Posted on 09/12/2001 6:16:58 PM PDT by LibertarianLiz
Bump.
The world comes to you when you shoot missiles at aspirin factories in the Sudan, drop bombs on Serbian civilians, blockade and starve to death 600,000 Iraqi children, and support Israel as its troops machine-gun Palestinian civilians.
In Durban, we sat quietly and looked at our shoes as they ranked white people for imperialism and slavery that hasn't happened in 150 years. But when they started comparing Zionism to racism, boy, we got up and walked out in a huff!
That was less than a week ago. The timing of this attack should be obvious. The terrorists knew about the conference, they knew what was on the agenda, and they knew how the US would respond.
We can continue to believe, in the words of Joe Sobran, that they hate us for our virtues. But the truth is that they hate us because we support the killing of Arabs. And contrary to what the apologists for the Israeli government want you to believe, that's not a virtue. Nor is it anti-semitism to say it's not a virtue.
The target symbolism is what led me to believe
China has no active part in this. This was statecide,
not military attack.
. A coward would not agree to hijack a plane.
Nor would he do so as a suicide.
the delusion that you can fight terrorism with computers
from outer space just another wretched example of the nouveau warfare
pioneered by Mr. Clinton in Kosovo?
Bingo. War from 50,000 feet, cruise missiles
from safely off shore. Revenge, the soup,
was served up aplenty. War is serious
business, not the stuff of Dog Wagging.
Thank you Bill Clinton. Thank you
George Bush for not finishing the
job in Iraq and not nailing PAID to
that nest of terrorism.
Is it a virtue to point out the inaccuracies in the statement above? I think it is.
Do you think that the Barak government, under the misguided but constant pressure of the Nobel Prize coveting Bill Clinton, made so many concessions to the point of being foolish and almost suicidal to Arafat and his unrepentant terrorist army to find a reason to kill Arabs? Is that why 98% of the West Bank, and a Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem was put on the table as incentive for Arafat to come to an agreement and conclude a final peace? Did they do that to kill Arabs? Did Arafat not only not live up to any of the Oslo Accords, reject the best offer for peace that will ever come out of Israel, and plan a second intifada, months in advance, all the while negotiating with Barak and Clinton in bad faith, to give the Israeli's a reason to kill Arabs? Is that why he has encouraged use of children as human shields for snipers, and sent young men to mix with Israeli and Arab crowds and kill themselves and everyone around them as human bombs?
Do you think that America supports the killing of Arabs when there are 3.5 million + Arab Americans who support the American democracy, the American economy, and the American way of life? Did you even know that there were that many Arab Americans? Did you know that there have been Arab American citizens for more than 100 years? Both Christian and Muslim? No, I doubt that you did.
If you learn anything from this whole affair, learn this: Bin Laden is a meglomaniacal autocrat, a self styled Mahdi. He is a deadly threat to anyone that believes in the Western concepts of democracy and human rights. A spoiled, narcissistic, elitist, with a Hitlerian messianic complex.
He is being backed by tyrannical monsters like Saddam Hussein, the real starver of his own country's children. This is hardly a wild claim as he has proven his bloodlust so many times in the past. Why should he care, he has had enough children killed for their parents effrontery, for wanting to throw off his yoke of his Stalinist oppression. Bin Laden hates America because we SUPPORT Arabs, like the moderate Arab governments in Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, and mostly because we support the Saudi Royal family, his own family, which he has sworn to destroy. Arabs are not rabid dogs. Osama Bin Laden and his followers are. You should be wise enough not to confuse the two. Arabs can be and are our allies, the insanity of ultra radical Islamicist Medieval Fascist terrorists like Osama Bin Laden is a threat to our and our allies existence. And now, he has crossed the line, and so we must destroy him and his minions. It was his choice, and he has made it. If he were to suffer the hell he has visited upon the innocent, ten thousand times ten thousand, it would not be enough to satisfy justice.
See? This is exactly what we were talking about.
Thanks for the flag. Steyn is my favorite writer.
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