Also, who the fuck is Trent Gowdy?How President Gowdy Solved the Middle East Problem
Back in 2021, right after Trey Gowdy’s inauguration, Muslims at first fled away from the cities of Mecca and Medina on the Arabian peninsula, because they generally sensed what was coming. And they sensed correctly–Gowdy blasted those places to smithereens with a dual nuclear bomb strike.
Immediately, of course, Muslims across the globe rioted and struck as hard as they could at any and all possible targets–both military and civilian, particularly in Western cities–with their suicide bombs, automatic weapons, arson, assassinations, and various other tactics.
The carnage around the globe was extensive and awful, however not nearly as bad as it might have been had not Western populations and governments already become so fed up, overall, with Islamic aggression and terrorism that they’d been doing a lot of prevention and pre-emptive preparation. An almost universal, lightning-fast crackdown minimized the death toll.
Police and military units deployed everywhere at top speed in the immediate aftermath of Gowdy’s devastation of the ultimate Islamic “holy” sites, and the enraged, foaming-at-the-mouth Muslims who massed in the streets of Western cities in response were unceremoniously mowed down by tactical units using whatever means necessary–drone strikes, helicopter gunships, mechanized and armored squads, you name it.
Problematic Muslim clerics and known jihad ringleaders living in Western countries, along with their already watchlisted followers and lesser-recognized adherents, were ruthlessly rounded up without a moment’s delay–not only by official units and personnel, but equally by citizen militias and vigilantes who realized an almost uniform, unwritten, across-the-board de facto deputation status. No one in any official capacity whatsoever even contemplated objecting to ordinary civilians joining in the effort to contain and defeat, with extreme prejudice, the imminent Islamic threat. Those jihadis who mounted any kind of fight to try to avoid being taken into custody were just killed instantly by overwhelming force. Numerous hostages, most unfortunately, were sometimes lost when their Islamic hostage-takers were summarily and hastily obliterated, lest the enemy think such a tactic would in any way further their jihad by weakening our resolve.
It was beneficial that so many governments had already undertaken the process of cleaning house with regard to the Islamic problem. Things had escalated so much and for so long that everyone in their right minds simply knew without a doubt that a modern Crusade was not only necessary, but was moreover the highest moral priority for civilized societies who wished to survive, in the end, against the sustained and savage aggression and violent onslaught waged increasingly for so many decades by bloodthirsty Muslim hordes.
Gowdy’s gambit of strikes against Mecca and Medina was, on the surface, symbolic, however it was extremely effective and ingenious in the strategic realm.
What took place after the strikes was exactly what Gowdy and his generals had anticipated, and the fact that they so carefully planned for the result, and for subsequent actions, is what made their strategy so brilliant.
As expected, and as the radioactive dust was still settling, it wasn’t long before virtually millions of Muslim warriors swarmed toward Mecca from around the world. Obviously, they saw the freshly vaporized site as that much more of a sacred rallying point; as the place to coalesce and “make their stand” for Islam, as Western forces maneuvered and feigned–pretending as if to want to move into, seize, hold, and occupy the Muslims’ holy wasteland.
Being mostly the regressive, inbred spawn of marriages between cousins (prevailing practice in Islamic societies), the Mohammedan armies just weren’t that bright to begin with–but now they seemed to glow that much more with the fervor of rabid, wild-eyed, screaming Islamic religiosity as they stupidly flocked and teemed en masse to the poisonously toxic area where the nuclear warheads had hit home.
That easily forecasted, brainless rush toward Mecca (in the immediate aftermath of the U.S. nuclear strike) by legions of the most hyper-rabid Islamic mujahideen from all corners of the globe accomplished two key goals: First, their aforementioned exposure to whatever degree of radioactive fallout, which need not really be explained in terms of its advantage to the civilized world. Second, it gave Gowdy’s generals and their allied counterparts from friendly countries such easy, ready targets, all assembled in one big sandbox, for continued tactical elimination, that it was very soon that the “soldiers of Allah” collectively realized their mistake. Almost all of them were basically wiped out in a matter of days, primarily from above.
Gowdy first deliberately drew them into the killing field, then killed them.
Once the non-Muslim world actually took the Muslim world up on its long-standing practice of all-out war, the war ended rather quickly.
