gdp's Comments

Big Peace : Military Force vs. Gaddafi: Welcome and Worrisome

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:15:16 +0000

B: Thanks for that information. You are right. I hope, however, you agree with the point--a strong US Navy was critical to our security. And the Navy did its job re: the Barbary coast and proved Jefferson and others correct whoa rgued for a strong Navy early in our country's history. All the best, Peter Huessy

Big Peace : WikiLeaks Provides Evidence We Need to Cut Off the Head of the Snake

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:04:45 +0000

"Cutting off the head of the snake"...can be done economically (unplg their economies from the world especially the banking system) or with minimal use of cruise missiles and JDAMS, blockade (as was suggested during 2008 campaign). If these threats are serious, then we should also be serious. These people have already declared war on US! Go back to th Pueblo or the embassy seizure. Oh, I forgot, there was this Korean war thing. And these criminals in Pyongyang killed by Korean family father in Burma in 1983 who was a member of the ROK cabinet and my techer at Yonsei University. Of course, if there is no threat, then come home, withdraw, establish diplomatic relations, and sing "can't we all get along" (Rodney King) or Kumbayah just to celebrate. As I wrote September 11, 2001 in an oped in Investors Business Daily: "It is Time to Get Serious , America". Indeed.

Big Peace : WikiLeaks Provides Evidence We Need to Cut Off the Head of the Snake

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:56:23 +0000

Iran is maing war on the sovereign governments of Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon, as well as Israel. Their proxies are armed, trained and financed by Tehran to kill fellow Moslems, US soldiers and coalition partners. Previous documents showeed Iran working to undertake a coup in a number of Persian Gulf and North African nations. Iran was responsible for Lockerbie and Beirut, among other murderous attacks. Whether "invasion" by terrorist proxy meets your definition of aggression is of course your choice. Liberating 50 million people from the horrors of Saddam and the Taliban---what would you call it? Especially in that the Taliban sponsored the attacks on the US on 9/11; Saddam was behind at least the 1993 WTC attacks and others. We were protecting our nation's security. There is something in the Constitution; it says "Provide for the Common Defense".

Big Peace : Defense and the New Congress

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:13:53 +0000

Being unable to answer simple questions leaves you hurling insults. If all Moslems are by their very nature out to conquer the world, what is your policy prescription? Ban Islam from being practiced? Ban anyone with a Muslim background from immigrating to the US? What about those here already, legally? Your policy analysis brings you into an untenable cul de sac from which you cannot extract your self and thus you are left without a policy that either makes sense or is sellable to the American people. Should we ban Sharia law practices? Yes, but the recent court decision re: Oklahoma shows that is not going to be easy. Again, you have no solutions.

Big Peace : Defense and the New Congress

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:07:04 +0000

Big Peace : Defense and the New Congress

Fri, 5 Nov 2010 21:21:02 +0000

I will try and answer your concerns. (1)Saddam was attacking us from Iraq as were the Taliban in Afghanistan. In the absence of doing anything about either country from 1992-2001, they both either gave sanctuary to terrorists or armed themselves, attacked us with impunity, while Iran built missiles and nuclear weapons. Saddam nearly had nuclear weapons circa 1991 when we liberated Kuwait.
(2)What would you like to do? Nuke all Moslems? They do not wear name tags that tell us which ones share the monstrous ideology and which ones do not. They are not all out to conquer the world. Those jihadis in a mosque or a madrassa, they do not have nuclear weapons; they can be pirates but that does not threaten our civilization;
(3)But they can get them from states which are using the jihadis as recruits to do their dirty work. Though these jihadis can live in states that are broken, such as Somalia, they have the accruements of power which can eliminate. Iran will probably create a IRGC cell for the purpose of taking a nuke into an American city.
(4)I never said terror groups or individual terrorists were the gravest threat. It is states armed with nuclear and biological weapons that wish to destroy us and these include Russia and China whom we see as friends. They are not. But they use terror groups to attack us and weaken our friends and allies.
(5) Now Muslims do through intimidation and violence take over swaths of land in such countries as France where there are thousands of no go zones. Do you think they will actually succeed here in the USA with Bubba and his pickup, gun and dog? It will not be a fair fight. What they want to do is totally unconstitutional by and large and they can be defeated in the courts and by outlawing sharia as Oklahoma seeks to do.
(6)And I have never bought on to the nation building, win hearts and minds deal; so stop accusing me of so believing.
(7)If you want to go fight 1.3 billion Muslims go right ahead. Few Muslims out of the 1.3 billion actually believe what Islam asks them to do—kill all those who do not believe including fellow Muslims; see Shia and Wahhabi.
(8)In Iraq Sharia is not always followed --women work, go to school and in fact more of them are in the Iraqi parliament than there are women in our current US Congress as a percent of the total membership.
(9)Will Islam go through a reformation? I do not know. But they have not conquered the world and we have the tools to stop those nations that are seized with the view they have the right to kill all in their way such as Iran.
(10)But Syria? You have to be kidding if you think Assad is motivated by Islam. It is power he craves. That we can take away from him if we have the balls. Do we? We will see…
(11).Is Islam totalitarian? Yes. Was Nazism? Yes. Did we kill every Nazi? No we took away the instruments of Nazi power and eliminated the big cheese himself, but that was after the war was nearly over and he did us the favor by killing himself. I am on your side yet you are seized with a very simple view of Islamic people which will get you nowhere.

