Being a somewhat distant member of that war council, I must inquire. Exactly what is it that you wish us to do with the accumulation of Muslim carcasses we will be forced to dispose of if we follow your suggestions?
Semper Fi
Posted on 04/20/2004 1:06:22 PM PDT by An Old Man
From: MVB--- Below is an editorial from Sunday's edition of a Florida newspaper, The News Herald, Panama City. Someone who reads this paper thought that the editorial was worth a wider distribution and retyped it to send out over the Internet. Phil Lucas, the paper's Executive Editor, wrote this article for Sunday April 4, 2004. The News Herald web site is found at http://www.newsherald.com/
Up Against Fanaticism Commentary: Up against fanaticism Sunday, April 4, 2004 By Phil Lucas, Executive Editor plucas@pcnh.com If straight talk of savagery offends you, if you believe in ethnic and gender diversity but not diversity of thought or if you think there is an acceptable gray area between good and evil, then turn to the funny pages, and take the children, too.
This piece is not for you.
We published pictures Thursday of burnt American corpses hanging from an Iraqi bridge behind a mob of grinning Muslims.
Some readers didn’t like it.
Mothers said it frightened their children. A woman who works with Muslim physicians thought it might offend or endanger them.
Well, we sure don’t want to frighten, offend or endanger anybody, do we? That’s just too much diversity to handle. I mean, somebody might get hurt.
We could fill the newspaper every morning with mobs of fanatical Muslims. They can’t get along with their neighbors on much of the planet: France, Chechnya, Bosnia, Indonesia, Spain, Morocco, India, Tunisia, Somalia, etc. etc. etc. Can anybody name three ongoing world conflicts in which Muslims are not involved? Today, where there is war, there are fanatical Muslims. We might quibble about who started what conflicts, but look at the sheer number of them.
One thing is sure. Muslim killers started the one we are in now when they slaughtered more than 3,000 people, including fellow Muslims, in New York City.
Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state and feckless appeaser who helped get us into this mess, said last week Muslims still resented the Crusades. Well, Madame Albright, if Westerners were not such a forgiving people, we might resent them too.
Let’s recap the Crusades. Muslims invaded Europe, and when they reached sufficient numbers, they imposed their intolerant religion upon Westerners by force. Christian monarchs drove them back and took the battle to their homeland. The fight lasted a couple of centuries, and we bottled them up for 1,000 years.
Now, a millennium later, Muslims have expanded forth again. Ask France. Ask England. Ask Manhattan. Two-and-a-half years ago fanatical Muslims laid siege to us. We woke up to the obvious. Our president announced it would be a very long war, then took the battle to the Islamic homeland. Sound familiar?
Let’s consider the concept of a “long war.” Last time it was 200 years, give or take.
Anybody catch Lord of the Rings? You know, the good part, the part that wasn’t fiction, the part that drew us to the books and movies because it was the truest part: the titanic struggle between good and evil, between freedom and enslavement, between the individual and the state, between the celebration of life and the worshipping of death.
That’s the fight we are in, and it never ends. It just has peaks and valleys.
There may be a silent majority of peaceful Muslims –– some live here –– but that did not save 3,000 people in the World Trade Center, the millions gassed and butchered in the Middle East, the tens of thousands slain in Eastern Europe and Asia, the hundreds blown to bits in the West Bank and Spain, or the four Americans shot, burned and hung like sausage over the Euphrates as a fanatical minority of Muslims did the joyful dance of death.
Maybe we are so tolerant, we are so bent on “diversity,” we are so nonjudgmental, we are so wrapped up in our six-packs and ballgames that our brains have drained to our bulbous behinds. Maybe we’re so addled on Ritalin we wouldn’t know which end of a gun to hold. Maybe we need a new drug advertised on TV every three minutes, one that would help us grow a backbone.
It doesn’t take a Darwin to figure out that in this world the smartest, the fastest, the strongest, and the most committed always win. No exceptions.
Look at your spouse and children. Look at yourself in the mirror. Then look at the pictures from the paper last Thursday. You better look at them. Those are the people out to kill you.
Who do you think will win? You? Or them? Think you can take your ball and go home and they will leave you alone? Read a little history. Start with last week, last month, last year, and every other year back for half a century. Then go back a thousand years. Nobody hides from this fight.
Like it or not, that’s the way it was and that’s the way it is.
But many Americans don’t get it.
That’s why I made the case to my boss and fellow editors to publish those pictures.
If they jarred you off the sofa, if they offended you, if they scared your children and sent you into a rage at mass murderers or heartless editors, then I say, it’s a start.
Being a somewhat distant member of that war council, I must inquire. Exactly what is it that you wish us to do with the accumulation of Muslim carcasses we will be forced to dispose of if we follow your suggestions?
Semper Fi
I think that bin Laden drew a perfectly natural conclusion - kill enough people and the survivors will accommodate you. Certainly nothing in his previous experience with both Europeans and Americans disabused him of that notion. And it isn't just him.
It is, in my experience, a difficult thing for civilized, tolerant people to understand that there really are other people who want to kill them and won't be talked out of it. These cling to negotiation because its alternative, killing, offends their moral senses and is not, under normal circumstances, anything but a last-resort policy anyway. Morality has, for them, become so blurred by safety and luxury that they truly do believe that fighting back lowers one to the level of the attacker. Only the protected can afford that level of "broad-mindedness."
In truth, however, we have not forgotten which is the business end of the gun, or at least enough of us have not to make the difference. That may change. If it does, bin Laden will have been proven right. I hope it does not happen in my lifetime.
Semper Fi
Roger that, sir. A community effort reflective of the help and input of many different Americans. If we can't fight today in the Terror war Arena, we can still fight like hell in the Arena of the War of Ideas!
That's the fight we are in and it never ends. It just has peaks and valleys
Wow! I was thinking something similar when I saw the pictures too. That these Saddamites and Islam fanatics are so insanely evil they are like something out of LOTR . It is total madness for the liberals to think they can be reasoned with. There is no doubt in my mind that if they ever had or ever will get Bio, chem, or nuke weapons they would not hesitate to use them.
Helloooo liberals, these fanatics don't care about their own children, they happily send them out to murder innocent people and blow themselves to bits. What makes you think you can trust them with your children's futures?
Excellent article.
Private industry would be encouraged provide modern up-to-date designs incorporating the latest technology.
All this would not go unnoticed by foreign media and governments. The question would be, "Why is the U.S. building all these shelters?"
They could be for protection from terrorist bombs, the often mentioned "WMD" which it was feared Saddam would supply.
Or it could be protection from a nuclear Iran or a hostile China. Maybe fears of a nuclear Brazil or North Korea.
But the true reason is that the U.S. is preparing for the day the U.S. nukes the Islamics where they live. Sort of like the Vietnam scenario - calling down an airstrike in your own perimeter. Only this perimeter is Planet Earth.
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