Mark Steyn: These guys want to kill us anyway

The Weekend Australian ^ | March 15, 2004 | Mark Steyn

[twntaipan]

Or you can stick your head in the sand and paint a burqa on your butt. But they'll blow it up anyway. Maybe Steyn's best line ever!

[Gaetano]

......or you can let the terrorists dictate who runs your government, as they are trying to do in Spain.

[cripplecreek]

"THE bombs dropped on Baghdad exploded in Madrid!"

The holder of that sign should ask one simple question. "Why were AQ sleeper cells in Spain to begin with?"

[Lurker]

"We are not fighting so that you will offer us something. We are fighting to eliminate you."

Worth remembering.

L

[Rutabega]

Ping!

[Condor51]

Oh WOW, this is really, r-e-a-l-l-y weird!

When I woke up this morning and was thinking about the bombing in Spain, I was also thinking about the paradox that while Columbus was sailing in 1492 and 'europe was enlightened', a good portion of Spain was STILL under Muslim rule. Then wah-la Steyn writes this article and, "the tragedy of Andalusia" – that is, the end of Muslim rule in Spain in 1492."

There MUST be a meaning to this?!? Maybe I better get my tin-foil beanie on FAST. Steyn must be communicating with my brain. OR maybe I have ESP?!?

Now where's that tin-foil....

[Redcoat LI]

"THE bombs dropped on Baghdad exploded in Madrid!" Looks like the left has alredy surrendered.

[mathluv]

dittos!!!

[syriacus]

Remember the phrase "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute"?

Mohammedans have practiced "divide and conquer" on the Western world before. And the US attempts to form a coalition met with limited success, because (as now) some European countries preferred to appease the Mohammedans.

America and the Barbary Pirates: An International Battle Against an Unconventional Foe, by Gerard W. Gawalt (the manuscript specialist for early American history in the Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.)

Ruthless, unconventional foes are not new to the United States of America. More than two hundred years ago the newly established United States made its first attempt to fight an overseas battle to protect its private citizens by building an international coalition against an unconventional enemy. Then the enemies were pirates and piracy. The focus of the United States and a proposed international coalition was the Barbary Pirates of North Africa. [snip]

Jefferson's plan for an international coalition foundered on the shoals of indifference and a belief that it was cheaper to pay the tribute than fight a war.

[Lion in Winter]

Hey, check out the hamas sympathizer with the rag around his neck in thr front row. What nerve.

El Cid! Calling El Cid.....

[uncbob]

Spain needs another Charlton Heston ( El Cid )

[baseballmom]

...But not these fellows. They're still settling scores from the 15th century.

That's what makes them so nuts.

[68skylark]

Steyn is always great.

Despite the sneers that terrorism is a phenomenon and you can't wage war against a phenomenon, in fact you can – as the Royal Navy did very successfully against the malign phenomena of an earlier age, piracy and slavery.

Good point. And the U. S. Navy was formed for similar reasons, back when what we now call "Islamic terrorism" was Islamic "piracy." This has been our battle for over 200 years, and it's likely to go on for a long time to come.

[snooker]

As one of the Islamic fanatics who inspired al-Qa'eda said: "We are not trying to negotiate with you. We are trying to destroy you."

[Right_in_Virginia]

Or you can stick your head in the sand and paint a burqa on your butt. But they'll blow it up anyway.

A classic.

[Casloy]

All this terrorism will end when one of two things have happened: Either we have killed all of them, or the ones we haven't killed get tired of dying. To quote Bush, "you're either with us or against us." It is so classic leftist mentality to never blame the person who tries to kill you. Instead, you blame the enemy of the person who tried to kill you.

The bombing in Spain was not AlQaeda flexing it's muscle, it was a decimated AlQaeda with few options left, reduced to attacking an easy target. WIth Morrocco next door infiltrating was easy.

[Aeronaut]

Steyn is an absolute treasure!

[livius]

Actually, 1492 was the year that Muslims were definitively defeated in Spain, after a 700 year fight to get them out. They weren't in control of anything in 1492.

I hope Spain, when it goes to the polls today, remembers that it took them 700 years to get rid of the Muslims the first time around and decides that it would be no fun to have to do it again. If Spain votes for the Socialists, look for Spain to be Muslim-dominated within about five years.