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Smelling Blood
Steyn Online ^ | 8 Sep 2026 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 09/09/2026 12:49:57 PM PDT by Rummyfan

In a few days, America will be marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of 9/11. The observances will be muted here, because it's too sad: we lost the war, not only in the narrow military sense (the Taliban are back in power in Kabul, etc), but in the broader defeat represented by the post-Motoon surrender on free speech, the nightly invasions by Muslim men of English and Continental ports, the ugly security procedures that now attend the bollard-encircled ancient German Christmas markets, and ultimately the reorientation of the generally useless post-9/11 surveillance state as a tool of domestic control. As I wrote on Sunday:

An al-Qaeda guy has been installed with American approval as strongman of Syria; the Christian community in Iraq was extinguished on America's watch; the Libyan intervention delivered the North African ports closest to Europe into the hands of Isis, with direct consequences for Continental demographics; and - just to confirm the 'war on terror' was utterly lost and always misconceived - a Shia Twelver from Uganda who believes in everything the guys we're droning in Tehran believe is Giuliani's successor as Mayor of New York City and the new kingmaker of the Democrat Party. If the United States Government had been working for the other side all along, what exactly would it have done differently?

In the media, the month before 9/11 was a weird, accelerating accumulation of trivial preoccupations, culminating in the ludicrous western prostrations before an international racism conference. Indeed, August 2001 seems far more relevant to where we are now than September 11th does.....

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1 posted on 09/09/2026 12:49:57 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan
For Americans, September 11th brought to a close the post-Cold War era, the period that began with the fall of the Berlin Wall. For a significant proportion of Muslims, September 11th was the culmination of a quite different timeline - an era that was inaugurated on October 23rd 1983, when Hezbollah suicide bombers killed 300 American and French soldiers in Beirut and prompted their governments to pull out of Lebanon. From a Muslim point of view, the suicide bomber is as reliable as the Maxim gun was: sometimes he brings victory, as in Beirut; sometimes he attracts a barely minimal response, as in Bill Clinton's desultory retaliations to bin Laden's ever more brazen provocations during the Nineties; and sometimes he is rewarded by public admonitions to his victims, as when the EU et al urge "restraint" on the part of Israel after Hamas or Islamic Jihad have blown up a few more pregnant women in a shopping mall.
2 posted on 09/09/2026 12:53:29 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support lthe civilized man.)
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To: Rummyfan

They hate us for our freedom. S/


3 posted on 09/09/2026 12:57:32 PM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Death to the DEATH TO AMERICA, Democrats.)
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To: Wilderness Conservative
That hate is their religion.
4 posted on 09/09/2026 1:04:05 PM PDT by right way right (“May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope")
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To: Rummyfan

The shark analogy is spot on.


5 posted on 09/09/2026 1:08:30 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: Wilderness Conservative

But if it hadn’t been for the “neutralists” and “self-haters” in the EU, our foreign offices, in the mainstream media, in the liberal universities, and a majority of our politicians, we would have won and the problem with Islam would have been over and done with.


6 posted on 09/09/2026 1:09:03 PM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: Rummyfan; All

It was always about political Islam domination. Now they have a powerful tool to enter in the government. It’s called the DSA claiming to care about “groceries,”


7 posted on 09/09/2026 1:09:49 PM PDT by Freeleesy
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To: Wilderness Conservative

“They hate us for our freedom.”

I remember that idiotic statement from Bush II. Yeah, Muslims hate us because we can vote for the local school board members.

Of course his “Islam is peace” statement was much worse. It set the tone. We weren’t attacked by a vicious death cult, you see. We were attacked by a bunch of lone wolves.


8 posted on 09/09/2026 1:12:28 PM PDT by Leaning Right
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To: Leaning Right

The way it was framed was almost like the towers were hit by rogue airplanes, and not individuals flying those planes with a murderous ideology behind them.


9 posted on 09/09/2026 1:17:32 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: Leaning Right
This SOB was sent in to FINISH THE JOB STARTED ON 9/11! Thank GOD, despite trying with all he had, HE'S FAILED...SO FAR!


10 posted on 09/09/2026 1:22:08 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (lolLOLLL)
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To: Rummyfan

We really should have nuked Mecca on 9/12 and declared it as a crusade. We should have been proud and resolute in that action.


11 posted on 09/09/2026 1:32:13 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Enoch Powell warned us about Rivers of Blood. Well, I sure hope they're coming. It's the only fix.)
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To: Rummyfan

bttt


12 posted on 09/09/2026 1:36:11 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: ScaniaBoy

> and a majority of our politicians

George W. Bush first and foremost.

Dubya set us back at least 25 years in properly addressing the problem.


13 posted on 09/09/2026 1:57:25 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Ya know.... I agree. Our response after 9/11 should have been a lot stronger and less ‘islam-is-peace-we-dont-want-to-hurt-anyone’s-feelings’.


14 posted on 09/09/2026 2:10:30 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support lthe civilized man.)
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To: Dick Bachert

Never forget when that demonic fly-infested Obama creature wanted to create an army of Nazi brown-shirts for America.

