You nut! I LOVE that!!! Especially the paragraph where he is listing all the religions in a most . . unusual order.

Haa-haa-haaa!!

That’s just fabulous!

Thanks for the laugh.

Deana

Dear Mr. Ahmadinijad, or may I call you Mahmoud?,
I write to you as a very important man. I am, as we might say, the most important man. If I wanted, I could have your butt on a platter, but I am not a man of violence, Mr. A. I am a man of words. People swoon for me. Do they swoon for you, Mr. A? No, they do not. You may think you bear a prophetic message. I AM a prophetic message. Soon I will heal the oceans. Hear me.

I say this. You’re gonna lay down that sword and shield- down by the riverside. Down by the riverside. Down by the riverside. You’re gonna lay down those nuclear aspirations, down by the riverside. Dowwwn by the ri-ver-side, and you aint gonna study war no more. (I used aint to be folksy, Mr. A. As a Harvard grad, I certainly know the correct grammar).

I know that I, as the leader of the free world, and you as the leader of the unfree world have much in common. We both dislike the US military. We both question Israel’s legitimacy. But it is all a matter of nuance. Bakshi, Mr. A. Imsha Allah, Mr. A, we will unite our great peoples and work together to make the world a safer and better place ( I say “imsha Allah” not because I have any connection to Islam but because of respect for your culture and traditions).

We here are a land of Christians and Moslems, Hindus and Buddhists, Zoroastrians and Confucionists, Atheists and Agnostics, Greek Orthodox and Episcopalian, 7th Day Adventist and Mormon, Sikh and Quaker, Catholic and Ba-hai, Nature worshiping and uh, Jewish- and we are stronger than you.

Let me warn you now, if you don’t immediately abandon your nuclear work and threats to wipe Israel off the map I’ll be forced to get tough. My ambassador at the UN will make sure that you become unpopular! We’ll make it unpleasant. You’ll see. But we won’t topple you like my pushy Texan, uncouth predecessor did with Saddam Hussein. So don’t worry about that. Even if the people of Iran want you out, we’ll support your right to repress freedoms and imprison and torture your citizens but I really wish you’d stop building weapons of mass destruction. Let’s work together to face a real threat. Let’s go tackle global warming together. Let’s talk. I can be verrry persuasive.

Yours,
Barack

and, in my absence, brilliance ensues.”

You may want to rethink that one, Book.

It also seems to me that many of the comments here get close to it as well. (I have taken the liberty to carefully alter a few of your words so as to grammatically enhance the concepts.)

“The disturbing thing is the absolute refusal to see what we are dealing with… As Ralph Peters said: “One of the most consistently disheartening experiences an adult can have today is to listen to the endless attempts by our intellectuals …assigning rational motives to men who have moved irrevocably beyond reason. We suffer under layers of intellectual asymmetries that hinder us from an intuitive recognition of our enemies.” David Foster

“It is the “anti-anti’s” so common among the intelligentsia that drive me crazy. gpc31

“Add …intellectual pride. Talk-em-to-death plus surrender.” suek

“The “anti-anti” crowd fail to ask or research this question: “Who do you think these people are?” Part of this is hubris. They believe that if they make nice with these thugs, that the thugs will change.” Gringo

The level of psychological denial and obtuseness that the liberal intelligentsia exhibit is intentional, though subconscious in nature. This denial springs from simple cowardice. ‘Moral’ cowardice at heart springs from physical cowardice, for without actual consequence, there is nothing for the intellectual or moral coward to fear.

It’s a cliché that intellectuals often have contempt for the ‘man of action’. Those who do rather than merely opine. That is because taking action, actually doing something, means participating in reality and, a primary component of reality is ‘physical’ consequence. For every action there is an equal reaction. It’s quite real, something actually happens… intellectual’s ‘contempt’ is ‘displacement’ for feelings of insecurity and inadequacy.

Naturally, not all intellectuals are cowards but all cowards ‘excuse’ their cowardice by rationalizing it…and an intellectual who is not a coward, will find it within themselves to pick up the sword of action when circumstance requires it.

When confronted with an actual existential danger such as Islamic terrorism; a fanatic, religious based insanity seeking world-domination so as to avoid their inability to function in the reality of a fast approaching 21st century… only one of two categories of response are possible; fight or flight.

People are not really so complicated when it comes to their motivations. They must choose either the response to danger of the horse or lion. gpc31 is indeed right, It’s cowardice as manifested by displacement. … The reality of Islamic terrorism is too scary to confront directly”

Charles Martel also had it exactly right when he said, “Obama [and liberals] does not know how to be a man. Obama (has surrounded himself with)…failed men, in the sense of an effeteness and contempt for real men …men who display …courage, that these geldings totally lack. These are mama’s boys who are going to pay back all of the people in their lives who’ve ever made them look bad or feel unworthy”

No one of course, can ‘make’ you feel ‘bad or unworthy’ and it’s displacement and intellectual dishonesty with oneself, to place the blame upon others for making us feel bad.

What shall all of this lead too? Again Martel had it right when he said, “I told my wife today in the car that Obama’s next step will be the withdrawal of U.S. support for Israel. She knows I’m not fooling around when I say Israel is in mortal danger.”

And that shall in turn lead to 11B40′s prediction: “we must either destroy the Islamic ideology or the Muslims.” sadly, that is where this is leading us and if we do not…

1Lulu’s feared terrorist strike, in time nuclear in nature will occur and, an American city(s) will disappear and ‘fortress’ America will emerge. An America under near-permanent martial law is one in which our freedoms will start to die and the American ‘experiment’ will start to fade away into history.

All because liberals cannot face up to a simple truth;
“Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. [Yet] There may even be a [still] worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish, than live as slaves.”- Winston Churchill, “The Gathering Storm.”

I think that the problem is that just as “it takes a thief to catch a thief”, it takes a man of religion to understand a man of religion. That’s why Clinton didn’t see the muslims for what they are and why Bush does/did.

Religion is a matter of faith, not reason. Reason may begin with faith and derive many truths, but the underlying principle is simply not one of reason, but one of faith. In the Catholic church, we consider faith to be a gift from God – that is, one cannot “try” to believe – you either do or you don’t. It helps to grow up in the belief and have never had any reason not to believe. Muslims are surrounded by their faith from the day they’re born. They’re told that if they cease to believe, the penalty is death, and the only _certain_ path to an afterlife in the garden of allah is by dying for their faith – it’s that important that they should believe. What choice do they have?

Until Libs understand that – and it may be beyond their ability to understand – they won’t understand islam for what it is.

“One of the most consistently disheartening experiences an adult can have today is to listen to the endless attempts by our intellectuals and intelligence professionals to explain religious terrorism in clinical terms, assigning rational motives to men who have moved irrevocably beyond reason. We suffer under layers of intellectual asymmetries that hinder us from an intuititive recognition of our enemies.”

We’ve been here before. Paul Reynaud, who became Prime Minister of France just prior to the German attack of 1940:

“People think Hitler is like Kaiser Wilhelm. The old gentleman only wanted to take Alsace-Lorraine from us. But Hitler is Genghis Khan.” (approximate quote)