The Negotiator Cometh

9-11 is here and it seems like everyone has ssomething to say or gripe about or both.I had to drive my girlfriend to work, so I had a chance to listen to WNPR for a while. I like Public Radio although sometimes I have to turn it off, because they have some real loonies on their shows. The callers are off in lala land too.

Naturally today the talk was about 9-11, the war on terror, and Iraq. All these years the answer has been "Bush lied" and "we need to get other countries involved". Now the mantra is "Negotiate".

I've looked at those questions, and all I can say is that the Whole World Intell community was in Agreement on Iraq. Every Intell agency in the Whole World agreed that Saddam had WMD, as inconvenient as that may be. I can't believe that anyone with 1/2 a brain can still possibly thinks that anyone is going to help us. Al Qeada has convinced everyone except Blair and Bush not to go against them. Just take an honest look at what happened in Madrid.

That only leaves "negotiate," but negotiate what? Islamists and Democrats say we have to change our foreign policy in the middle east. To what? They complaign that we support bad governments like the Saudi's and Kuwait.Those people aren't free like we are here in the USA, but they can drive, Vote in some cases, listen to music, watch movies and tv, travel, and they are loosening up their societies. How many hundreds of years did it take for women to get the right to vote here in the "free" world?

That's the part I don't get. Are we supposed to Negotiate away those advances, however meager they are, for a Taliban-like Regime? How many lashes are allowed under the "Geneva Convention" for not wearing a Burka? 5, 10, 20? Should they be shot for leaving the house without a male escort? Is that what we Enlightened people in the West are supposed to "negotiate"? I don't ever recall ever hearing about the Taliban letting the Afghans vote for anything at all. I can only remember seeing on TV the Afghans being beaten, stabbed, and shot dead at old soccer fields for Disobeying their rules. In Somalia were the Islamic Courts took over the country, the Islamist Defenders of the Faith went aroud Killing people for watching a World Cup soccer game on TV, in the name of God though.

Am I really to believe that if we don't support those Middle East govts. and let the Taliban-tyes loose on the population, that the Arab street is going to love us and rejoice? I tend to doubt it. They hate us now, and it's better than its ever been. I can only imagine what they'ld do if we made it worse.

It's time for anyone with 3/4's or more of a brain to start using them, Wake-up and Smell the Coffee as the saying goes.