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Evil in Norway
Commentary ^ | 7/22/2011 | John Podhoretz

Posted on 07/22/2011 1:52:13 PM PDT by mojito

The monstrous events today in Norway—as of this writing, word is that a gunman slaughtered at least 30 kids at a youth camp who had gathered to hear about the earlier bombing of government offices in Oslo—have stirred in me a kind of rage I haven’t felt this viscerally since the days after 9/11, when my apartment in Brooklyn Heights looked out directly on the violent purple gash in the sky that hovered over the wreckage like a demonic counterimage of the holy cloud that followed the Jews through the desert in the aftermath of the Exodus. Perhaps it is that my own daughter is, as I write, at her own day camp outside New York City, and so there is something visceral, primal, in my sense of connection to the dead and dying and their parents. This rage, which is accompanied by all manner of violent thoughts about what should be done and could be done to the living body of the depthlessly evil monster who committed this Satanic act, is disturbing in its intensity. I would like it to go away. But it won’t, and it shouldn’t, because without it–without a stark response to something so purposefully awful–we are unilaterally disarming ourselves. The monster and his comrades have the passion to commit their foul deeds. If we respond with dispassion, we are ceding to them part of the animating force that makes us human. If we decide to intellectualize our emotions rather than allow them to influence us, we are turning our back on our responsibility to those whose lives were stripped from them.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: amish; breivik; charlesmartel; islam; jihad; norway; oslo
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When will we make an example of these people, once and for all?

When will we stop playing nice? When will we stop making excuses for their crimes and for our inability to act?

1 posted on 07/22/2011 1:52:17 PM PDT by mojito
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To: mojito

See my tagline...


2 posted on 07/22/2011 1:54:22 PM PDT by Bobalu (He who is compassionate to the cruel will ultimately become cruel to the compassionate)
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To: mojito

Yeah, let’s just forget about the Beslan school attack, Madrid subway bombing, London Bombing, any terrorist attacks between now and 9/11...

Either those attacks didn’t bother him or he is Rip Van Winkle.


3 posted on 07/22/2011 1:56:20 PM PDT by Roger_Wildcat
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To: mojito

Wipe them out. Wipe them all out.”. Emperor Palpatine


4 posted on 07/22/2011 1:56:44 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: mojito

We are the sheep. They are the wolves.


5 posted on 07/22/2011 1:56:52 PM PDT by GRANGER
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We have not yet been hurt enough to summon the collective will to do what must be done. Deep down, we understand where it must lead and how horrilbe it will be.


6 posted on 07/22/2011 1:57:00 PM PDT by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: mojito

What will Obama and Clinton do? Norway may want to join the WOT. Will Dear Leader turn a deaf ear?


7 posted on 07/22/2011 1:57:05 PM PDT by Spok (A free man wants to be neither slave nor master.)
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We have a Sick ,Perverted,Mentally ILL ,Dyke,Protecting US and our families from the Hordes of Hell??? NOT GOOD.


8 posted on 07/22/2011 1:58:47 PM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date that will live in Infamy.)
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Muzzies —the group that turned Swedes and Norwegians into xenophobes?

I must say, that’s really an amazing piece of work.


9 posted on 07/22/2011 1:59:51 PM PDT by gaijin
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Will Dear Leader turn a deaf ear?

Didn't you get the memo?

There isn't a "war on terror" anymore. There's only "outreach" to our misunderstood Muslim brethren.

And didn't you realize that the Muslim call to prayer is "the prettiest sound on earth"?

10 posted on 07/22/2011 2:01:05 PM PDT by mojito
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To: gaijin

You just will NOT believe this DHS video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwrpXpPp7vA

Just wow..!


11 posted on 07/22/2011 2:01:16 PM PDT by gaijin
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What will Obama and Clinton do? Norway may want to join the WOT. Will Dear Leader turn a deaf ear?

In these cases of "man-made disasters", they will make speeches, offer aid, and host telethons; they will NOT make any effort stop it, however.

12 posted on 07/22/2011 2:01:48 PM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment (Is this field required?)
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History will repeat itself when dark forces must be obliterated once again. People that have no stomach for this including liberals, get out of the way!
13 posted on 07/22/2011 2:03:18 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Roger_Wildcat

well Americans did forget 9/11 and decided to give Obama a chance


14 posted on 07/22/2011 2:04:03 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Why are my Obama jokes funnier than Conan and Leno's?)
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To: mojito
Put this in your hookah Photobucket
15 posted on 07/22/2011 2:04:08 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: mojito

The Western World needs to do three things. They are difficult, but not impossible. They will be met with resistance, but they need to be done.
1. Neutralize all imams, who are the sole source of moslem vitriol.
2. Reduce the mosques to dust.
3. Deport all moslem believers to their countries of origin.
I try to stay above the fray on most matters of high tension, but with today’s atrocity enough is enough. The West had better realize what it’s faced with and act before it’s too late. They’re coming and we have no plan nor backbone to stop it. sd


16 posted on 07/22/2011 2:05:32 PM PDT by shotdog (I love my country. It's our government I'm afraid of.)
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I agree. We need to find out who did this and execute them publicly.
the next time there is an honor killing the men involved need to be castrated and then hung in public right in the middle of “rag town.” They must be harshly informed that they are no longer in a world that they have already ruined and that we are not going to stand by and let them destroy ours. We will not let it happen even if it means that we must eliminate or deport every last muslim in this country. It is time to lock and load and play cowboys and muslims!!!!! Don't tell me how islam is a religion of peace. The only peace you will get from me is a piece of land to bury you in.
17 posted on 07/22/2011 2:05:39 PM PDT by oldenuff2no (Rangers lead the way...... Delta, the original European home land security)
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they caught 2 of the muslims huh?- they should waterboard them with “acid”


18 posted on 07/22/2011 2:06:38 PM PDT by chicken head
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If we acted like we are now during WWII, we would be speaking German or Japanese. We should have learned from Viet Nam. Our leaders, especially the one in office now, have lost the will to respond to anyone that attacks us and expects us to just fall in line. I don’t think so. If this keeps up, he will see the people start to respond in a way that will close this administration.


19 posted on 07/22/2011 2:06:45 PM PDT by RC2
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Don’t be upset. Always keep in mind that Islam is basically a ROP. Isn’t that what government has told us in the past?

Look at our congresscritters — you don’t see them upset with the way Islam is changing our society, do you? As long as they are happy with the situation, so should you be.

Perhaps a generous contribution to the building of the 911 mosque will easy your anxiety.


20 posted on 07/22/2011 2:08:00 PM PDT by 353FMG
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