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12-27-2007, 03:36 AM
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=21072&page=1
Flash Back: Huckabee Visits HUMAN EVENTS Part 1
by Human Events
Posted: 12/26/2007
HUMAN EVENTS: Governor, again, thank you very much for joining us. I wanted to start with something that I think you said in the debate the other night that kind of struck me as fairly profound. You said something to the effect that the Taliban believe they brought about the fall of the Soviet Union, and you said something to the effect of: well, you know, it’s not always the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog. And maybe we’ve grossly underestimated the size of the fight in this enemy. One of the things that we’ve been wondering is, is there a better definition of the enemy in this war, then we’ve heard so far? What would be your definition? How would you win the war?
MIKE HUCKABEE: Well to call them radical Islamics or Islamic facists is an appropriate term. What I think a lot of people in the west do not understand is the nature of this war is theological, and therefore it is unlike any other type of war we’re going to fight. If this war were over a border we could negotiate and say if we move the property line here would that be satisfactory? There is nothing we can do to satisfy this enemy, and I think that’s what is perhaps, not really understood.
This is an enemy that believes they are on a mission, as the Blues Brothers would say, a mission from God, and when you can negotiate with another person, but you can’t negotiate with god. It’s an absolute. So the nature of the war being theological means that we are dealing with people from a position of an absolute. And, therefore, any concept of mitigating or ameliorating this great divide is going to get us in trouble, and it will be to our detriment.
What I’m concerned about, in particular, the Democrats seem to have this attitude that if we leave, they’ll leave us alone if we leave them alone. The Ron Paul argument, that’s nonsense. And, it’s a clear indication that he, not just he, but others, have no concept that this is rooted and grounded in a sense of destiny that they believe in as strong as any destiny that’s ever been adhered to. For us, we think of this as a thousand days, they think of it as a thousand years. They’re patient, we’re not. We want a resolution to this, and we’d like to see it in a defined period of time so that the game has a beginning and an ending, more like football. I’ve said this is a baseball game. It’ll be played until there is a winner. And I think that this is a huge mistake that’s being made.
Flash Back: Huckabee Visits HUMAN EVENTS Part 1
by Human Events
Posted: 12/26/2007
HUMAN EVENTS: Governor, again, thank you very much for joining us. I wanted to start with something that I think you said in the debate the other night that kind of struck me as fairly profound. You said something to the effect that the Taliban believe they brought about the fall of the Soviet Union, and you said something to the effect of: well, you know, it’s not always the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog. And maybe we’ve grossly underestimated the size of the fight in this enemy. One of the things that we’ve been wondering is, is there a better definition of the enemy in this war, then we’ve heard so far? What would be your definition? How would you win the war?
MIKE HUCKABEE: Well to call them radical Islamics or Islamic facists is an appropriate term. What I think a lot of people in the west do not understand is the nature of this war is theological, and therefore it is unlike any other type of war we’re going to fight. If this war were over a border we could negotiate and say if we move the property line here would that be satisfactory? There is nothing we can do to satisfy this enemy, and I think that’s what is perhaps, not really understood.
This is an enemy that believes they are on a mission, as the Blues Brothers would say, a mission from God, and when you can negotiate with another person, but you can’t negotiate with god. It’s an absolute. So the nature of the war being theological means that we are dealing with people from a position of an absolute. And, therefore, any concept of mitigating or ameliorating this great divide is going to get us in trouble, and it will be to our detriment.
What I’m concerned about, in particular, the Democrats seem to have this attitude that if we leave, they’ll leave us alone if we leave them alone. The Ron Paul argument, that’s nonsense. And, it’s a clear indication that he, not just he, but others, have no concept that this is rooted and grounded in a sense of destiny that they believe in as strong as any destiny that’s ever been adhered to. For us, we think of this as a thousand days, they think of it as a thousand years. They’re patient, we’re not. We want a resolution to this, and we’d like to see it in a defined period of time so that the game has a beginning and an ending, more like football. I’ve said this is a baseball game. It’ll be played until there is a winner. And I think that this is a huge mistake that’s being made.