should we be afraid?

I came across this on Fox News.


Fox Guest: Rand Paul Must Prove He’d Nuke a Muslim Country if We Needed
by Andrew Kirell | 11:33 am, April 7th, 2015
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On Monday morning, Fox & Friends held a lively debate between Brad and Dallas Woodhouse, the modern (and very much bloodless) political equivalent of Civil War “brother against brother” battles.

Brad is a Democratic consultant and the head of American Bridge PAC; Dallas is a Republican strategist and founder of Carolina Rising. The siblings once reached minor fame when they were interrupted by a phone call from their mother during their dramatic C-SPAN battle.

For their joint Monday morning Fox appearance, the pair debated this very Fox & Friendsian question: “Which GOP contender has the Democrats most afraid?” And when the subject turned to Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) — seen by GOP foreign policy hawks as too non-interventionist — here’s what Republican Woodhouse had to say:

sort of worldview may not be fitting the world as a lot of people see it right now. He’s got to prove — in my opinion, Rand Paul’s got to prove that he will nuke a Muslim country if we have to. I’m not saying we should. But I’m saying we will do that if it takes saving America and that there’s no doubt that he will do what it takes to protect America.
“Thank God you’re not running for president,” Democratic Woodhouse said in response.

The blog Crooks & Liars picked up on the clip and just when you’d expect the conservative Woodhouse to suggest the famously liberal website took him out of context, he followed up on Facebook with an affirmation of his views:

“Damn right I said it,” he declared. “I of course meant that Rand Paul has to win over the American (and republican primary) voters on national security. At its core the GOP is a National Security Party. Period. We are not the blame America first crowd. That is my brothers side, not mine.”

“We don’t like war, I don’t like war. We hate war,” he continued. “However we need a POTUS who will do WHATEVER it takes to protect America and her friends including Israel. I never want to see another Nuke used, but If We HAD to like in WW2 then so be it. I want a President willing to keep the option of Nuking the enemy on the table rather than letting THEM get the bomb to terrorize us and threaten and possibility destroy Israel as we know it.”

He concluded: “America First. Whatever it takes. No matter what.”

(Quick question from your humble writer: How does one *prove* you’d nuke a Muslim country? Just say it three times and it magically becomes so?)

Watch the original clip below, via Fox News:(don't know how to upload it or I would have, but you can go to Fox news and get it.)

This is not my choice, nor would I wish it to be, but given the fact that it is being talked about perhaps we should be aware? Now tell me, must we? Or must we not?
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is this ur pad in Minisoda? dunno
"We (Republicans? roll eyes ) don't like war...We hate war." liar
rolling on the floor laughingrolling on the floor laughingrolling on the floor laughing

cowboy
Cut/Paste-Web Search:

> YouTube War Is A Racket by Smedley Butler <

USMC Major General Butler was a two time recipient of the Medal of Honor.
It may be presumed he knew whereof he wrote.

cowboy
Hello G. you can say that...

Hi Mic...what a joke...indeed...rolling on the floor laughing rolling on the floor laughing frustrated
Last time I heard, they are the proponents of the most profitable venture...but you know it is justified? frustrated frustrated
roll eyes ^
(How the hell did THAT happen?? confused)

cowboy
Hi my friend P,

Mic, I couldn't agree with you more! Look at history! That is how a party/s or person/s comes to power.

I firmly believe Obama is creating a huge mess in the middle-east that the next POTUS will have to deal with or clean up!thumbs up
That's what I'm afraid of, Jim! hole

uh oh
DANG!!!...Looks like it's workin' on me, too!!! blues
devil Tricky devils, aren't they? very mad
uh oh

cowboy
Cut/Paste - Web Search:

> YouTube Blood and Oil: The Middle East in World War I <

cowboy
......."Fluffa Nut".................detective
Hello there Luke. Me neither.
dunno
...You asked.

cowboy
lind
Seems like Dallas W. is losing his marbles so to speak...since when does Rand Paul have to prove anything?...seems far fetched that the Woodhouse would demand that kind of "proof"...how would he get it?...lol...fear has been a tool in this debate...that is the problem...there was an article about how Harper...the PM of Canada is using this "fear" to win the Canadian public...This reported from the paper...The Ottawa Citizen...

Liberal leader Justin Trudeau this week made perhaps the boldest move of his political career — one that could rally Canadians to his side in the upcoming election, or merely solidify the support that Prime Minister Stephen Harper is counting on for re-election.

In an evening speech to a Toronto audience on Monday, Trudeau accused Harper of deliberately fostering fear and prejudice against Muslims.

He took direct aim at Harper for using a public appearance last month in Quebec — where religious accommodation is a hot-button issue — to severely criticize those who want to wear the niqab, a religious garment that covers the face, at citizenship ceremonies.

Trudeau ridiculed as a “cruel joke” Harper’s explanation that he wants to liberate Muslim women from oppression.

“We all know what is going on here,” said Trudeau. “It is nothing less than an attempt to play on people’s fears and foster prejudice,
directly toward the Muslim faith.”


I find it hard to believe that the Canadian PM is in fact "worried" about women in general or wanting to capitalize on fear...what do you think?...
Lindsy -

Perhaps title shouldn't be
"Should We Be Afraid?"
but...
"Of What Should We Be Afraid?"

tip hat
Thanks for a most thought-provoking & informative blog.
I only wish to high heaven this could've gotten infinitely greater circulation than a short-lived & little-viewed CS blog. sad flower

cowboy
I've seen film footage of Gen. Butler.
He looks a little bit & sounds a LOT like R. Lee Ermey!

Perhaps we need a feature film on Gen. Butler...
with R. Lee in the title role! grin

The Gunny portrays the General. laugh

cowboy
I think the only Hollywood movie that even approached it as a semi-serious plot was the old Kirk Douglas 7 days in May. But of course they were 33 years off in the when of it..
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