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SANCTUARY [must read article for every liberal (and conservative) you know]
ejectejecteject.com/ ^ | May 18,2005 | William Whittle

Posted on 05/20/2005 12:41:18 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog

What’s worse than crawling under your beloved house and seeing the foundations rotten with decades of termite damage?

NOT crawling under your beloved house and seeing the foundations rotten with decades of termite damage.

I’ve been away for a while, doing a little thinking. Usually, my thoughts for these past few years have started at home and then taken me to Iraq, and the war. Lately, though, I have been thinking about Iraq, and my thoughts turn more and more to home.

I started thinking along these lines six months ago, after a young Marine shot and killed a wounded Iraqi in a mosque in Fallujah

The ideas behind this little adventure we are about to embark upon have changed enormously since then. I have, quite frankly, been at a loss to know how to put so many wide-ranging snapshots together into this montage, this image, this idea of Sanctuary that I think holds the key to many of the problems we face today.

Stay with me -- our first stop is not our destination, but it is a necessary one. So let me first take you on that original journey, and show you how events in Iraq can show us how to fight and win a much wider and deeper conflict, right here at home.

(Excerpt) Read more at ejectejecteject.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: billwhittle; cary; insignia; jihadi; mujahideen; sanctuary; terrorists; uniform; unlawfulcombatants
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To: Jeff Head

I think the lack of uniform is just the first visible clue. It's not the first time, certainly the concept of guerrila warriors hiding in villages is not new...

These guys have just taken it a step further. They learned about us from our outrage over burned innocents in Vietnamese villages and they will use our own ethics against us. Those villages also had non-uniformed combatants in them. And those stories played on our news and in our movies and horrified us. Those images shake our confidence because we are moral. It's our morality that makes us rip and tear (and roll the live camera) at each other for mere mistakes in judgment in war.

They riot over the suggestion that a book was ruined... not because they give a damn about it, I don't think, but because they know that their riot will make us fall all over ourselves with guilt that we might have offended their sensibilities.

These guys know us. They know our news, and we don't know them well enough to know they are using us against ourselves.


22 posted on 05/20/2005 1:31:55 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog

Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease, but not this time. We have to look Islam in the eye and name it for what it is. As long as we pander to Muslims' cult/religion, we're weak and ineffective, and it's Vietnam all over again. They don't follow the rules because the Koran says they don't have to. Simple as that. Meanwhile, Arab tyrants, Democrat Libs, and Euroweenies are only too happy to beat us over the head with whatever scurrilous lie bin Laden and his pals are yelling. If Kerry were President, things would be different. Worse. We'd be on our knees to the UN, and blaming republicans left and right for everything. Now and then dems might spare a thought about DC being blown up by Muslim crackpots sprung from jail by the ACLU and the likes of Ramsey Clark, but we'd be busy with multiculturalism/Muslim sharia, etc., rammed down our throats morning, noon, and night, a la Germany, France, Canada, and Spain.

Libs don't realize America's existence is what annoys Islamofascists. We'd have to vanish from the face of the earth before they'd be satisfied. If we get hit hard again, another 9/11, perhaps Boston or another attack on NY, and this after months or years of appeasing the fiends, even the dumbest lib might acknowledge that something was wrong with our foreign policy. Don't count on it, though.


23 posted on 05/20/2005 1:37:22 PM PDT by hershey
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To: hershey
If Kerry were President

I shudder to think.

24 posted on 05/20/2005 1:41:04 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: HairOfTheDog
Am I surprised that Michael Moore cannot see this difference? I am not. The man has not seen his own toes for two decades, and they are a good deal closer to him than the streets of Fallujah

I would sell my left arm to have this caliber of wit

25 posted on 05/20/2005 1:47:29 PM PDT by King Prout (blast and char it among fetid buzzard guts!)
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To: HairOfTheDog; Neets; Darksheare; scott0347; timpad; Conspiracy Guy; NYC GOP Chick; MeekOneGOP; ...

must read


26 posted on 05/20/2005 1:48:36 PM PDT by King Prout (blast and char it among fetid buzzard guts!)
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To: HairOfTheDog

I read about the first third and will finish when I get a hour or so. Good reading. The liberals will hate him because guy makes entirely too much sense and threatens their worldview.


27 posted on 05/20/2005 2:04:00 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: hugoball
Read my post. There is no implication that the Colonist patriots fought as the terrorists do. And to begin with, and throughout a large part of the war in many areas, the Continental Army was not uniformed well at all. They had officers, they had non-comms, but they did not have regular uniforms. Many of the militia fighting with the Contintnal Army, in fact, did look just like the general population because that is what they were.

All you say about how Washington fought is true, and he was brilliant in the manner in which he did so, and the soldiers were valient in their holding out against all odds and many times in the most horrible of circumstances.

The point was, that it is not the uniform or lack thereof that really typifies terrorist behavior, it is how they fight, whom they target and how, and what they fight for. That was my whole point.

