Posted on 06/21/2006 5:10:18 AM PDT by Quilla
If in the case of Iraq there has been any lessening of resolve among the American electorate, and to read the newspapers and listen to a great many television pundits one might certainly think there has, the events of the past 48 hours should put these doubts to rest.
American forces have recovered the remains of two soldiers, Privates Thomas Tucker and Kristian Menchaca, ambushed and kidnapped at a check point in the aptly named “Triangle of Death” south of Baghdad. Specialist David Babineau, died in the attack and was not captured.
Iraqi Major General Abdul-Aziz Mohammed Jassim, director of the Iraqi military operations room, stated “with great regret” that there is strong evidence that the soldiers in question had been captured alive, horribly tortured, mutilated, and then murdered. Major General Jassim described the way in which these brave soldiers died as “barbaric.” This probably means that they were beheaded.
A bulletin dor the blissfully ignorant opponents of our commitment to the Iraqi people: this is the true face of the enemy. This is representative of the fate they have in store for all of those – American, British, Iraqi, soldier or civilian, man, woman or child, – whoever does not share their twisted and sadistic view of the world. Nowhere in scripture or practice do the jihadis see a limit to the scope of their ambitions of less than a global caliphate. It is only a matter of time and tactics for them.
If they have not already figured it out, and it is highly unlikely that they have, the murderers in Iraq have made yet another egregious error. Perhaps even a fatal one for their own cause. Americans don’t react to barbarity in the way in which our enemies hope. Americans still remember the Alamo.
Consider the aftermath of the Little Bighorn.
Consider the evidence of Pearl Harbor.
Too many would-be enemies forget the prophetic words of Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto following that attack when he said; “I fear that we have awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.”
Americans don’t react well or predictably to threats, murder, and treachery. This repugnance and stubborn resolve seems to be in our genes. Recently I have been re-reading a series of excellent books by Allan Eckert detailing the founding of America. In one of these books, The Conquerors, Eckert details the attempt in 1763 by Ottawa war chief Pontiac to lead a great uprising of tribes against British and American interests in the Great Lakes region.
Pontiac’s approach, much like that of the mullahs and terrorists in Iraq, was characterized by his fiery oratorical presence among the tribes and his ready resort to extreme treachery, barbarity, and viciousness. At the height of his influence Pontiac led the forces of 18 tribes, thousands of hardened warriors, from throughout the Great Lakes region all the way to the Mississippi. The American and British presence throughout the region was laughably small with the largest garrison of troops, fewer than 200 at the present site of the city of Detroit, Michigan. Pontiac and his legions, whose methods ran to wholesale destruction and bloodshed, disdained taking prisoners except for the purposes of slavery and horrendous torture. Pontiac’s onslaught on the frontier was exceptionally bloody and merciless.
But the reaction of the British governors of the region and, most especially, the Americans who populated this frontier, was far from that which Pontiac had expected. The American reaction especially was of outrage and retaliation. The frontiersmen fought back with an unparalleled fury. Within two years Pontiac’s great confederacy was a shambles. A few years later the once great war chief was murdered by a fellow Indian near present day St. Louis.
In Iraq the terrorist mastermind Al-Zarqawi is dead and his would-be successor Abu Hamza al-Muhajer has stepped into the dead killer’s shoes announcing that the heinous and unspeakable murder of these American soldiers is his personal doing. Perhaps he believes that by so doing he announces his own implacable opposition to American and Iraqi interests and his ability to strike at will.
Perhaps Al-Muhajer has what passes for an excellent grasp of supposed Islamic history. But what Al-Mujaher is severely lacking is an appreciation of American history and the nature of American willpower. Unless I miss my guess, he is about to find out. It will not be a pleasant lesson.
For those Democrats who claim they are supporting our troops by calling for an immediate withdrawel, I can say this.
Years ago I was a boxer. When fighting, you get hit and it is tough. There are times when you are getting pounded pretty good and part of you just wants to lay down, but the other part wants to finish the job. Which part of you wins this internal fight determines whether you stand or fall.
There are people in the crowd yelling for you to keep punching and it really matters when they do that. They help that part of you that wants to continue the fight.
There are also people in the crowd yelling for your competitor, they are helping him.
And then there are the people who are calling you a bum and criticizing your fight... THEY are helping your competitor. Those who criticize your coach, or your style, they are helping your competitor. They are telling the part of you that wants to lay down that there is no reason to fight.
Kerry, Murtha et-al; They are telling our soldiers that they might as well fall down cause the fight is over. "Give it up you bums...you don't have a chance!!!" That is what they are doing and no matter how much they claim to support the troops, doing anything other than 100% support for a successful conclusion undermines our troops.
I fear that you are correct.
Already the forces on the left are saying that the killers and occupiers in Iraq get the fate they deserve from the noble "freedom fighters".
"Give me Liberty, or give me Death."
Words that meant something!
There should be an unrelenting fury and our vengeance should be swift and terrible to behold-but it won't. Our Soldiers and Marines are sent into this very difficult situatuion where you can't tell friend from foe (it's not like they are squaring off against Redcoats) and are held accountable like State troopers. I agree with Dubya 90% of the time, but he has really not stepped up to the plate when it comes to situations like Colonel West, Lt. Pantano, etc...Our boys are kept in shackles while detainees are given pillows.
Even Fox news, the former voice of conservatives, has moved the story out of the spotlight. Ugly news that would help fire up the American population is quickly relegated to the dust bin of the media shops.
or truman
I go beyond questioning their patriotism, I believe their conduct to be outright treasonous.
Don't make me laugh -- I'll believe it when I see it.
If there was any veracity to this statement at all, Fallujah would have been a smoking ruins by now. And the water and electricity would have been turned off in most of Iraq -- permanently -- more than two years ago.
I, for one, would happily die if I could kill two al-Qaeda.
I would like to initiate an arrest and a trial.
No outrage on behalf of the left at this outrageous death.
If you can't say anything bad about America, don't say anything.
This is propaganda by blackout.
Soon to be a FReeper classic, and enter the world at large's lexicon.
I would love for this area to be known as the TRIANGLE OF RUBBLE. I can't stop reading the articles regarding these young men, and I am sitting here crying. I am crying for them and for their families. I am also crying for our country. We were a country built on resolve and yet we have people like Murtha, Kerry, Kennedy and that biatch Jane Harmon. There is an entire region of the world that would love for all of us to die and yet these idiots just sit back and cast all of their venom on the mission at hand instead of on the terrorist. I haven't heard a peep out of Dickhead Durban yet. Didn't he say we were as bad as the SS? I am sick to my stomach right now. I swear, I wish we could retaliate by turning the whole damn place into a freaking parking lot, then go on the air and let all these other savage terrorists nations their next.
What seeps through the smog is that their eyes were poked out, their bodies horribly tortured, and then their throats cut and heads removed. They were butchered according to the protocols of the Religion of Peace, and their remains could only be identified tentatively pending DNA analysis.
The feelings of their relatives deserve respect but so does the truth.
He also pounded the hell out of Libya and Kadaffi was never the same.
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