From the hangar deck of the John C. Stennis, Dick Cheney, the man who put the un- in undisclosed location, issued another dire warning:
Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants believe they can wear us down, break our will, force us out and make Iraq a safe haven for terror. They see Iraq as the center of a new caliphate, from which they can stir extremism and violence throughout the region, and eventually carry out devastating attacks against the United States and others.I am as pleased as the next caucasian that there is peace at last between the Green and the Orange, but this much-repeated doomsay is a little like accusing the Lutheran World Federation, the Primate of All England, and Pope Ratso Rizzo of colluding toward the reestablishment of the unitary apostolic seat of Leo X. Nah gunnahappen.
Personally, I think this is deeply ineffectual scaremongering. I suspect that most Americans, on hearing words like caliph and sultan and emir, picture first images from Disey's Alladin.
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Cheney is speaking to the converted here. The 28% no-lifer lip-frothers who sit listening to their Rush Limbaugh tapes all day. They know what 'caliph' really means - "Satanic terrorist that hates our freedums."
Ah, it seems Darth Cheney was checking on the progress of the new Death Star. Hopefully this one has not the same major design flaw as the last one.
can't remember where I read it, but someone who examined the whole issue whether there was a real plan for a caliphate had to conclude, that there was none, as there was little interest in creating institutions that could support a viable state. It's one thing to have a "training camp" feeding off a failed state quite another to make an empire out of it.
'Disey' needs to grow back that missing 'n'. And I'm pretty sure the moving picture show you refer to is actually spelled Aladdin... pretty sure because I own a copy and I just glanced to my right, over towards the rack where the DVDs live, and confirmed it.
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