Big Peace : Defense and the New Congress

Fri, 5 Nov 2010 16:57:22 +0000

You are absolutely right that Russia and China are pursuing and have been pursuing an agenda anti-thetical to US interests. The new House understands this much better than the current House membership and hopefully we will see that reflected in the next year's budget and policy deliberations. However, as you no doubt know, it is not easy to drive US security policy from the Hill, but we are obligated by our oath to "provide for the common defense".

Big Peace : Defense and the New Congress

Fri, 5 Nov 2010 16:54:14 +0000

Sir: Not every country that has a Muslim majority is pursuing a foreign policy antithetical to US interests; neither Iraq or Afghanistan need to be our adversaries. As long as they are not active supporters of terrorism and terror groups wihtin their borders, and to the extent they actively oppose state sponsorship of terrorism, we are better off. Stopping the Iranian missile and nuclear programs will not suddenly be easir with an Iranian type state in either of these two nations. I am fully aware of the nature of Islam and of Sharia law. Unless you have a means of walling off all countries within the Islamic world, we have to deal with them, admittedly most as they are; we found Afghanistan and Iraq key state sponsors of terror and that is why we took down these regimes; "democracy" building is not our job and I have never claimed that it should be. The Iraqis and Afghanis will respect the "strong horse". That is what America must be.

Big Peace : Reflections on Casa de Maryland Shed Light on Ground Zero Mosque

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:50:34 +0000

Remember as I am sure you do, Moscow created most of the terror groups now existing--Abbas, plus the Supreme Leader in Iran, plus Arafat , KS Muhammed and Che all went to school at the KGB run Patrice Lumamba University in Russia! I am on your side just asking for a slight but important modification of the strategy to fight our common foe. rue, Moslems do not conveniently wear badges identifying those who fight and support "jihad" and those who want nothing to do with it. And we will not turn 1.2 billion people away from their faith---remember there are plenty of "commies" left but the key source of their weapons, financing, training etc is gone--tragically, yes, in Cuba, Venezuela, and Russia (and here in the USA!) there remain those commiitted still to its totalitarian aims. All the best, Peter Huessy

Big Peace : Reflections on Casa de Maryland Shed Light on Ground Zero Mosque

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:50:14 +0000

I know the MB folks have called for using our own constitutional protections to undermine and eventually destroy us. We simply have to prevent this and stop the mother's in their tracks. An easy job? Of course not. While Reagan spoke mightily against the "theology" of communism, we also made war against the entire empire, especially economically, politically and militarily. I highly recommend Norquist's piece from 2001 from the National Intelligenser, (yes this ironically is Grover's father)--but it is the best peice ever done on how we made war against Moscow from the Reagan administration--he nails it in every respect.

Big Peace : Reflections on Casa de Maryland Shed Light on Ground Zero Mosque

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:49:38 +0000

There are 5 schools of Sharia and there are Moslems that want nothing to do with jihad, the extremism of SA, Iran and the ISI in Pakistan among others. We cannot arrest or shut down all Muslems or all Mosques. But we can shut down those who advocate the elimination of our constitutional liberties and of course, we can stop being intimidated. Even if Islam was not the motivating factor behind the mosque, I would still want to know who is funding it and what its purpose was.

