Posted on 03/24/2004 9:29:21 PM PST by quidnunc
Comments on items recently in the news.
• Having missed Hamas' dialectician Ahmed Yassin in September, the Israelis now have picked him off — as they vowed they would. The mastermind of hundreds of attacks against Israel, resulting in the murder of at least 377, Yassin vowed in January: "We do not fear the threat of death. We will not bow to pressure, and resistance will continue until the occupation is destroyed." That Israel has killed him should come as no surprise. Nor should the double-standard outrage reserved for Israeli and American actions against terrorists.
Yassin's successor, Abdel Aziz Rantisi, is an equally committed terrorist. In his "acceptance speech," he ripped Israel and (of course) the United States. Having narrowly escaped with his life in an earlier Israeli assault, Rantisi soon may suffer Yassin's fate as well — in what Israel's army chief Moshe Yaalon terms the "decapitation of the (Palestinian) terrorist infrastructure."
• In response to its own Islamist terror bombings, Spain has caved. Its prime minister-elect, a socialist, has (1) vowed to withdraw Spain's 1,300 troops from Iraq, (2) ripped the Bush administration, and (3) joined Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, North Korea's Kim Jong-Il, and other distinguished moderates in gushing about John Kerry.
• And speaking of terrorists, the snipers who terrorized the Washington, D.C., area 18 months ago have been sentenced — John Muhammad to death, his accomplice (a minor at the time) Lee Malvo to a lifelong stay in prison. Since their capture, Muhammad has remained close to mute. But Malvo has talked and drawn pictures, from which it is clear — though not widely reported — that these two sleeper terrorists bear no less hate for whites than Islamist terrorists bear for Christians and Jews.
• How could Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" (LOTR) be more appropriate for this hour, with quotes such as these from the Oscar-sweeping "Return of the King" — marking the end of Middle Earth's Third Age? (1) "(There will be) a day when the age of men comes crashing down, but it is not this day, oh men of the West." And (2) "Let us together rebuild this world, so that we may share in the days of peace."
And could LOTR possibly be any less religious than Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ" — with quotes from the final installment such as this: "The age of men is over; the time of The One has come"?
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Ummm.... As pleased as I am that he's promoting such a magnificent film as ROTK, I hate to break it to Ross Mackenzie but here's the quote from the film: "The age of men is over; the time of The Orc has come."
As for this....
"(There will be) a day when the age of men comes crashing down, but it is not this day, oh men of the West."
....the quote is: "I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the Heart of me. A day may come, when the courage of Men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of Fellowship. But it is not this day. This day - we fight!"
Hold your ground! Hold your ground! Sons of Gondor, of Rohan. My brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me! A day may come, when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of Fellowship, but it is not this day! An hour of wolves and shattered shields - when the age of men comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you, stand, men of the West!
So, it's all there, but Mackenzie did a real mangle-job on it..
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