Posted on 07/18/2005 5:05:36 PM PDT by CHARLITE
They say if you want a donkey to do something, get his attention first. So, whack him on the head with a 2-by-4. That'll do it.
But what about people? How many times do humans have to be hit on the head before they pay attention?
Oh, I don't know. Let me count the ways: The U.S. Embassy takeover in Iran; the Hezbollah kidnapping of 20 U.S. and other hostages in Lebanon; destruction of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut; destruction of the U.S. military barracks at Beirut airport; truck bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait; truck bombing of U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut; downing of Kuwait Airways Flight 221; Madrid restaurant bombing of U.S. military; TWA flight 847; the Achille Lauro hijacking; the Rome and Vienna airport bombings; TWA flight 840; West Berlin disco; Pan Am flight downed in Lockerbie, Scotland; the first World Trade Center Bombing; Oklahoma City bombing; car bomb at Riyadh headquarters of U.S. military, Khobar Towers at Dhahran; U.S. embassies at Nairobi and Dar es Salaam; USS Cole, 9-11; American Consulate in Karachi; attacks in Saudi Arabia of housing compounds, Saudi oil company kidnapping and U.S. Consulate; Madrid trains; the murder of Theo van Gogh; the London bombings.
There's more.
What's the link? Islamic militants with the stated aim of destroying the West, the United States, Israel, all we've done and all we stand for. They make no bones about it.
Oh.
Consider the comments by the head of the Al-Maqreze Centre for Historical Studies in London. Hani Al-Siba'i, was asked by Al-Jazeera, the Arab news channel, about the London terrorist attack that killed 54 and left 700-plus injured – all civilians.
He said anyone could have done it, even a "Western country hostile to Britain." He also said the culprit could have been "Zionist Americans."
Of course, blame the Americans, then blame the Jews.
But, he said, if al-Qaida did it, it was a "great victory" because "it rubbed the noses of the world's eight most powerful countries in the mud."
What about targeting civilians? According to Al-Siba'i, under Islamic law, there's no such thing as a civilian; no distinction between military and civilians. They're all fair game.
As for where non-Muslims stand in relation Islamic belief: The world is divided into two houses – Islam and everything else, which is considered the House of War.
Here comes that 2-by-4!
Prime Minister Tony Blair immediately spoke strongly against the attack. He said it was probably done by "Islamist extremist terrorists" and promised to seek new anti-terror laws and to stop radical clerics from inciting and preaching hate.
But then, political correctness set in and the emphasis switched to concern for Muslims' feelings, and he urged looking into the root causes of terrorism.
Duck!
The BBC fell into lock step and eliminated the word "terrorism" from its news reports. The network's reason is that the T-word is a "barrier ... to understanding."
Here's that 2-by-4 again.
Some consider such terror attacks "random," carried out by poor, disenfranchised, angry and illiterate people. Those people are wrong.
The London suspects are all well-to-do and educated. In fact, the 9-11 terrorists were the same, as are most of the terror perpetrators. Refusing to see this is a fatal error.
The London explosives appear to have been military and composed of chemicals not legally available in England. Either they were smuggled in, ready to use, or put together by people with the money and the know-how.
This was the work of people with an intent to kill and maim, to hurt a certain group and to have it part of the overall war against the West, Christians and Jews.
Ignoring that warrants another whack on the head.
More to the point is the trial in Amsterdam of the Dutch-Moroccan national accused of murdering Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh on the morning of Nov. 2, 2004, as he rode his bike to work in Amsterdam.
Twenty-seven-year-old Mohammed Bouyeri told the court: "I take complete responsibility for my actions. I acted purely in the name of my religion." He said he followed "the law that instructs me to chop off the head of everyone who insults Allah or the prophet."
Whack.
What if he were ever set free? "I'd do the same again. Exactly the same."
And what was that?
With more than 50 witnesses in the area, he attacked van Gogh, shooting him 15 times, stabbing him repeatedly, and then slitting his throat. Finally, he jammed a knife in his chest which held in place a letter containing quotes from the Quran and threats against a number of Dutch politicians, including Somali-born Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Ali and van Gogh had produced a short film about the abuse of Muslim women, which had been televised. The two immediately received death threats. After van Gogh's murder, Ali was in hiding for more than two months and remains under 24-hour police guard.
Whack, whack.
In the courtroom, in his short and only statement, Bouyeri spoke to van Gogh's mother, telling her: "I cannot feel for you ... because I believe you are an infidel."
Whack, whack, whack.
How long will it take us to admit this is a religious war and they're playing for keeps?
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
I hope we're not the blind man about to be fatally mugged with that 2-by-4.
Barbara Simpson, "The Babe in the Bunker" as she's known to her KSFO 560 radio talk-show audience in San Francisco, has a 20-year radio, television and newspaper career in the Bay Area and Los Angeles.
Round about 9/12/2001, I saw Yossef Bodansky say that we must go after the sponsoring states. We must go after all of them, no matter how uncomfortable that might be. If we did, there would be both political factions as well as business interests who would strongly oppose it, even to the point of - as such fair weather frineds are wont to do - supporting the dimocraps. Patriots who believe in the Western Tradition must establish means of political and geopolitical support that are quite independent of the whims of pocketbook voters and apolitical business interests. Extraordinary times required extraordinary strategies.
Read Jayna Davis work. There was so much covering up for the Iraqi intelligence connections to OK City it was ridiculous. She documents it all, crosses all her Ts and dots all her Is. THe government refused to look into it.
Also ask yourself why they were in such a big hurry to put McVeigh to death. The Feds NEVER put anybody to death.
We need to leak some "Top Secrets" plans of what we will do if there is a multi-city attack in the US. I would think that Syria and Iran are definitely programmed into the nuclear football as "start here" targets.
She's talking directly to those who think we need to understand them...why do they hate us crowd....only problem is those people won't read this.
The best thing to do is, every time a radical mullah spouts a jihaad sermon, have a JDAM come sailing in the mosque window
I wish we would.
My idea would be that they put him to death because he was responsible for killing all those people. No mystery there.
I have a hard time getting involved with conspiracy theories like this one. There's no doubt in my mind that if the government could prove an Islamofascist connection to OKC they would jump all over it. What possible reason could they have to cover it up? It doesn't make sense. I haven't read the lady's book, but if all the investigators say McVeigh acted alone and one person says he didn't, that one person had better have some airtight solid evidence in hand.
This is on a par with the people who say that McVeigh's truck bomb couldn't possibly have brought down the building. They try to somehow prove that the government set explosive charges inside the building, and killed all those people so they could tighten up security everywhere and take away freedoms. Then there's the group who maintains that no jetliners hit the WTC or Pentagon, or there was no Holocaust, etc. etc.
Well, we won't be asking him any questions now, will we. I'm not against putting him to death, I just feel that it would have been nice to keep him on ice for a while in case any further questions came up, if for no other reason than as a witness in the Terry Nichols investigations.
You can believe or not believe. I don't know or not know either. I don't see the Government as this all knowing, all seeing entity -- it's composed of people, just like any corporation. And usually not the best and the brightest to boot. But I think they cover themselves.
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