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Letter to Mr. Liberal

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Monday, October 15, 2007 8:27:56 AM



Dear Mr. Liberal

I have been listening to your rants and rhetoric for a while now, and must say that you have finally prompted me to write to you, directly, to vent my frustrations.  We have the same goals, sometimes, but even when they are truly the same, you fight me tooth and nail, then blame the problem on me, just to make me look bad. Continued...
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Ideology and War

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Monday, October 15, 2007 3:47:15 AM


"Anyone who has ever studied the history of American diplomacy, especially military diplomacy, knows that you might start in a war with certain things on your mind as a purpose of what you are doing, but in the end, you found yourself fighting for entirely different things that you had never thought of before. In other words, war has a momentum of its own and it carries you away from all thoughtful intentions when you get into it. Today, if we went into Iraq, like the president would like us to do, you know where you begin. You never know where you are going to end.” - George F. Kennan


George F. Kennan (1904-2005),
US diplomat - architect of Cold War-era containment policy
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Time for the U.S. to get comfortable with ideology
Mark Steyn online-only column

Peter Robinson, a Reagan speechwriter in the last years of the Cold War, posed an interesting question the other day. He noted that on Feb. 22, 1946, a mere six months after the end of World War II, George Kennan, a U.S. diplomat in Moscow, sent his famous 5,000-word telegram that laid out the stakes of the Cold War and the nature of the enemy, and that that "Long Telegram" in essence shaped the way America thought about the conflict all the way up to the fall of the Berlin Wall four decades later. And what Mr. Robinson wondered was this:

"Here we are today, more than six years after 9/11. Does anyone believe a new 'Long Telegram' has yet been written? And accepted throughout the senior levels of the government?"

Answer: No.

Because, if it had, you'd hear it echoed in public – just as the Long Telegram provided the underpinning of the Truman Doctrine a year later. Kennan himself had differences with Truman and successive presidents over what he regarded as their misinterpretation, but, granted all that, most of what turned up over the next 40 years – the Cuban missile crisis, the Vietnam war, Soviet subversion in Africa and Europe, Grenada and Afghanistan – is consistent with the conflict as laid out by one relatively minor State Department functionary decades earlier.

Why can't we do that today? Continued...
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Ideologically charged Islamic Economics

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Sunday, October 14, 2007 11:34:59 PM


"In short, Islamic economics has trivial economic import but poses a substantial and malign political danger." - Daniel Pipes


Islamic Dinar/Dirham
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Islamic economics: what does it mean?
by Daniel Pipes

While the outside world hardly noticed, a significant and rapidly growing amount of money is now being managed in accord with Islamic law, the Shari'a. According to one study, "by the end of 2005, more than 300 institutions in over 65 jurisdictions were managing assets worth around US$700 billion to US$1 trillion in a Shari'ah-compatible manner." Continued...
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Bishop urges Christians to call God - Allah

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Sunday, October 14, 2007 10:12:39 PM


Catholic churches in the Netherlands should use the name Allah for God to ease tensions between Muslims and Christians, says a Dutch bishop Tiny Muskens. Muskens thinks it could take another 100 years, but eventually the name Allah will be used by churches, promoting rapprochement between the two religions, he said.


"Useful Art" of Old Testament Trinity icon by Andrey Rublev, circa 1410 
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Hallowed be Thy Name 
by Ben Imas

   
"Allah" in the standard Arabic

"Allah" is the standard Arabic word for "God". So, according to Dutch bishop Tiny Muskens, in hundred years the images of The Holy Trinity icon - God Father, God Son, and God the Holy Ghost  will be called "Allah on the left",  "Allah on the right", and "Allah in the middle". Continued... 

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Casualties of Ideological War - The Little Mermaid

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Sunday, October 14, 2007 10:04:18 PM



This is a real photo of the Little Mermaid draped in a Muslim dress and head scarf



"Useful Art" of photo composition - Statue of Liberty in burka

Comment by editor:

I categorically refuse to see the Statue of Liberty in the New York harbor among 
Casualties of Ideological War, I cannot accept the Stature of Liberty  
draped in a Muslim dress and head scarf. What about you?

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Former President Jimmy Carter said...

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Sunday, October 14, 2007 6:44:17 PM

"I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world,
this administration has been the worst in history,"
 

Jimmy Carter
former President of the United States - 1977 to 1981

famous for



of doing nothing to stop...


the terrorist hostage crisis in Iran - 1979 -1981
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The Assassins - Terrorists of the Eleventh Century

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Sunday, October 14, 2007 6:21:34 PM


"They are men sworn to a brotherhood, ... sworn to serve the Ghost Walker, if he should come. They give a finger to their God, in witness; and they live apart from the tribes, in little groups together. For centuries now, they have lived with each other and their vows, and nothing more. Now the Ghost Walker has come again, he stands among them, and they are trying to slay him..."

 

The Assassins - Terrorists of the Eleventh Century

Assassins - sect inside Shi'i Islam, more specifically the Nizari Isma'ilis, in the period from the 11th to the 13th century. Most significantly, the Assassins are famous for their fearless murders especially during the times of the Crusades. Continued...

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Apology to Pat Buchanan

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Sunday, October 14, 2007 3:52:08 PM

"As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in
a cultural war for the soul of our country.”