It didn’t take long at all for the message to sink in, in the minds of Muslim leaders and followers worldwide: The paper tiger had burned up, replaced by a real tiger.
Try as the ayatollahs, muftis, sheiks, clerics, and would-be caliphs might, to rally the troops for ongoing and endless jihad against the infidels, they were beaten back and beaten down by every kind of laser-guided hellfire munition imaginable–until many of the remaining mosques began to be converted into Christian churches by desperate goatherders and merchants seeking a better way. Imams either fled, or shed their dirty nightshirts and traded them in for Joel Osteen designer togs, heeding the begging and beseeching of their communities’ plaintive pleas for a new chance at life, and renunciation of Islam in hopes that the laser-precision bombs and missiles might cease.
Pakistan’s nukes weren’t even part of the equation once Israel took them out (along with the Pakis’ almost entire command and control systems), simultaneous to Gowdy’s having blasted the black stone cube of Mecca into mere metaphysical “carbon credits” toward the heating and air conditioning costs of keeping Barack Hussein Obama housed in U.S. federal prison, according of course to the comforts befitting a convicted former American president.
Very few American servicemen’s lives or limbs were jeopardized or lost during the final decisive campaign to defeat Mohammedanism; almost none, in fact, compared with other global conflicts in recent history. All it took, really, was the will to use the tools at our disposal, to end an existential threat to us and to our children.
As for Islam, they still practice it in cults and sectors throughout the Middle East, and elsewhere around the world, but mainly it’s discussed in history books, and in articles online. Not too many surviving denizens of even its birthplace are interested in being associated with such a failed, vanquished, disreputable, and notoriously depraved ideology. Like Nazism, and like the doomed, kamikaze emperor-worship of Imperial Japan of the last century, it’s been sent to the dustbin where it belongs.
It’s unfortunate that so many people who were guilty of nothing more than having been bred into mere supporting roles in Islam had to die to bring the war to a close, but it’s that much more fortunate that so many millions, even billions in posterity, will live free from Islam’s shackles and bloodthirsty reach.
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Re: Did Shep get a website?
That story is so stupid that it should be in Stuart's wacky Americafic.
Also DA, Gowdy is a congressman who is on the Benghazi committee.
Also DA, Gowdy is a congressman who is on the Benghazi committee.
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This isn't tacticool enough to be Shep's doing. What kind of bombers dropped what kind of nukes and conventional munitions on them?
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So.. a pro genocide congressman. I don't see how this will affect his reelect chances.
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This is like the soggy biscuit of right-wing wankfests. I'm at a loss for words.
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And shep already has a website: http://www.alternatewars.com/
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Shep was a quality contributor to this board.
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Not even that. It's fantasy wankfic written by someone who apparently supports him, but does not necessarily reflect the views of the Congressman himself. From what can be quickly seen, Gowdy is not affiliated with that site at all.Mr Bean wrote:So.. a pro genocide congressman. I don't see how this will affect his reelect chances.
So he is to be given a pass on this one. By all accounts he is an asshat of the first order, but he is not guilty of what one of his fans has written.
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Sometimes it really bothers me how divorced the average voter can be from reality.
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Great article. It's so ironic too, because those "stupid" Muslims invented the Algebra/Comp-sci fundamentals we needed to make all those "laser guided ammunitions" that this guy is jerking off to.
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Thats not ironic.
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I'd like to second the part where the thread title is an insult to Shep.
While I will not deny the man's nukophilia, writing something like this takes massive, raging ignorance of... honestly, just about everything in the world that isn't within fifty yards of one's own front porch. The firm conviction that 'Islamics' are raving, frothing, maniacal, inbred untermenschen, the deranged conspiracy theories about Obama... he actually doesn't go in for any of that shit.
While I will not deny the man's nukophilia, writing something like this takes massive, raging ignorance of... honestly, just about everything in the world that isn't within fifty yards of one's own front porch. The firm conviction that 'Islamics' are raving, frothing, maniacal, inbred untermenschen, the deranged conspiracy theories about Obama... he actually doesn't go in for any of that shit.