Big Peace : Reflections on Casa de Maryland Shed Light on Ground Zero Mosque

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:34:37 +0000

As for Mr. Soros, his various groups have proposed eliminaing most of the US missile defense and nuclear deterrent capabilities and he has worked assiduously to leave Iraq to the tender mercies of our enemies, as well as helping to fund MoveOn.org,, they of the despicable ad re: General Patreaus. He now is knee deep in pushing for open borders, not exactly conducive to improving America's security. The NY mosque should not be built because too often Islamic mosques and centers have been centers of terrorism recruiting and planning, (e.g., one in Germany related to the 9/11 hijackers). Even if Islam was not as a whole dedicated to such warfare would not matter. Those mosques, learning centers etc. that are, irrespective of their affiliation, should be shut down and where appropriate, those inciting, planning or encouraging violent acts or those policies inimical to our Constitutional liberties should be, where approrpiate, arrested, tried, convicted, shut down and put away. All the best, Peter Huessy, Potomac, Maryland (geostrategicanalysis@comcast.net should you wish to reply).

Big Peace : Reflections on Casa de Maryland Shed Light on Ground Zero Mosque

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:34:30 +0000

I would certainly include Saudi Arabia as a major financier of terrorism, especially the mosques from which the recruits come and from which Wahhabist Imams preach hatred and violence. And yes the Saudi's co-founded the Taliban with Pakistan's ISI. The point of ranking Syria and Iran is that these two nations either now have or may soon have biological and nuclear weapons which they can give to specially trained/created terror groups to then attack us.

Big Peace : Reflections on Casa de Maryland Shed Light on Ground Zero Mosque

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:34:03 +0000

(Cotninued) Most Moslems want nothing to do with either Wahhabism or Khomeinism, or an Islam that sees itself at war with not only the West and democracy, but civilization itself. Most are, tragically, intimidated from speaking out. I have read Major Coughlin's extraordinary work on Islam and he is essentialy correct--if you want to use Islam as a shield behind which to make war against the rest of the world you can. But you do not have to--you can ignore those proscriptions. Moroccco, Tunisia, the Philippines, and other Muslim majority nations are not at war with us. They do have in many cases Muslim terrorists in their midsts. Some, such as Pakistan, have two-faced institutions such as the ISI which both created the Taliban and also support offensive military operations against some elements of it.

Big Peace : Reflections on Casa de Maryland Shed Light on Ground Zero Mosque

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:33:29 +0000

(Comment continued from above): Ironicaly, OBL said in 1998 he was at war with the US because of our sanctions and no-fly zones against Iraq, claiming we had killed some 500,000 Iraqi children because the sanctions limited health care and nutrition available to that country!! Actually Saddam' son's and thers were selling the health care and nutritional material on the black market!! This same claim is now found to also have been made by the Imam pushing to build the Islamic center near the rubble of the World Trade Center; he says it was "confirmed" by a UN report, and by former Secretary of State Albright! (a "cooked" report if there was ever one!).

Big Peace : Reflections on Casa de Maryland Shed Light on Ground Zero Mosque

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:32:46 +0000

Thanks all for your comments. Specifically some notes: What if there was a state sponsor behind 9/11, as there was re: the 1993 WTC attacks, such as Iraq? Saddam was not acting in the name of Islam but he was hiding behind those who claimed to be doing so. Khalid Sheik Muhammed was the connection between the two attacks and he was many things but certainly not then "religious". State sponsors of terrorism, whether providing weapons, training, sanctuary, or financing are motivated by many things. Saddam was motivated by revenge according to his foreign minister. The Iranians are driven by Khomeinism and a belief that bringing argmegeddon down on our heads will bring the return of the Mahdi. The Soviets were the creator of the PLO and they had no religious motivation at all. Given the strong connections between Communism and Nazism and the Muslim world, (the Nazi's helped create the Baath parties in Syria and Iraq), the motivation also is totalitarian power and riches. Andy McCarthy's new book on this is instructive).