Jackson Jambalaya

really?

and what does Iran have to do with Wahaabism and its spread?

What about terrorism by the home grown radicals here and in Europe?

I read this and just shook my head. al-Qaeda would LOVE it if every time one of their attacks brought us closer to World War III. That's the whole objective.

I don't think Harper's stupid, but I think he's pretending to be. I hope he gives up that act when he actually shows up to work at Congress, or his role in the next legislative session will be limited to comic relief.

I thought it was pretty damn ignorant and i'm the war hawk here. SO if Al Qaida London bombs us who do we go after? Iran? They are Shiite. Syria? Syria hasn't really helped Al Qaida. They are more into Hezbollah.

Like I said, does he even know the difference between a Sunni and a Shiite?

Of course he doesn't. Sigh. I was seriously thinking about supporting him--I'm a Democrat but Charlie "Mr. Burns" Ross horrifies me, and some of my neighbors were going Harper--but LORD, not know!

That's something one would expect from someone like that numbskull Landrum. The statement exposes Harper as lacking knowledge and insight about the Middle East, a complex and dangerous place. IMO on the Congressional stage we don't need inexperienced greenhorns.

I was anonymous. I was simply talking about his point re: articulating why we are there.

I doubt he knows the difference between a Sunni and a Shiite; if he does, he obviously doesn't care. But in the Republican primary, that's a plus, not a minus. It's kind of like not knowing anything about physics, evolutionary biology, psychology, economics, etc. Willful ignorance is celebrated in large segments of the American Religious Right, in exactly the same way that it's celebrated among the Religious Right in Iran and Syria. It's a city of God/city of man thing, where the more you refuse to learn, the stronger your faith is assumed to be--and the "stronger" and "more decisive" your personality is assumed to be. It's an apotheosis of the stereotypical male tendency not to ask directions. If you're determined to get there but refuse to look at a map, then that proves you're a real man. Or something.

In a country that elected Bush twice, I'm not sure that's an ineffective campaign strategy.

In a country that elected Bush twice, I'm not sure that's an ineffective campaign strategy.

But comments come back to bite Tom.

An adroit Democrat in a general election could use that statement ("Every time we get bombed then we ought to drop a hard bomb on Iran and Syria where all this garbage is coming from.") to peel off moderates who at this time, while they may support an activist foreign policy, have war fatigue.

It wouldn't be hard to turn Harper's words into a very effective TV spot that exploits that fatigue.

With all due respect Tom, give me a break.

I guarantee you during WWII every damn Congressman knew the difference between nazism and Communism or fascism. I don't expect them to know the finer points of subsitution nucleophilic reactions of the first order BUT I do expect them to know who the hell we are fighting and what their ideolody is in 2 or 3 sentences, especially since we have been involved with it for decades. Please.

Fitna is on the net.

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Fish, but they don't, and they celebrate the fact that they don't because it plays into the argument that they are "decisive" and guided by God's will, not human knowledge. In a Republican primary in Rankin County, that could be an effective campaign strategy.

WHY DO YOU PEOPLE CONTINUE TO DEBATE THE CURRENT SITUATION?????

I'M NOT A CHICKEN LITTLE SCREAMING, "THE SKY IS FALLING! THE SKY IS FALLING!"

BUT IF YOU READ REVELATION OF THE BIBLE, IT IS CLEAR WHERE WE ARE AND WHERE WE ARE GOING. NO AMOUNT OF RHETORIC CAN UNDO WHAT HAS BEEN PROPHESIZED AND WE MUST FACE REALITY. IT MIGHT NOT BE THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE AS THE PROPHEIES STATE IT WILL HAPPEN AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT. LOOK AT THE CURRENT EVENTS - SEEMS LIKE A PRIME TIME FOR THEIVES IN THE NIGHT.

It has for about 2,000 years now. Still not a good reason to go around bombing random people.