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Yeah. Shep would post a few trollish things every now and then (OK, perhaps more than a few), but he didn't seem to have a serious anti-Muslim hard-on. He was more conservative than many others here and had some decided biases but on the whole he was honest and didn't take his attitudes too seriously. He wasn't dumb, is the main thing. The person who wrote this... is. It's nothing more than 1920s White-Power drivel updated for the 2010's by some racist Tealiban who doesn't give a shit about the community of nations outside the United States.
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It's been a while, but I swear there was a running joke about Shep wanting to nuke the Middle East. 

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It's hilarious how the author thinks that blowing up Mecca and Medina is an awesome tactical strategy. I hope the USA still isn't dependent on Riyadh for their fucking energy by 2021 when "President Trey" decides to nuke two mostly tactically irrelevant Middle Eastern cities. And I'm sure Russia and China will just sit by twiddling their thumbs while all this goes down...
Anyway, why even bother nuking the Mideast? Just wait for Jesus to come back after the Rapture and everything will be A-Okay.
Anyway, why even bother nuking the Mideast? Just wait for Jesus to come back after the Rapture and everything will be A-Okay.
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Dominus Atheos wrote:It's been a while, but I swear there was a running joke about Shep wanting to nuke the Middle East.
I belive the joke was that nuke's where Shep's go to solution for post problems, up to and including a lack of tin opener
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Shep's story is way better than this bullshit. I'm so sad he never got to finish it (or did he?).
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Do you mean Stuart, Stas?
As for this fanfic writer/stalker in the making, Mr. Growdy should make sure that fellow isn't hiding in his closet at night/hacking his phone/stealing his laundry.
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I think it was Lord Shaithis who used to be Grand Admiral Prawn who wanted to nuke Mecca. I seem to recall Jadeite coming close to that line of thinking as well.Dominus Atheos wrote:It's been a while, but I swear there was a running joke about Shep wanting to nuke the Middle East.
Shep would mention that its doable to nuke the ME and achieve "satisfactory military outcomes" ie kill most people even if not 100% and he does believe in killing an idea by killing their adherents. However I don't think he actually advocated doing that per se.
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No, I mean Shep.Pelranius wrote:Do you mean Stuart, Stas?
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Now see, there's something I don't get with these kinds of stories. Islam has been around for something like 1500 years, and has spent a good chunk of those being richer and mightier than Christian Europe. If Muslims were a swarm of Tyranids (hyperaggressive, savage and utterly unified like a beehive), how the fuck are non-Muslims still alive? And if they are so weak you can just stomp them all down, how the fuck did they survive for 1500 years?
I've read the term 'quantum competence' somewhere, and I think it fits: The Enemy (don't even pretend it isn't capitalized) exists simultaneously between the states of 'strong enough to crush you like an ant' and 'so weak they only exist at your sufferance'. That's mostly part of fascism, but you really find it everywhere: it's a good explanation of the appeal that fascism holds to people, because they already operate on intuition and gut feeling and, if given the chance, pounce on an ideology that articulates what they already 'know' about the world.
I've read the term 'quantum competence' somewhere, and I think it fits: The Enemy (don't even pretend it isn't capitalized) exists simultaneously between the states of 'strong enough to crush you like an ant' and 'so weak they only exist at your sufferance'. That's mostly part of fascism, but you really find it everywhere: it's a good explanation of the appeal that fascism holds to people, because they already operate on intuition and gut feeling and, if given the chance, pounce on an ideology that articulates what they already 'know' about the world.
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cOld. People are seriously discussing this? I saw variations of this text years ago, when it used to be a wankery how after-Bush Repub president will "finish the job".
Of course, then the unknown unelectable guy from Chicago decided to enter the primaries...
Though, it's not like Islam was alone in its quest of destroying knowledge and science. Christianity also did its fair share, destroying as much or even more unique cultures and scientific thoughts as worthless and backwards. Other religions, too. Frankly, the irony in the OP is that inbred idiot who wrote this nuclear wankery is pretty much the closest thing West had to the most backwards parts of Islam he so despises
Of course, then the unknown unelectable guy from Chicago decided to enter the primaries...

