Posted on 07/22/2005 4:39:59 PM PDT by anonymoussierra
First the terrorists of the Middle East went after the Israelis. From 1967 we witnessed 40 years of bombers, child murdering, airline hijacking, suicide murdering, and gratuitous shooting. We in the West usually cried crocodile tears, and then came up with all sorts of reasons to allow such Middle Eastern killers a pass.
Yasser Arafat, replete with holster and rants at the U.N., had become a “moderate” and was thus free to steal millions of his good-behavior money. If Hamas got European cash, it would become reasonable, ostracize its “military wing,” and cease its lynching and vigilantism.
(Excerpt) Read more at victorhanson.com ...
Is it really "almost all" or is it "all?"
""Is it really "almost all" or is it "all?""
I do want know good friend thank you"Bahbah"
I guess I don't care for the use of the term "we" that is used liberally in this article.
Excellent VDH as always.
Great article, Sara .. thank you. How are things with you in Poland? Thank you for being such a great friend to America!
"Meanwhile an odd thing happened. It turns out that the jihadists were cowards and bullies, and thus selective in their targets of hatred. A billion Chinese were left alone by radical Islam — even though the Chinese were secularists and mostly godless, as well as ruthless to their own Uighur Muslim minorities. Had bin Laden issued a fatwa against Beijing and slammed an airliner into a skyscraper in Shanghai, there is no telling what a nuclear China might have done....Islamicists are selective in their attacks and hatred. So far global jihad avoids two billion Indians and Chinese, despite the fact that their countries are far tougher on Muslims than is the United States or Europe. In other words, the Islamicists target those whom they think they can intimidate and blackmail."
Brilliant.
"Meanwhile an odd thing happened. It turns out that the jihadists were cowards and bullies, and thus selective in their targets of hatred. A billion Chinese were left alone by radical Islam — even though the Chinese were secularists and mostly godless, as well as ruthless to their own Uighur Muslim minorities. Had bin Laden issued a fatwa against Beijing and slammed an airliner into a skyscraper in Shanghai, there is no telling what a nuclear China might have done....Islamicists are selective in their attacks and hatred. So far global jihad avoids two billion Indians and Chinese, despite the fact that their countries are far tougher on Muslims than is the United States or Europe. In other words, the Islamicists target those whom they think they can intimidate and blackmail."
Dissatisfied Muslims should unite behind a non-violent leader like King, Gandhi, or Walesa if they want to have any real success.
And that is precisely what liberals in America and Europe don't understand: the Islamists aren't fighting by our rules- our values, our respect for human rights and freedom. They perceive those as weakness, and throughout history, dominant cultures and empires are attacked most when they are seen as weak. Much of the current mess throughout the world could have been avoided if President Clinton hadn't spent 8 years worrying about opinion polls and giving half-hearted responses to terrorism, making the US look soft, weak, and like an easy target. Fortunately, the political winds in Washington changed, which is why there havent been any repeat attacks on US soil- unlike elsewhere, where people just keep getting hit again and again.
Good Article.
Bump & two pings
Tolik already posted this sometime earlier this evening, but it is worth a double-shot.
And no one more so than the British. Lessons being taught live in the subways.
That is what it will take to win this War on Terror Islam. We do not have the stomach to do what we must. The Chinese wouldn't TALK about nuking Mecca. they would just DO it.
There's a malfunction with the search function. It just happened to me trying to get back to this thread after I sent a FReepmail and checked a FReepmail. I had to click on the "go back" arrow about ten times to find this thread again.
there is more than one bug running loose in the server, no doubt - the search malfunction is one, the endemic lag problem is another.
I don't know what is going on - it all seemed to hit after the 4th of July weekend
And Then They Came After Us
(Victor Davis Hanson gets it!)
Posted by kellynla
On News/Activism 07/23/2005 6:37:39 AM PDT · 3 replies · 25+ views
National Review Online ^ | July 22, 2005 | Victor Davis Hanson
And Then They Came After Us
Posted by anonymoussierra
On News/Activism 07/22/2005 4:39:59 PM PDT · 16 replies · 682+ views
National Review Online ^ | Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson:
And Then They Came After Us,
We’re at war. How about acting like it?
Posted by Tolik
On News/Activism 07/22/2005 7:31:12 AM PDT · 68 replies · 1,455+ views
NRO ^ | July 22, 2005 | Victor Davis Hanson
Thank you
Tell it like it is.
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