God Holds Us Responsible For What We Do With His Word
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I've had some interesting discussions lately regarding governments.

So thinking about it today I realized that a government only has two real roles.

To Protect and to Provide. Provide is easy. It provides education and welf...

I do not have a Hemmingway nor a Faulkner pressing my mind at the moment for you, because I am overcome with a feeling that is very foreign to me. It is overwhelming. It is raw. It is good. The feeling for which I am referring is Friendship.

This brings to mind the Muslim doctors arrested in the UK car bomb plot. So much for the poverty =terrorism formula concocted by liberal apologists for jihad.From Debbie Schlussel via LGF. Houssein Zorkot, a third-year medical student at Wayne State...

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Any attempt to stop the release of these records of Hillary Clinton as First Lady should be taken as evidence of malfeasance on her part, and therefore held to be a disqualifier for her as a presidential candidate. An estimated......

After all, anything to slander patriots and undermine the military. The New York Times dramatically slashed its normal rates for a full-page advertisement for MoveOn.org's ad questioning the integrity of Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forc...

There was no organization called Al Qaeda in Iraq before the invasion. Saddam Hussein's regime was a highly centralized government over which Hussein exerted the strongest possible control. You could say that Saddam's regime was the terrorist organization, but there was no Al Qaeda. Saddam would not have stood for any organization that he could not control or that stood outside his government.

I just don't understand why this point is still even being argued. Even official government reports have said that Al Qaeda was not in Iraq before the invasion. An entire array of Middle East experts, intelligence professionals, etc., have said unequivocally there was no Al Qaeda in Iraq before the invasion.

I don't understand this collective insanity that continues to insist that Al Qaeda was operating in Iraq while Saddam Hussein was in power.

I rather doubt these people are going to go lead productive lives when American forces leave, however.

Probably not. And I don't know that anybody has said they are. That's not a reason for staying, though.

Many in the blogosphere questioned what, if any, involvement the United States had in the recent terror bust of al-Qaeda members in Germany. From this Spiegel Online report, it appears the US was in on this from the beginning: It...

Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda -- the Al Qaeda that was responsible for the attack on the World Trade Center, is not the same organization as Al Qaeda in Iraq. Two entirely different groups.

AQ means "the base." It's a lose umbrella organization for Islamists and has been since the beginning. It was cobbled together from existing groups with their own agendas; OBL unified them into going after the West first. AQI/AQM is very much part of that movement.

The whole point here is that we would not have to BE fighting Al Qaeda in Iraq if we had not invaded Iraq, because Al Qaeda in Iraq did not exist until AFTER we invaded Iraq.

That's not quite the case. True, Zarqawi changed his group's name to AQM after the invasion for branding purposes. It predated the invasion, however.

It is true, though, that the invasion acted as a magnet for jihadists. I rather doubt these people are going to go lead productive lives when American forces leave, however.