Please. I know that is mostly intended as comeback at right-wing stupidity, but if you look at almost all prominent Islamic scholars, you will find most of them were produced by old, developed cultures that started to decline after Islamic conquest. Biographies of people whose names given base to words like algebra, algorithm, or alchemy, show that most were indifferent to religion or even, like possibly Ibn al-Rawandi, were one of the first proponents of reason and atheism. Really pious ones are minority, which I guess isn't very surprising as they would go become priests memorizing Koran instead.Channel72 wrote:Great article. It's so ironic too, because those "stupid" Muslims invented the Algebra/Comp-sci fundamentals we needed to make all those "laser guided ammunitions" that this guy is jerking off to.
Though, it's not like Islam was alone in its quest of destroying knowledge and science. Christianity also did its fair share, destroying as much or even more unique cultures and scientific thoughts as worthless and backwards. Other religions, too. Frankly, the irony in the OP is that inbred idiot who wrote this nuclear wankery is pretty much the closest thing West had to the most backwards parts of Islam he so despises

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There's a certain primal fear of monsters wired into humans, which makes sense because we evolved in a world with many things that were too powerful for any person to beat individually.Dr. Trainwreck wrote:Now see, there's something I don't get with these kinds of stories. Islam has been around for something like 1500 years, and has spent a good chunk of those being richer and mightier than Christian Europe. If Muslims were a swarm of Tyranids (hyperaggressive, savage and utterly unified like a beehive), how the fuck are non-Muslims still alive? And if they are so weak you can just stomp them all down, how the fuck did they survive for 1500 years?
I've read the term 'quantum competence' somewhere, and I think it fits: The Enemy (don't even pretend it isn't capitalized) exists simultaneously between the states of 'strong enough to crush you like an ant' and 'so weak they only exist at your sufferance'. That's mostly part of fascism, but you really find it everywhere: it's a good explanation of the appeal that fascism holds to people, because they already operate on intuition and gut feeling and, if given the chance, pounce on an ideology that articulates what they already 'know' about the world.
But there's also a primal sense of power in the idea that we can triumph over the monsters if only we do X, where X is... easy. Just a simple resolution to a difficult problem.
The desire for weakstrong enemies comes out of this. We want the primal thrill of imagining that our enemies are strong, clever, ubiquitous and inescapable... but we also want the primal thrill of imagining that we can make them go away by doing as we're told.
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I see, *tries to remember which story that was*Stas Bush wrote:No, I mean Shep.Pelranius wrote:Do you mean Stuart, Stas?
Simon Jester: I believed Umberto Eco wrote of that fascist dilemma (he was talking about the Fascists, but I think it applies to a lot of reactionary movements around the world), noting that Mussolini would both attack the English as warmongering imperialists, while also scoffing at the English tendency to have six meals a day.
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Indeed. One of the reasons the early Muslim caliphates were so successful culturally and scientifically was because of how "loose" (for lack of a better word) Muslim control over the population was. That is, the early caliphs were incredibly tolerant towards non-Muslims by necessity, because the empire was simply too large for them to have any hope of really governing directly. Most territories continued to operate as they had for hundreds of years, only with a different nominal ruler. The (relative) lack of warfare within the boundaries of the caliphate engendered the type of travel and economic activity that allowed for prosperity. Tolerance of non-Muslims allowed for the growth of scientific, mathematical, and other thought.Irbis wrote: Please. I know that is mostly intended as comeback at right-wing stupidity, but if you look at almost all prominent Islamic scholars, you will find most of them were produced by old, developed cultures that started to decline after Islamic conquest. Biographies of people whose names given base to words like algebra, algorithm, or alchemy, show that most were indifferent to religion or even, like possibly Ibn al-Rawandi, were one of the first proponents of reason and atheism. Really pious ones are minority, which I guess isn't very surprising as they would go become priests memorizing Koran instead.
In later years (IIRC under the Abbasids, though the timeline of the Muslim caliphates can be extremely confusing), the Muslim rulers began to take more direct control of the territories as a means of staving off rival caliphs (e.g. the Fatimids, etc.) within the empire, not to mention fighting external powers (e.g. Christians). As a result, the Golden Age of Middle Eastern culture and science began to decline dramatically. By the late Middle Ages Islam had been just as damaging as Christianity with respect to intellectual progress.
(EDIT: As a bit of a disclaimer, I am basing this entirely off of my memory of the book, "The Caliph's Splendor", which talks about this topic in detail. I may be getting the exact timeline wrong. Regardless, the general trend is roughly as I described).