Nihilism!

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Lt. Col. Ralph Peters is being interviewed the other day on the Michael Savage radio show:

Colonel Peters is a prolific author:

* Writes books.

* Has a column in the New York Post.

* Writes numerous articles on the military, military strategy and the Global War on Terror [GWOT].

* Does a lot of interviews for various media.

Colonel Peters is a man whose thoughts and ideas are sought out by military planners and futurists.

[read some articles by Ralph Peters by clicking here.]

Colonel Peters during his career was at the forefront of trying to predict what the future of war would be like. An attempt to foresee the future and prepare accordingly. NOT an easy task.

During the interview with Michael Savage, the Colonel reflects upon:

* The war the Israel just fought with Hezbollah. Peters evidently met just a week ago with top Israeli general officers. The consensus among the latter is that THE WAR IN LEBANON DID NOT GO IN FAVOR OF ISRAEL. Media be damned. Hearing this from someone of the stature of Ralph Peters gives credence to some of my previous blog entries concerning this latest "war".

* Peters is also becoming pessimistic regarding the war in Iraq. Was once at optimist. NOW feels that the sectarian violence between Sunni and Shia is OUT OF CONTROL. Peters suggests that we gather together to the top leaders from both factions and tell them the U.S. gives them one year to get their act together. If they do not get their act together, in one year, POOF, the U.S. should get out of Iraq immediately!!

CNN is also running a Christiane Amanpour interview with a woman who WAS a wife of an Al Qaeda terrorist. Evidently a man who sat at the right-hand of Osama himself.

This woman is NOW a widow??

The jihadi widow complains of life with Osama. The jihadi in Afghan and Pakistan is famous for keeping their wives and children around them at all times. This jihadi widow seems to have been no exception. Life with Osama appears to be grim:

* Living in mud hovels with windows, but no glass in the window.

* Living without toilets.

* Just plain living in squalid, deplorable conditions, period!!

Well, what is to be expected?? Nothing more than that. Such a life style is not only tolerated by the jihadi, it is cherished. As I have said before, heaven on earth for the jihadi is to wander in the desert for forty days and forty nights, subsisting on dates and water. And NO WOMEN around either. Just camels.

[a jihadi wife would be responsible for the three K's. Kitchen, kids, and kissing. And not too much of the latter. "Hey woman, put that food on the table". Of course, they sit on the floor when they eat, don't they!!]

In this regard, the modern jihadi is to a certain extent a nihilist, regardless of what they say. Don't just want to reform the current system, they want to destroy the current system without offering a real alternative!!

"ni·hil·ism ( P ) Pronunciation Key (n-lzm, n-)
n.

Rejection of all distinctions in moral or religious value and a willingness to repudiate all previous theories of morality or religious belief.

The belief that destruction of existing political or social institutions is necessary for future improvement.

Also.

Nihilism. A diffuse, revolutionary movement of mid 19th-century Russia that scorned authority and tradition and believed in reason, materialism, and radical change in society and government through terrorism and assassination."

Some Arab Prince is reputed to have said:

"My grandfather rode a camel, my father drove a car, I fly a plane, my grandson will ride a camel!!"

That says it all!!

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