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How does turning a hemmed-in secular dictatorship into a hotbed and of — and recruiting cause for — anti-Western religious-fundamentalist terrorism make us safer?

Quite amazing that there are counter-protesters who will show up in support of that belief.

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Gathering of Weasels

Oh, er, Eagles. And not the Iggles, either.

God, these people are tiresome [DCOW]. I wouldn't put it past them to trash the Vietnam Wall either (which orginally the wingers hated because it wasn't heroic or some damn thing but now has been magically transmuted into the national icon it has always been, except in their minds, by the operation of...

Oh, gawd, I'm so tired. They don't have any money or any clout or any membership, so their only hope is a provocation that the wingosphere can start another Circle Jerk of Outrage with. It is all so tiresome and stupid and dull and predictable.

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