"Peace in our time" (September, 1938)
The result of "peace in our time" (December, 1940)
Posted on 07/08/2005 7:56:17 PM PDT by wagglebee
For the last four years, leftists have pleaded for one thing in how we relate to our enemies in the war on terror. From silly politicians like Howard Dean, who did not even want us to go to Afghanistan; to silly activists like Al Sharpton and silly actors like Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon; to silly talk-radio icons like Al Franken and Ron Kuby, who always seem to rush to the defense of those who commit terrorist acts – they've all asked but one thing.
"Why don't we try to understand their [the terrorists] position, so we can have a better idea of why they do such things?"
The idea behind the pleading has been if we are a humane world, then civilized people should be able to sit down with each other, and reasonably talk their way through any issue that arises. And because it sounds well and good, some wonder what the harm could be in trying it.
Some wonder ... just not me.
On Sept. 11, 2001, I said that I wanted those responsible to pay for what they exacted in human suffering to America. I reiterated time and again throughout the 12 hours I was on the air that day that I wanted them dead.
On July 7, 2005, I said something similar: "I just don't see how anyone can come to any other conclusion on how to deal with these people than to capture them, try them, and put them to death. Or if need be, kill them in the field of battle."
The cowardice that produced not just the 9-11 attacks, but also the attacks that took American lives in Bali, Madrid, Jerusalem, and a handful of other places since 9-11 has only increased due to the American left's desire to "try to understand."
I know what they are getting at. In their mind, everything always has to be America's fault. So if we at one time armed Saddam Hussein because he would help protect American interests in the Middle East, then, by golly, we can never, ever take him out – especially if goes all kooky and dictatorial for more than 30 years. They would argue that we helped prop him up, therefore we are in some way responsible for all the heinous killing he did to hundreds of thousands of his own people.
So their response?
Look the other way.
I suppose that many of them would prefer we ignore Britain's current heart-wrenching situation. Most of the left will probably say: "It's not our business." A handful will justify: "Serves 'em right for going into Iraq." Which interestingly enough is exactly what al-Qaida said in releasing its statement taking credit for the blasts that rocked London. They also warned that Italy and Denmark are next on the list.
Yes, looking the other way certainly kept us out of armed conflict. The first World Trade Tower bombing in 1993, the embassy bombings in Africa, the U.S.S. Cole bombing in which U.S. sailors came home in body bags all certainly sent the message that looking the other way is just a dandy way to go.
What none of the left in America understand is that this life can't be lived by sheer moral relativism. They are afraid of this because they don't wish to be forced to curb their own behavior to actually become moral people. But their fears aside, their unwillingness to look at the face of Satan and call it what it is jeopardizes all of us. These people can not be trusted with national security because they have no sense of the difference between good and evil.
And if they don't "understand" that, then they will never get what I'm about to say.
The only moral way to deal with those who planned and executed the attack in London this week, the attack in Madrid, the attack in Bali, and the multiple attacks on Americans on 9-11 is simple: Track them down. Kill as many of them as we can in the field of battle. Those we capture put on trial. Those who are found guilty, put to death.
I don't really care to understand "why" a crazed jihadist wishes to take the lives of thousands of innocent people. I just want him stopped.
I remember a line in an old Doris Day movie: "We'll give them a fair trial this afternoon and hang them the first thing tomorrow morning."
It works for me.
Imagine the hilarity in a war movie (Say, The Battle of the Bulge) where no enemy soldier is killed before yelling, "Cut!" and having a trial?
Doesn't that sound like a Mel Brooks farce?
Works for me.
High Plains justice.
"Peace in our time" (September, 1938)
The result of "peace in our time" (December, 1940)
Shadows In Smoke Create Haunting Satanic Images, Viewers Say
Images of Tuesday's terrorist attacks have been captured in thousands of photographs. Some of the pictures are horrific, some poignant, and some gut-wrenching, but viewers have written in to newspapers and television stations, saying that that they see an even more haunting image in the smoke billowing from the World Trade Center.
Viewers said that in two specific instances, in a photo taken by an Associated Press photographer, and in a video by CNN, they can clearly identify the eyes, nose, mouth and horns of a devil in the black and gray smoke.
