Posted on 12/02/2006 6:23:18 AM PST by Valin
Good post. I like his historical perspective and heartily agree with the linking of jihadists, jacobins, nazis, nihilists, anarchists and the IRA. However, "resentment" is too benign a characterization for the visceral and murderous hatred and plain inhumanity that links these groups. The reality is that most of the individuals who pull the triggers, plant the bombs and teach hatred are plain psychopaths - as evidenced by their collective proclivity to murder each other, viz., Stalin, Sunnis & Shiia, Crusaders, especially once they gain control. George Orwell's Animal Farm still has a lot to teach us.
Bump
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Utterly destroy them.
I use to study and, read the Old Testament years ago.
One of the themes that seems to have lingered in my mind was when God told a leader to destroy the enemy, he meant just that. Leave nothing alive, Goats, baby's, anything that breathed air. There were good reasons for this as Bible Scholars will attests to.
If you will read the life of Sampson you will find the reasoning.
God had warned Sampson about the Philistines but Sampson desired in his heart the life style of these people. And, as Paul Harvey would say, Now you know the rest of the story.
Until our government leaders takes to task the destroying of the "Muslim Religion of Peace" there will never be any peace.
If we had presently, leadership as we did during World War II we would not be facing the WOT as we now find ourselves in.
Sadom Husein was and, still is a bastard, but he has shown the world how you must control the different sects of Muslim religion.
Our President, Bush, had good intentions, but wars can't be won with good intentions.
Why aren't the disgruntled Muslims setting themselves on fire, like the Buddhist monks did when they protested the War in Vietnam?
[It's easier to hate than work.]
If you're a member of a religious militia it often pays better too.
I meant my last reply to be on another thread. Good Grief! I must be half asleep.
Bump. Envy and resentment. As long as we identify these emotions for what they truly are, we're on the right track.
Two words: Robin Hood
It's OK to steal from the rich because they mean, greedy oppressors.
The article identifies the above as Neitzsche's observation. Google the "Einstein Freud letters (or correspondence)" and you'll find that Freud made the same observation (although phrased differently) when Einstein questioned him about the possibility of permanent peace.
Actually, I was reminded of the Bible, which pointed out this phenomenon thousands of years earlier:
And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate:
and it was so, that when any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said, Of what city art thou?
And he said, Thy servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.
And Absalom said unto him, See, thy matters are good and right;
but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.
Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man which hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice!
And it was so, that when any man came nigh to him to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took him, and kissed him.
And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
2Sa 15:2-6
I could care less what supposed "grievances" these people have. That's an intellectual game for left-wingers.
In dealing with terrorism you are confronting a resentment that is not concerned to improve the lot of anyone, but only to destroy the thing it hates. That is what appeals in terrorism, since hatred is a much easier and less demanding emotion to live by than love, and is much more effective in recruiting a following.
All the lofty rhetoric aside, muslim terrorism is not about promoting the word of allah or avenging past wrongs or cleansing the world of its secular stains. It is about the widening gulf between a culture still mired in the Dark Ages, and one that is advancing at a geometric rate.
Technology alone does not beget civility, but a lack of material advancement tends to promote barbarism. islam is a perfect example.
It seems to me that we will be nearer to understanding terrorism if, instead of looking at what terrorists have in common, we look at what is common to their victims. The targets of terrorism are groups, nations or races. And they are distinguished by their worldly success — either material or social.
Finally - someone who understands it's the bored and the jealous. It's the folks who "feel" they should have more - even if having more means destroying what others have... Didn't God warn about those who "covet"...
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Huh?
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