Posted on 06/27/2005 8:32:45 PM PDT by quidnunc
Hard pounding, gentlemen; but we will see who can pound the longest. – The Duke of Wellington, at Waterloo.
The Islamoterrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan have shown a resilience that some have found surprising.
They have learned fast and learned much — about how to build more effective roadside bombs, for instance, and about the futility of engaging American forces directly in firefights.
They have shown an ugly ruthlessness about spilling Muslim blood.
They have demonstrated an extraordinary ability or extraordinary luck in preserving their leadership, sometimes with hairbreadth escapes.
And, although they may be scraping a barrel or two while husbanding their "finest" for later operations, they have thus far produced enough recruits (some with their hands taped to steering wheels) to continue their fight despite heavy losses.
Give them credit where credit is due. And credit them, too, for shedding light on a dark reality many Americans would prefer to ignore — the power of hatred.
It is fashionable to praise the power of an uplifting idea, but it makes us uncomfortable to admit the power of festering hatred. Yet it is pure hatred that is abroad and alive in the bomb-laden cars that ply the streets and roads of Iraq and in the calculated fury that leaves children dismembered in a market place and young policemen executed with their hands tied behind their backs.
All the efforts to comb the Koran and extol the virtues and ideals of "mainstream" Islam will not camouflage nor expiate the murderous hatred of the Islamofanatics at work in Iraq and around the globe.
Explore the radical Islamic websites. Consider their pronouncements — all they have said and written. There are no ideals there, few ideas, only impositions.
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What in the world???
The answer is breathtakingly simple: repay hatred with hatred, and add a high rate of interest to the repayment.
A dispassionate brutality will suffice.
Outstanding graphic! Perhaps it should be shown to the leaders of all those little pipsqueak countries that like to pull the tiger's tail. They should be made to understand that if they pull the tiger's tail once too often the last thing they will see is a blinding flash of light.
Shouldn't we have bracketed Iraq by hitting Iran and Saudi first?
BTTT
This won't get past the gate of tolerance.
We call that "Plan B".
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Sometimes, it's the simple fixes that work. BUMP!
But America is currently dedicated to 40-50 something bitter female-communist-babyboomer ideology of "All men are bad" and " All the passions of men are bad" and "The only good man is a gay man" and "Liberal women know better because we aren't violent like men"
As long as we fight with one hand behind our back, obeying vague niceties of well-mannered warfare where we try really really hard not to kill or injure enemies, doing their best to kill us, we encourage them. They can't believe their luck and naturally think we're stupid.
If the positions were reversed, they'd have turned the US into a glass parking lot years ago. No second thoughts, no hand wringing. Just boom. I'm not advocating nuclear weapons but the longer this plays out, the more likely we will be hit by a nuclear something planted by terrorists we let get away or even possibly released from Gitmo. We should stop playing by their rules, or Liberal/EU weenie rules/UN rules. They've never had our interests at heart and aren't about to start now, so the US had better pay attention to business.
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