Rattlesnake Flags & Early American Snake Symbolism
Posted on 12/27/2008 1:18:39 PM PST by GonzoII
As we (or the better informed among us at least) celebrate the anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto this Saturday, marking the date in 1571 when the navy of Pope Pius V's Holy League turned back the Ottoman Turks from one of their recurrent jihads, it might be opportune to consider how the Islamic world has advanced politically over the last half century.
Not terribly well, I reckon. But if the Arab portion of that world is soon swept up by democratic reform, then it seems likely that the future will be, well, perhaps something like the Gaza Strip, where political parties Hamas and Fatah supplement ballots with running street battles, familiar to us as well from Lebanon and Iraq.
To each his own, says I. Better that Arab-Muslim passions be turned against their own city councilmen and politicos than against the Zionist-Crusader Conspiracy, and better that Sunnis and Shias proclaim death to each other rather than death to us -- though the gunmen of Hamas and Fatah and others in the region seem fairly ambidextrous in their hatreds and willingness to dispense violence.
As far as our national interest is concerned, it doesn't much matter what Islamists and Baathists and Fatahists do to one another as long as they leave us alone -- and by leaving us alone, I mean not only not attacking us (or developing means to attack us), but deferring to our right to befriend whom we choose to befriend, to trade with whom we wish to trade, and to broadcast our ideas to whoever wants to listen, to be ourselves in the world, and to be true to our unofficial motto of Don't Tread on Me.
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My dad flies the American Flag AND the Don’t Tread On Me flag in his front yard.
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Family legend has it that Giovanni Andrea Doria, nephew of The Andrea Doria, who liberated the Genovese Republic from the French, is a distant relative on my mother's side. He commanded one wing of the Christian fleet, which included a a few ships armed with a new innovation - cannon. One of these cannon armed vessels included in its crew a 23 year old Spaniard named Miguel de Cervantes who would go on to write a book about windmills.
The Battle of Lepanto anniversary is in October, not December.
Right, but the battle against Islam is now.
Right, I knew that, the battle against Islam is now.
Which video, preacher?
Islam's battle against civilization has been going on for over 1300 years.
Crush islam Ping
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