Pat Buchanan

George W. Bush, Globalist
(click here)
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Apology to Pat Buchanan
 by Concepts2,
Member of American Ideological Society
Dear Pat,

I will never forgive you for running as a third party candidate and guaranteeing Clinton another term in office, but I have to say that I was wrong when it came to some of your other principles.  While I used to think you had gone off of the reservation, I was wrong on that as well. Continued...
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American Ideological Society

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Sunday, October 14, 2007 3:48:46 PM

More than seven in 10 Americans favor withdrawing nearly
all U.S. troops from Iraq by April 2008.

Seventy House Dems Vow to Block Continued Iraq Funding

US House votes for troop pullout from Iraq by April next year

There are still 90 million Americans who do not want to commit national suicide!

Are you one of them?

      

OPEN INVITATION

Ladies and Gentlemen,

You are kindly invited to join American Ideological Society (Read More...) and sign for your free of charge Membership at  American Ideological Society to continue great historical American tradition (Read More... ) and become publicly recognized as Ideological Warrior of the Nation in battle with Terror. Continued...

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Ideological maturity of Stu Bykofsky

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Sunday, October 14, 2007 2:58:53 PM

"If I knew the serial killer was living next door to me? I wouldn't call and tell anybody on him -- but I'd probably move. But I'm not going to call and be like... the serial killer's in 4E.'" - Cameron Giles



"It's like we're saying to the criminals, You can have our community.... Do anything you want and we will either deal with it ourselves or we'll simply ignore it." - Geoffrey Canada

(click here) 
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Stu Bykofsky has been a columnist with the Philadelphia Daily News since 1987. Prior to the column, his assignments included theater critic, TV critic, copy editor, general assignment features reporter. A native of New York City, Stu has won numerous public service and journalism awards. His professional affiliations include the Society of Professional Journalists, the National Society of Newspaper Columnists and Philadelphia's Pen and Pencil Club.

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Stu Bykofsky - Journalists should stop usin' 'snitchin'


WE'VE SEEN it on T-shirts, we've heard it on the radio.

It's gangsta chic to some, a death sentence to others.

It lets killers get away with murder and it's gotta stop. Continued...
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Properties of the Commander-in-Chief

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Sunday, October 14, 2007 12:17:03 PM

"The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise -- with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disentrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country." - Abraham Lincoln


Abraham Lincoln - President and Commander-in-Chief
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Seven Properties of the Commander-in-Chief
by Ben Imas

There are seven most important properties President of the United States must have at a time of war. 1. to be a Statesman of Principles, 2. ability to comprehend a nature of warfare; 3. clear mind to come to conclusions; 4. character to make strategic decisions; 5. rational capacity to grasp dynamics of battle; 6. intelligence to coordinate battle; 7. irreversible will to lead the Nation to defeat enemy. Continued...
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We are safer but not safe

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Sunday, October 14, 2007 12:03:01 PM

"I do not advocate violating anyone’s civil rights. I do advocate using any and all tools within the framework of the law to help guarantee our safety and wellbeing."


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Impediments to Making Us Safer
By Dennis Lormel

On September 12, I posted an article on the Counterterrorism Blog addressing the question “are we safer as a nation now than we were before 9/11”. I stated that we were safer but not safe, which is a prevailing theme. I attributed our safety, in great part, to the government agencies at the federal, state and local level, which are responsible for protecting us against the threat of terrorism. On the federal level, agencies to include the FBI, CIA and Treasury have transformed themselves to better meet the challenges confronting them. Continued...
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How Empires End

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Saturday, October 13, 2007 10:28:18 PM


"Like the British and French before us, we will be heading home from the Middle East."


Reminder of the Medieval Crusades the ruins of Acre on the Mediterranean

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How Empires End 
by Patric J. Buchanan

Responding to the call of Pope Urban II at Claremont in 1095, the Christian knights of the First Crusade set out for the Holy Land. In 1099, Jerusalem was captured. As their port in Palestine, the Crusaders settled on Acre on the Mediterranean.

There they built the great castle that was overrun by Saladin in 1187, but retaken by Richard the Lion-Hearted in 1191. Acre became the capital of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the stronghold of the Crusader state, which fell to the Mameluks in a bloody siege in 1291. The Christians left behind were massacred.

The ruins of Acre are now a tourist attraction. Continued...
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Pentagon and Islam

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Saturday, October 13, 2007 9:54:29 PM
"During the Cold War, we at least had the brains to recognize Soviet front groups and didn't invite them to the Pentagon for vodka and caviar," one defense official said. "Now, the Islamic militant front groups are [the Department of Defense's] guests of honor."



Pentagon 

and

Islam

September 11, 2001

Pentagon and Islam
by Bill Gertz

Defense officials involved in waging the global war against Islamist extremism are increasingly frustrated by the apparent failure of senior military and civilian officials to distinguish between the good guys and the bad guys. Continued...
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Congress shall make no law...

Posted by Boris Tiraspolsky on Saturday, October 13, 2007 9:36:16 PM
"So, here's the plan: Come January 2009, if Hillary Clinton is in the White House and Harry Reid is still running the Senate and Nancy Pelosi is still cleaning the House, they are going to pass a law bringing back the so-called "Fairness Doctrine." 





Our fragile First Amendment
by Joseph Farah
 

I've resisted the strong temptation to stick up for my friend and colleague Rush Limbaugh as he is attacked by Democratic members of Congress.

Rush is a big boy. He's got plenty of clout and a large megaphone. He can take care of himself.

In fact, from my vantage point, he is making monkeys of Harry Reid and the Senate 41 who signed their names to a letter designed to intimidate Clear Channel, the network that carries the largest talk show in America.

But writing about this controversy I am. It's not Rush who needs defending. It's the First Amendment. Continued...
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