They questioned whether the photographers manipulated the photo to include a satanic face.
Vin Alabiso, an AP vice president and executive photo editor, said that the AP photo (pictured, above) was untouched. Readers were reacting to natural indentations in the smoke cloud, he said.
CNN has not made any comments about its picture (pictured, above left). Although the image has been removed from their Web site, the video where the image came from can still be viewed.
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Every single homicidal jihadist must be killed, every single one. They were recently reported to be estimated to be about 20,000 or .0001 (1/100th of 1%, (or is it 1/10,000th of the population?), and perhaps 85% of the homicide-suicide bombers are from OUTSIDE Iraq) of the population of Iraq, and far less than that elsewhere.
(I would guess that far fewer than 20,000 (Maybe 2,000? Who knows?) are truly homi-suicidal, pseudo-religous cons about paradise going to murderers notwithstanding.)
At the outset fot he war on terror, the best guess was that there wer perhaps 5 to 10,000 of these psychopathic creeps worldwide, which I then said need to be KILLED, each and every one of them.
Non-homicidal jihadists need not be killed.
That's easy - if they're within 12,000 miles, they're guilty
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I wish. I hope someone is working on it. I see some of them and I just don't get how they don't get it except that they are wrapped up in their own selves and perceived self-importance.
So they have a self-loathing because they feel guilty for being 'advantaged' while the terrorists are 'disadvantaged' (poor), you know, they attack us because we have and they don't and surely we somehow robbed them to get it. They do need the victimhood and martyrdom, but will come to love us on the left only if we recognize our faults and join them in their misery. Which we won't.
A few of them might come to see our side, usually after being victimized by those they pity, but then those are lost to the lefties and loathed by them as well. To them, we are mean-spirited (sorry, I hate that term) and this gives them just cause (b/c they have no valid other one) to hate us. And they do hate us when we fight back. Any excuse, really.
Service with a smile? More kindness than we were shown, to be sure.
It really does seem that way, more and more. Just like the DU, they can only spout the party line of hate. Check out this Muslim shopkeeper's reaction to the terror attack. Chilling.
Simply excellent.....although the logistical, practical realistic problem with "track them down, one by one......." is that they are everywhere, like an infestation of our entire planet. The "one-by-one" tracking-down proposal isn't feasible. What's going to be necessary is a display of tactical nuclear shock and awe, because if the leadership of this country thinks that we'll just quietly spend the next 3 or 4 decades tediously transforming current dictatorships into democracies, the task of truly, swiftly (and yes, brutally) defeating islamofascism will likely never get done, because while we're conducting that "transformation," Eurabia will be a fait accompli - done deal - Muslimized Europe. Then what?!
Char
You are FAR too compassionate...
All Jihadists must be killed...
The Clerics that poisoned their minds, must be killed.
The high and mighty that financed them, must be killed..
The lowly that give them encouragement, support and aid, must be killed..
The brood mares that teach them to hate, as they suckle them, must be killed..
The non-Muslim bastards that armed them, must be killed..
All that stand with our enemy, and desire our defeat, must surrender UNCONDITIONALLY or die.
The diplomats and politicians that wished to profit from dealing with our enemy, SHOULD be severely punished and distrusted for decades.
That's as compassionate as I can be....
I'm stuck in the Old Testament, haven't made it to the New Testament yet ---- been too busy ducking!
Semper Fi
If you ask me, the Leftist's won. Our response to the Attack by Islam has not converted two Islamic Countries to Democracy, it has converted two Democracy's into Fascist police States. America and Israel both do not have private property rights anymore, and our elections are circuses, because Congress no longer makes the laws, the Lawyers in Cleric drag sitting on the Supreme court do. Free countries have representation, our dictators are safely removed from elections.
Bye, bye American Pie...
The only moral way to deal with those who planned and executed the attack in London this week, the attack in Madrid, the attack in Bali, and the multiple attacks on Americans on 9-11 is simple: Track them down. Kill as many of them as we can in the field of battle. Those we capture put on trial. Those who are found guilty, put to death.
I don't really care to understand "why" a crazed jihadist wishes to take the lives of thousands of innocent people. I just want him stopped.
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