IRAQ – The (Jack) Kennedy Plan

Once upon a time in America, one President rose to address a nation faced with global enemies, and firmly asserted the American creed:

“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe – in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty!”

The President was John F. Kennedy – a Democrat – a figure now nearly revered in American history.

The global enemy of that day were revolutionary

Freedom of Religion …

One of the initial difficult hurdles I certainly faced personally, when first approaching the issue of Islam vs Radical Islam, was the tendency shared by many in the West who want to look at the issue of religions as a simple matter of moral relativity – that all faiths and religions are somehow “created equal”, and that it’s all simply an intellectual difference in cultural and historical perspectives.

That would be fine, if the cultures involved were committed to debating their differences in a more or less civil manner, resulting in at worst a headache – rather than having one’s head separated from one’s shoulders,

Our “Secret Weapon”: Israel …

“Eventually Israel will be attacked by these clowns [Iran] and the whole farce will come to a very swift end as Israel deals with this demented nonsense once and for all.” — Frank

Respect for the Israeli’s is well-deserved; they have stood up against incredible odds and prevailed, and they took pre-emptive action against Saddam’s nuclear ambitions long before those ambitions were on many people’s radar screens (the WMD-denier’s notwithstanding).

But the Israeli’s are not invincible,

Sayonara, Saddam …

On balance, the execution of Saddam Hussein by the fledgling Iraqi nation for his dictatorial excesses is a good thing, and probably should have happened sooner – and definitely not any later.

We can nit-pick the details, and the “what-if’s”, and the supposed benefits of keeping him alive, but when you come right down to it,

Islamist Pyschopathologies

On the subject of “psychopathic personality disorders”, Nonie Darwish in her new book “Now They Call Me Infidel” offers a facinating insight into the Arab/Islamic mindset, from the perspective of someone who grew up in that world.

Essentially she points out that the entire culture and mindset is “shame-based”, which is a tremendous dysfunction to begin with. However she also points out