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.
....and may posterity forget that you [Dem and RINO traitors] were our countrymen.
MAybe they are afraid to send their reporters out with the Green Machine?
This is the defining moment for our forces, and the media is to slobbishly unpatriotic to keep up?
SHAME!!! SHAME!!!
I SOLD MY TELEVISION 6 YEARS AGO, AND FEEL ABSOLUTELY VINDICATED TODAY.
Remember Pattons famous slogan: " Your job is NOT to die for your country, but to make sure that every enemy son of a bitch dies for his!"
And his ability to be snuffed out under a 500 pound bomb or two as well. Soon, please.
We predicted that the al Qaeda scum would ramp things up and make a big show after Zarq was wasted as a face-saving tactic. I didn't think it would be anything this horrendous, but essentially, al Muhajer has signed his own death warrant with this action.
I sure hope so, because sometimes it seems we put a higher priority on not offending anyone, fretting over whether prisoners have appropriate ethnic cuisine and enough copies of the Koran, meanwhile arresting and trying our own soldiers for split-second decisions made under combat conditions.
Put one or two of those sum'bitch** in irons and the others will shut the f*ck up!
Allan Eckert's books are totally amazing. These books should be mandatory reading for all high school students. I recommend starting with the Frontiersman then reading Dark and Bloody River. Through his extensive research of the violent era during the settlement of America and his engaging narrative style, Eckert reminds us all that this land was not won easily. Terrible things happened on places where we now have baseball parks and towns. It was not that long ago. Another reminder that we must still fight for our way of life.
Marine barracks, Lebanon
That happened during the cold war. The geo political dynamics were totally different. Reagan's options were limited.
This guy is a nut case.
This guy is a nut case.
Good question.
The Islamics would do well to remember that no people have such a rich and varied history of industrialized mass murder when it comes to doing away with their enemies or minority groups which have outlived their utility, or their welcome, than the white Europeans and their American descendents.
From the the Crusades to the massive world wars of the last century, White Europeans are on the forefront of killing technology, and the will to use it, whenever they feel they must.
And they will find ways to justify it if the islamics keep up their push for world domination.
The Islamics would do well to remember what we have been capable of in the past.
The excerpt below, from your link, brought to mind the book I'm currently reading along these same lines.
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It may also be worth noting that the images of American propensities to violence, and of the capabilities of American military forces and intelligence operatives, are so widely distributed in the media that they may actually heighten international respect for American strength and discourage attempts to test it.
.I am Scots Irish and a Jacksonian... BTW
This short article confirms the fact, as your article stated, Jacksonian America recently migrated from the Democratic Party to the Republican party.
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