, you havent been paying attention, as the hilarious, provocative, and brilliant Mark Steynthe most popular conservative columnist in the English-speaking worldshows to devastating effect in this, his first and eagerly awaited new book on American and global politics.
The future, as Steyn shows, belongs to the fecund and the confident. And the Islamists are both, while the Westwedded to a multiculturalism that undercuts its own confidence, a welfare state that nudges it toward sloth and self-indulgence, and a childlessness that consigns it to oblivionis looking ever more like the ruins of a civilization.
Europe, laments Steyn, is almost certainly a goner. The future, if the West has one, belongs to America alonewith maybe its cousins in brave Australia. But America can survive, prosper, and defend its freedom only if it continues to believe in itself, in the sturdier virtues of self-reliance (not government), in the centrality of family, and in the conviction that our country really is the worlds last best hope.
Steyn argues that, contra the liberal cultural relativists, America should proclaim the obvious: we do have a better government, religion, and culture than our enemies, and we should spread Americas influence around the worldfor our own sake as well as theirs.
Mark Steyns America Alone is laugh-out-loud funnybut it will also change the way you look at the world. It is sure to be the most talked-about book of the year.
...I don't care if your on the left or the right, it is an interesting read. All I ask is that you consider it...
