iGlobalWarmer says:

I had 3 immediate reactions to that:

1. What?!?

2. Am I having a stroke? There’s nothing comprehensible here.

3. That’s gonna leave a hell of a skid mark when she flushes.

Jim W. says:

just what I needed.

An article full of self hate double speak to start the new year off.

Cursor_ says:

#2

You have no idea of the actual aims of Al Qaeda.

At present they are still concerned with the return to Sharia throught the Muslim world. The end of foreign intrusion, socialism and nationalism.

Their present method to achieve this is not working and will never work. For they have become fanatics. And a fanatic redoubles his effort, while losing sight of his goal.

Lasting change does not come through phsyical war or force. It comes from the people collectively accepting change either by necessity (Major events like The Great Depression, The Plague, Discovery of the New World) or by shifts in thought and reasoning (Organised religion, The Renaissance, End of Slavery, etc.)

Al Qaeda id doomed to fail eventually with this line of action, just as the PLO did. It took the PLO to finally come to move minds and hearts, not bodies. Al Qaeda will have to learn to do the same in time.

If bin Laden continues to live, he too may be come like Arafat, though I doubt he will live long enough to do so, he is far too old and not as healthy as he used to be.

The West is not going down the right route either. For as much as they tout the idea of democracy, they can never achieve it. It is an utopian ideal like communism. In the real world it cannot succeed as it cannot exisit unless all the people under the policies are ethically, morally and interdependently minded. Which humans are NOT.

Both sides cannot win. And because neither side will compromise and build a realistic union together people will suffer who are caught in the middle.

The ideals of ideology are over. Just as the fuedal ideals are passed and the tribal ones.

We are a different civilisation now and we require a different method of living and governing oursleves. The world has moved from hunter-gatherer to agrarian to consumer-driven.

We need a system built for a consumer-driven planet. The touchstone started the process, we are now at the apex of that mindset and we are still struggling with archaic ideals and need to move on.

Returning to the past will not help us. But remembering the past can help us to move on as a race. It is time for change again.

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Named says:

Reading too much into it. There is NO difference between the two. What IS different is the end-goal / game of their manifesto. Whether or not you agree with said manifesto is beside the point.

Now, I DID notice one difference… Terrorists are Lefties, and freedom fighters are Righties… And the chick is in the middle instead of on the fringe.

pedro says:

Oh, and in the case of kuzcoland, political prisioners are to kuzco what the prisoners are to his best friends, the Colombian guerrilla.

IOW political prisoners are what commie governments with a “democratic” enamel call their hostages.

Les says:

The winners get to write the history books.

Gary, the dangerous infidel says:

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”

–George Orwell

eyeofthetiger says:

Those lefties have invaded the patriots.

gitter says:

This guy might be a terrorist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW9qLsED3Xw
…or maybe not

Phillep says:

Oh, I’m going to enjoy using this on you leftards. If A=B, then B=A, so what are you going to call “conservatives”?

Everyone is a terrorist, so no one is a terrorist, so it makes no difference at all if anyone blows up a bunch of people?

Would it make any difference if the US government is killing a bunch of people? Wheee. Hey, have you told the 9-11 “truth” movement that it does not really make any difference if the US gov’t was behind the twin tower attack? It’s all the same, “terrorists” and “freedom fighters”, right? “Patriot” and “Fanatic”?