“We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” - July 2, 2008.

Obama during the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver stood in front of a replica Throne of Satan, (Pergamon Alter to Zeus) we’ve talked about this here in times past. This is also mentioned in the new book by Rabbi Cahn.


15 posted on 09/09/2026 3:11:10 PM PDT by captmar-vell
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To: Rummyfan

When a lot of us Gen X men called military recruiters after that (they said I couldn’t serve due to a prior medical condition), not one of us was hoping Bush would change his tune from “We’re gonna make them pay!!” to we’d be fighting a nameless enemy called “terror” all our lives, because there won’t be a treaty signing moment like on the USS Missouri, because Islam is a religion of peace, etc.


16 posted on 09/09/2026 3:15:45 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Rummyfan

I was just thinking, after Pearl Harbor we declared war, prosecuted it with extreme prejuduce, and didn’t stop until Japan was rubble. After 9 11 we’ve dicked around for 25 years and the problem still exists just the same. Japan was eminently redeemable while middle east moslem scum are not. Needs to be finished once and for all and the current paddy cake with Iran isn’t going to do it. IMHO.


17 posted on 09/09/2026 3:35:58 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo )
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To: Dick Bachert

Sadly you are wrong!! The Muslims have CONQUERED US!!! MOSQUES ARE EVERYWHERE.....MUSLIMS ARE JUDGES....MUSLIMS ARE IN OUR MILITARY.......IN OUR SCHOOLS.......IN OUR GOVERNMENT BIG TIME! NO....THEY HAVE CONQUERED US!!


18 posted on 09/09/2026 4:15:40 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

Sadly you are wrong!! The Muslims have CONQUERED US!!! MOSQUES ARE EVERYWHERE.....MUSLIMS ARE JUDGES....MUSLIMS ARE IN OUR MILITARY.......IN OUR SCHOOLS.......IN OUR GOVERNMENT BIG TIME! NO....THEY HAVE CONQUERED US!!

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Sadly true

Islam this all hangs together.
Do we have the courage to do the awful hard things?
JAMES MITCHELL: No. Eh, here’s what Americans I think don’t know. When they kill people, it’s an act of worship. One of the things that became clear to me when I was talking with these guys is that one way they show their love for Allah and one way they show how powerful Allah is, is by slaughtering people who are helpless to prevent it. So when they, you know, they cut the throat of a Yazidis sex slave and she bleeds out in a bowel, that’s actually an act of worship. It’s not an act of aggression.
You know, when they crucify children or burn people in cages or in KSM’s case when he decapitated Daniel Pearl and then dismembered his [Mark: right] cut his arms and legs off and stacked him a hole, that was not a, an, act of anger. It was an act of love for his god and he feels as though he shows his god how powerful his god is by how helpless innocent people are to prevent their destruction.
JAMES MITCHELL: Well we assume it’s important for them to like us. [Mark: Yeah] And that, and that if they, if they only liked us, if they only understood that we want to live in peace with them, then everything would be okay, but it’s actually the opposite. What KSM told me was that our judicial system, our Bill of Rights, our civil liberties, our desire to have other people in the world like us were all weapons that Allah had placed in our minds so that we could be defeated by the Islamists who were the true, had the true dominion of the world.
MARK STEYN: But, let me bring it back to you personally. When I visited Gitmo, the guys running the joint said one of the problems they’d had there was that the very eminent legal representation that the detainees have...there was a concerted effort to identify people working at the camp and actually find out their names and intimidate their family members and all the rest of it. And, and the one guard told me he said the biggest chill was when one of the prisoners looked at him and said he knew his wife and children’s names.
You were exposed to that. The lawyers for these guys—
JAMES MITCHELL: They put it in their privilege bag [Mark: Yeah] so they couldn’t be searched [Mark: Yeah] and they smuggled the photos of me and several other people who were not even part of the interrogation program. [Mark: Right] But some people who are, who were, who were still undercover smuggled those things in to Guantanamo, gave them to KSM, gave them to – well, they showed them to all of those folks. [Mark: Right] And that case has not been completely resolved. You know it was just recently turned over to some small investigative outfit associated with the Navy. Uh, [Mark: Right] and that case has not been resolved.
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There is a battle between good and evil being waged and the evidence of that is clearly seen in the daily news reports. Pick up a New York newspaper and you will read reports of innocent people being pushed in front of subway trains or stabbed for absolutely no reason. The cover of yesterday’s New York Post is about a woman shot dead by the NYPD after she stabbed two strangers in Times Square, killing one.
The film Nefarious is basically about a demon explaining how the Devil works on seducing humans into evil by bribing them with whatever we desire. He also explains that demons hate humans because God loves us. and what his plan is for the human race.


19 posted on 09/09/2026 4:48:42 PM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: Texas Eagle
The shark analogy is spot on.

Spiritually, we have given up.

The current system—Globalism is not working out.

So we are waiting for it to collapse.

20 posted on 09/09/2026 4:50:32 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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