Originally Posted by neumann

Back in 1979 they took hostages...today they just kill them. 1 day or 444 days. Seems like the process has escalated exponentially. Our repsonse should be swift, merciless and overwhelming. Too much falling over and trying to appease religious radicals and not enough big stick action. The ME population in general does not respect the West in the sense some folks are garnering for. They do respect the west for its overwhelming advantages of wealth, power and freedoms. They laugh and mock us and gather motivation and will to continue with events that unfolded yesterday because they can go on with vitual impunity with little risk of serious reprisal because of the West's fear to disturb the Islamic radicals. The riots will continue, more deaths will occur and this will spiral further out of control because of the PC fears. The moderates Muslims need to rise up now or be damned by their silence. The past 40 years will go down in history as a time of moderate Islamic failure to reign in their radicals and the world to bear witness to the resulting expense of blood and treasure that it will take to counter and rebalance the state of world affairs.