The Democrats are dangerous-and foolish-traitors. They don't know the first thing about the global war we are fighting.

Freedom1, Armed conflict will never ever solve terrorism. Not to mention that according to the White House report the war in Iraq has caused more terrorism.

How has other countries solved terrorism (Italy, England, Spain)? By having very good intelligence.

The Democrats are dangerous-and foolish-traitors. They don't know the first thing about the global war we are fighting.

Posted by: Freedom1 at April 3, 2007 10:47 PM

Neither does President Dips**t, since it was him who let OBL escape from Tora Bora as we invaded the wrong f**ing country. Sorry loyal Bushies but we can't win the WOT militarily, as our dips**t-in-chief believes.

Brian, no offense to you but you have no clue what you're talking about. Italy, England, Spain and the rest of Europe are in serious danger of being Islamicized and coming under the domination of Muslim Shari'a law. Read the following article. Here are excerpts:

"Europe's Stark Options" by Daniel Pipes (March-April 2007)

Europe's long-term relations with its burgeoning Muslim minority, the continent's most critical issue, will follow one of three paths: harmonious integration, the expulsion of Muslims, or an Islamic takeover. Which of these scenarios will most likely play out? [..] Here is an assessment about the likelihood of each scenario. [..]

...Conclusion
As the American columnist Dennis Prager sums them up, "It is difficult to imagine any other future scenario for Western Europe than its becoming Islamicized or having a civil war." Indeed, these two deeply unattractive alternative paths appear to define Europe's choices, with powerful forces pulling in the contrary directions of Muslims taking over or Muslims rejected, Europe an extension of North Africa or in a state of quasi-civil war.

It doesn't seem like an important change to me. They seem to want to use more specific terms, that seems appropriate when allocating funds and such.

I wonder if commenter Freedom1 is a veteran like me? If not, that Freedom1 doesn't know about the war either.

Funny that the Dem's are the traitors. It seems like most of the Iraq vets who run for office are Dem's, and most of the Republican administrations, especially Reagan, have spent billions of taxpayer dollars arming Muslim extremists in Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan.

Freedom1, I lived in Europe for nearly half my life, and I know a thing or two about what is going on there. The Muslim population is nearly 5% of the entire population of the EU. The problem is that the countries did a poor job of integration. They thought that they would just integrate into the society just like people from other parts of the world. The countries left the Muslim population alone hoping one day the problem would go away or they would integrate. That has changed in recent years and the countries are trying to take a proactive approach to the problem. That does not mean that all radicals are gone, as we have radicals in this country as well, both Americans and foreigners. If Europe becomes predominately Muslim, it will be because of the low birth rates, but that will not happen for a very long time.

America's foreign policy since the end of WWII is somewhat to blame for the problems in the Middle East. If countries do not want democracy, then why should we care? Democracy starts from inside and not forced upon. America has been propping up the despot leaders in the Middle East for far too long.

"If countries do not want democracy, then why should we care? Democracy starts from inside and not forced upon." Posted by: Brian

So, when Europe's population becomes predominantly Muslim under Shari'a Law, America shouldn't care?!? Please. You are aware that Islam is incompatible with democracy, right?

"If Europe becomes predominately Muslim, it will be because of the low birth rates, but that will not happen for a very long time." Posted by: Brian

Low European birth rates are the key to Muslims, Islam and Shari'a law becoming dominant in Europe. It won't take that long, either. On January 4, 2006, Mark Steyn wrote a column that everyone in the western world MUST READ. Here are excerpts:

"It's the Demography, Stupid"
The real reason the West is in danger of extinction.

Most people reading this have strong stomachs, so let me lay it out as baldly as I can: Much of what we loosely call the Western world will not survive this century, and much of it will effectively disappear within our lifetimes, including many if not most Western European countries. There'll probably still be a geographical area on the map marked as Italy or the Netherlands--probably--just as in Istanbul there's still a building called St. Sophia's Cathedral. But it's not a cathedral; it's merely a designation for a piece of real estate. Likewise, Italy and the Netherlands will merely be designations for real estate. The challenge for those who reckon Western civilization is on balance better than the alternatives is to figure out a way to save at least some parts of the West. [..]