As to butchering or cowing entire enemy populations...unfortunately, horrifically, when those populations are a willing part of the war effort, it is sometimes necessary. Never desirable, never glorifying, but sometimes tragically necessary just the same to bring the war to a quicker and sure end. We did did so to many, many enemy cities in World War II to break the will of the populations fighting us. Sherman did it in large measure for the same reasons as he cut acrioss the south from Atlanta. There are many other examples, including in our own history...notice I did not say they were unjustified. Depending on how it is done, and why it is done, albeit horrific and a teerrible part of the "war is hell" equation, it is sometimes justified and very necessary.

Just my opinion on the matter.

28 posted on 05/20/2005 2:04:48 PM PDT by Jeff Head
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To: CHARLITE; Tolik

good-stuff/moral-clarity ping


29 posted on 05/20/2005 2:06:15 PM PDT by King Prout (blast and char it among fetid buzzard guts!)
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To: HairOfTheDog
Great essay. The following few sentences alone are worth the entire time spent reading such truly wonderful thoughts.

War is hell, and soldiers have to live there. It is an unbearable burden; unbearable in the sense that not a single man and woman who has been fully exposed to war has ever come back home. Someone else comes back home. Sometimes, it is a better person. Sometimes a worse one. But they are different, all changed in the horror and crucible of war.

30 posted on 05/20/2005 2:08:30 PM PDT by MSSC6644
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To: King Prout

Thanx. Bookmarking ping for later....


31 posted on 05/20/2005 2:25:26 PM PDT by Watery Tart (Let the troof be toad. ®)
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To: CGVet58; All

Bill Whittle is one of the greatest essayists of the 21st century... no... dare I say, THE greatest essayist of the 21st century.

Let me defend my assertion:

No author has put forward such a clear, well referenced, literary type of social, ethical, political and anthropologigical case as Bill Whittle.

No author of essays, save Bill Whittle, has given such a clear tone to every issue that he has addressed.

By choosing "values" instead of "issues" on which to construct essays, Bill Whittle has surpassed every known pubdit to date in his ability to bring cogent thought to the "reason" behind this issues.

Bill's essays stand as a sort of "Federalist Papers" for the postmodern world. He is a voice as shrill and intellectually clear today as was Jefferson in the days of the Revolution.

I have never met Bill, and only know him by proxy, through friends who have chided me for missing his speaking engagements, but I feel as though I know him.

I would readily ride into eternal ideological battle behind General Bill, as his ideas are not silly-blogger-quips. They are not lame partisan attacks. They are based in solid values that are REAL, true and worth defending.

Thank you for your voice, Bill. You are above the rest.


32 posted on 05/20/2005 2:31:29 PM PDT by Nice50BMG (AB 50 outlaws the use of this tagline in California.)
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To: HairOfTheDog
Possibly the best essay I have ever read. Not only is it worth every second, I wanted more.

Who hasn't stood behind that greasy haired ponytail as he bitches about capitalism, Bush, the war in Iraq and especially his country and you bite down hard on that cork knowing if you don't you are going to blow like a volcano?

Everything in this essay is spot on. Like the author I stand beside him with my jaw hanging wide open wondering what it is that those on the left just don't get. What more do they need to see and where does this self loathing come from? Are they truly that ignorant? Are they just taking the easy road of avoiding the heavy lifting of defending their country? What is it?

We call these people educated, at least those with a college degree, but what has years of schooling taught them? To be honest, I put more stock in the knowledge of the janitor with a GED in these colleges then I do with most of the professors with Ph D's.

Thanks for posting this. I am saving the link and I am going to print it out for others to read at work. Next comes the mans book.
34 posted on 05/20/2005 2:40:37 PM PDT by baystaterebel (F/8 and be there!)
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To: hugoball
Which is exactly (hanging/execution) what should happen to each of the terrorists we capture after we extract every bit of useful information out of them possible.

If they are hiding amongst the civilian population to fight, if they are not a part of any identifiable/organized military unit...then they are spies and sabotuers and should be treated accordingly and with dispatch IMHO.

To not do so, only invites more of the esame terror from these modern tyrants and barbarians.

35 posted on 05/20/2005 2:44:21 PM PDT by Jeff Head
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To: HairOfTheDog

save


37 posted on 05/20/2005 3:14:15 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Dig deeper, more ammo.)
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To: King Prout

Agreed. Thanks for the ping.

BTTT


38 posted on 05/20/2005 3:15:59 PM PDT by international american (Tagline now flameproof....purchased from "Conspiracy Guy Custom Taglines"LLC)
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To: HairOfTheDog

Long but worth it.


39 posted on 05/20/2005 3:22:48 PM PDT by mississippi red-neck
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To: HairOfTheDog

I pulled this gem out: "There are millions of photos of people protesting President Bush. There is not a single photo of people in the street protesting Hitler."


40 posted on 05/20/2005 3:33:43 PM PDT by Crawdad (I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no class.)
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