Agreeing with O'Reilly



Call me crazy, but I'm agreeing with O'Reilly now. Jesus, what is the world coming to? First of all re: Whoopi and the other lady walking off...let me give major props to Barbara Walters who totally calls them out on their childish nonsense. If the Left at all wonders why they are losing people like me (I actually don't think they care), they need to look no further than the behavior in this video.

Second, O'Reilly is right about the Ground Zero Mosque. Just take it to the Skokie, Ill case. Of course the Nazis have the "right" to march. But it doesn't mean we need to endorse it, or be in favor it? Or march with the Nazis. Now before going all crazy and saying I'm comparing Muslims to Nazis, just take the point that you can believe in rights vs. support an activity/cause. I don't support all sorts of things -- from Nazis to Facebook to Internet Dating to building a mosque on ground zero. Don't ask me to support them. I agree anyone has the right to be a Nazi (I suppose), or use Facebook, to Internet Date, or to build a mosque on their property, or root for the Yankees. Do I think these things are smart or wise: NO. Do most Americans agree with me on the mosque: YES.

But so what if people agree? 500 million people disagree with me about Facebook. I'm still right. And if I'm President and someone asks: are you in favor of Facebook, I say "No, I'm not." I don't say, "No comment," which is exactly what Obama said. No comment? Really, dude? Well, isn't the whole point of being President for people to listen to your "comment?" I suppose there are things that don't deserve comment or are political traps or something. But still. You're freaking President. He felt it necessary to weigh in on a he/said/she/said about the cops and the professor and did a whole beer summit about a complete non-issue. Yet, when it comes to the symbolic nature of how America is to deal with the Muslim world and a site of a huge national wound, all of the sudden, the President becomes judicious and humble. Really? Is that what we want of a President - to weigh in on an individual cop handling/mishandling a loud mouth college professor - and to remain silent on whether he thinks a Mosque at Ground Zero is a good idea?

Last question - does the Left not understand how building a mosque on Ground Zero is provocative?

It goes back to the very basics of 9/11. You hear it in the discussion on the View afterward. The ladies keep wanting to make the point that we are at war with TERRORISTS/EXTREMISTS and it has nothing to do with religion. It makes me wonder if they at all understand what Al Queda is - how it gets money, foot soldiers, land, guns, etc all from the backing of either Muslim states or Muslim individuals. Don't try and pull the US-Soviet nonsense for a moment. Just look at the present state of affairs. Look at Hizbollah and Hamas and how they are supported by at least 3 Muslim states. Are they related at all to Al Queda? Is there such thing as Islamic Radicalism? What has more in common Tim McVeigh and his tactics (ie terrorism) or the Muslim Brotherhood and it's philosophical relationship to Al Queda? Remember Egyptian Islamic Jihad was a violent offshoot of the Brotherhood and then later merged with Al Queda. Remember Hamas is an offshoot of the Brotherhood. Does this bear any relationship to say, the US Militia Movement, the Basque Separatists, or the violent Quebeciois in Canada? No. If we rolled up the KKK and the all the Militias in the US, would that at all affect the issues we are facing with Al Queda? No. But what if we rolled up the Taliban? What if Iran had a revolution and tossed out the Ayatollahs? What if Saudi Arabian individuals stopped funding Al Queda? What if young Muslim men weren't being recruited by radical clerics to join terrorist training camps? Would that affect Al Queda? You bet it would.

So you can't - if you have read anything on the issue - argue Al Queda has NOTHING to do with Islam and how it is currently being practiced around the world. Are we at war with Islam? Of course not. But one would either need to be completely clueless or a mealy-mouthed apologist to think Islamic Terrorism is not at all related to the practice of Islam. It would be the equivalent of saying, the War in Iraq has nothing to do with America because in the abstract it doesn't represent America and not all Americans support the War in Iraq and so forth. Guess what? That's wrong. The War in Iraq does have to do with America and our role in the world and our decisions, who we elected, how we came to the decision, how we interacted with other countries surrounding the decision, how the war was fought, etc. We ought to take responsibility for it in the same way the Islamic ought to take responsibility and acknowledge how Al Queda and other groups stem and are supported by the Muslim world. (granted a portion of it -- but a surprisingly large portion of it -- upwards of 25%).