I must agree, Europe is history.
The US and a few other nations (very few) will need to do what they can to stop from being anhiliated.
The will to fight is seemingly absent, and prospects don't look good.
Posted on 02/07/2006 4:32:31 AM PST by spkpls4
It is easy to terrorise people. Just tell them that you will kill them and most people tend to shut up. Sometimes it does not work. This is the case with people who have made the motto of the great state of New Hampshire – “Live Free or die” – their own.
“Terrorism only works when people agree to live in fear,” a Brussels Journal reader wrote to me last week. She is not entirely right. Terrorists have a fall-back strategy when dealing with brave people who value freedom above their own lives. The terrorists just threaten to kill others. Indeed, it is one thing for the morally upright to stand for their own principles and be prepared to die for them, but quite another to realize that others will have to die for them. Many heroic people are tender-hearted, but the terrorists are neither. The real martyr is prepared to die so that others may live free, but not to let others die so that he may live free.
Last week it looked as if the threats of Muslim fanatics against European media defending their freedom of speech might have strengthened the latter’s resolve. Now that the fanatics are taking it out on Christians in the Middle East – killing priests, torching churches and taking Lebanon to the brink of civil war, all because of twelve drawings in Denmark – people are beginning to wonder whether our freedom is worth the lives of all these innocents. Perhaps the answer is “no.”
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bookmarked the site. ty
I must agree, Europe is history.
The US and a few other nations (very few) will need to do what they can to stop from being anhiliated.
The will to fight is seemingly absent, and prospects don't look good.
I'm curious, do many Europeans read The Brussels Journal?
this site is one that I visit daily to find out what is going on in Europe
Way past time.
We can start by turning our men into men, and let the girly boys play with the women.
We can start by turning our men into men, and let the girly boys play with the women...
er, can't we do both?
As soon as I hit the "send" button, I realized I had worded that poorly. ;)
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the renowned Belgian cartoon award of the international “Knokke Humor Festival” yesterday awarded its first prize to a cartoon depicting a yawning Christ above the bed of an elderly couple lying with their backs to each other. Asked for a reaction to this cartoon, the Archbishop of Brussels, Belgian Cardinal Godfried Danneels, communicated through his spokesman: “We should be able to laugh at ourselves from time to time so that we do not take ourselves too seriously.”Asked whether this self-relativization does not apply to Islam and the Danish cartoons, the Cardinal’s spokesman told the press: “One does not mock the essence of someone’s faith. It is forbidden to depict the prophet. If you do, what’s more with a bomb in his turban, then that is a provocation. Just look at the violent reactions. The cardinal does not condone this violence, but he believes our own freedom has its bounds.”
So the crucifix is not the "essence of someone's faith," but the violent warlord Mohammed is. Thank you for the clarification, your most dhimmi eminence.
Or when the people allow their government to exploit that fear.
Amen. just that phrase alone is worth living by
"It is definitely time to start building up our military resources... World war is coming."
Way past time.
We can start by turning our men into men, and let the girly boys play with the women
Perfectly well said!
Meaning our government is exploiting the terrorism bit? Or am I miss reading you.
I'm just saying that politicians have a tendency to use fear to justify increasing the cost and size of government. People are much more compliant when they're scared.
Fear?
Like the fear that Social Security is bankrupt and is being ignored by Congress?
Like the fear that the government (taxpayers) needs to pay for everyones health care?
Like the fear that unless the taxpayers pay billions in foreign aid the U.S.A. will be eaten alive by Her enemies?
Like the fear that Homeland Security is using warrantless searches to keep ahead of another 9/11 incident, while our freedoms are being eroded?
That kind of fear?
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