When it comes to forecasting the future, the birthrate is the nearest thing to hard numbers.[..]And the hard data on babies around the Western world is that they're running out a lot faster than the oil is. "Replacement" fertility rate--i.e., the number you need for merely a stable population, not getting any bigger, not getting any smaller--is 2.1 babies per woman. Some countries are well above that: the global fertility leader, Somalia, is 6.91, Niger 6.83, Afghanistan 6.78, Yemen 6.75. Notice what those nations have in common?

Scroll way down to the bottom of the Hot One Hundred top breeders and you'll eventually find the United States, hovering just at replacement rate with 2.07 births per woman. Ireland is 1.87, New Zealand 1.79, Australia 1.76. But Canada's fertility rate is down to 1.5, well below replacement rate; Germany and Austria are at 1.3, the brink of the death spiral; Russia and Italy are at 1.2; Spain 1.1, about half replacement rate. That's to say, Spain's population is halving every generation. By 2050, Italy's population will have fallen by 22%, Bulgaria's by 36%, Estonia's by 52%. In America, demographic trends suggest that the blue states ought to apply for honorary membership of the EU: In the 2004 election, John Kerry won the 16 with the lowest birthrates; George W. Bush took 25 of the 26 states with the highest. By 2050, there will be 100 million fewer Europeans, 100 million more Americans--and mostly red-state Americans. [..]

Of the increase in global population between 1970 and 2000, the developed world accounted for under 9% of it, while the Muslim world accounted for 26%. Between 1970 and 2000, the developed world declined from just under 30% of the world's population to just over 20%, the Muslim nations increased from about 15% to 20%. [..]

And yet the world is utterly altered. Just to recap those bald statistics: In 1970, the developed world had twice as big a share of the global population as the Muslim world: 30% to 15%. By 2000, they were the same: each had about 20%.

And by 2020?

So the world's people are a lot more Islamic than they were back then and a lot less "Western." Europe is significantly more Islamic, having taken in during that period some 20 million Muslims (officially)--or the equivalents of the populations of four European Union countries (Ireland, Belgium, Denmark and Estonia). Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the West: In the U.K., more Muslims than Christians attend religious services each week.

Can these trends continue for another 30 years without having consequences? Europe by the end of this century will be a continent after the neutron bomb: The grand buildings will still be standing, but the people who built them will be gone. We are living through a remarkable period: the self-extinction of the races who, for good or ill, shaped the modern world.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110007760

Freedom1, I think it is a little alarmist to think that Europe is suddenly going to flying the flag of Islam anytime soon. I would agree that Democracy is superior to Sharia, but a country and its people must determine their own fate, for better or for worse. Everything in history goes in cycles.

"I think it is a little alarmist to think that Europe is suddenly going to flying the flag of Islam anytime soon."-Brian

Brian, you obviously haven't been keeping up with current events in Europe. Arnaud de Borchgrave just wrote an article which will help bring you up to speed on the dire situation in Europe:

Commentary: Europe's Muslim 'parallel' society: Churches provide sanctuaries to illegal Muslims

German city skylines are sprouting minarets, and irate citizens in several cities have petitioned for a halt to the muezzins' 5 a.m. call to prayers, which wakes up the neighborhood an hour before citizens normally get up to go to work. But judges decreed that since church bells are legal, the muezzins' wailing chants are too.

Europe's churches have provided sanctuaries that welcome illegal Muslims from North and sub-Sahara Africa, as well as the Middle East, where they can stay while their community lawyers move their appeals through local courts. Brussels Journal Editor Paul Belien wrote, "While Western Europe is turning Muslim, its Christian churches are committing suicide." By way of comparison, Saudi Arabia, whose Wahhabi clergy has dispatched missionaries to Western countries, does not allow a single Christian church.

The European Union's 27 member countries now house some 20 million Muslims, which is expected to double in less than 20 years. No one is more alarmed about current trends than Pope Benedict, who said recently, "Unfortunately, one must note that Europe seems to be traveling along a road that could lead to its disappearance from history." [..]

Der Spiegel quotes Berlin attorney Seyran Ates: "We are at a crossroads, everywhere in Europe. Do we allow structures that lead straight into a parallel society, or do we demand assimilation into the democratic constitutional state?" The European Union switchboard in Brussels finally located someone who said no such question had been posed to the European Commission.