Cato has always been a favorite of mine of all the conservative/libertarian blogs. They at least try to be neutral when they issue a study or something.

This policy of constructive disengagement sounds like a good idea. Revolutionary Muslims don't just wake up one day and check their calendar to discover that, praise Allah, it is, indeed, Freedom Hating Day once again and blow up an American building. If we withdraw the things that make them hate us, we'll keep order in the world. Before our friendly trolls point out that I am a cheese-eating surrender monkey, bear in mind that this is not surrender: it's fighting terror by refusing to instigate it. It's not accomodation; it is bombing the thing terrorists find most precious: anger.

To be fair, it might take some time for the feeling of "Hey, we can't blame Clin---America for our problems anymore. It must be something within our society!" to pervade them, and I'm not sure if whatever political party is in charge to implement this policy can convince voters that it will work. America doesn't "do" long term goals very well.

Still, it's a viable alternative to the "invade-anger-lose" paradigm we've set up now.

I said Cato was a blog. I meant think tank.

I'm completely at a loss for thoughts as to what we could do to shift the "burdens" of Middle East hegemony onto Europe. But if I knew what they were, this sounds like precisely the foreign policy we should have--we take care of Central and South America (I'm looking at you, Chavez), and Europe takes care of the wogs.

maybe when we stop beating the dog and stealing it's food, the dog will stop biting us.

If there was someway we could start with the radical muslim clerics...

maybe when we stop beating the dog and stealing it's food, the dog will stop biting us.

No, T2, you just don't understand--all the dog understands is violence. If we were to stop beating the dog, how could we make him/her understand our need for the dog to commit to peace?

It's as I have been saying all along, political ass-kissing and the half-baked world domination fantasy's of overgrown adolescents are no way to run a country, a foreign policy or maintain any place among the citizens of the world.

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Still have to contend with psychopaths such as the indignant jihadis in Britain that imagine the Arabic script for the name of their demon god in the sideways view of a swirl on a Burger King ice cream cone label.

And our own psychos, like Congressman Tancredo, who sees Islamism in the monument to victims of the 9/11 Pennsylvania plane crash site. Idiocy knows no religion.

Cato has always been a favorite of mine of all the conservative/libertarian blogs. They at least try to be neutral when they issue a study or something.Posted by DukeRevolution
If you think that CATO is neutral, you are delusional. They are as neutral as the RNC. They were initially funded by Richard Schaife and their funding still comes from right wing kooks. Their Social Security position papers are famous for being erroneous disinformation.

...imagine the Arabic script for the name of their demon god in the sideways view of a swirl on a Burger King ice cream cone label.Posted by Bendito
I presume you have no problems with purported images of another demon religion being hawked on e-bay?

"They at least try to be neutral when they issue a study or something." Posted by DukeRevolution

Take note of the key term "try." And this is compared to places like Heritage or AEI. Honestly, I think I was thinking of RAND Corp. at the time. For some strange reason, those names seem to tie up in my head.

And if I may be so blunt, Islam's god is the same as your oh-so-holy god, Benny, and the same as in the Jewish religion. Personally, if he exists, I don't think he appreciates being summoned into (sorta) political arguments.

Well, bendito is a Perl script, so it's not really fair to hold him to the moral standards we apply to people.