Posted on 09/21/2001 4:15:15 PM PDT by jdege
This is not a complicated issue. There are people who hate us. Their hatred of us is ancient. Now, what I would like to know from all the hug-and-love people is just what they anticipate might come as a result of proceeding tentatively, trying to understand, exercising caution. This enemy doesn't want our love. They don't want you to throw your arm around their shoulders and invite them to the next backyard barbecue.
The brand of hatred practiced by Muslim terrorists is based on the belief that we are inconsequential and do not deserve to be on the same earth. Now, let me ask the hug-therapy-and-forgiveness crowd something else: You are the same people who worship at the new American altar of diversity. We are to be understanding of the differences among us, you say. I agree. We are all human souls under different kinds of skin. I buy that.
Why then, don't you expect the same from the terrorists? These people obviously don't practice any acknowledgement of diversity. You want to forgive and hug and proceed slowly and not rock the boat. Well, why don't you demand of the enemy that they, too, welcome diversity, meaning that they should welcome us? Their idea of diversity is to kill as many different kinds of Americans as they can.
For example, I do not intend to hijack any airliners and dive-bomb them into Mecca. Right off the bat that makes me more enlightened than the thugs who killed us in New York and Washington.
Yes, of course, in America we are all entitled to our opinions no matter how ridiculous they might appear in print. And more and more letters to the editor will appear that call for us to hold hands and light a candle and sing songs about butterflies and maybe this will all go away. Do you know what you sound like with such gibberish? You sound like spoiled, selfish people who want to click your heels three times and maybe you will end up back in Kansas. The hug-therapy-and-forgiveness crowd needs to read more. They need to think beyond their own feelings.
This enemy hates us. Let's even go the extra mile and try to see it from a love-and-hug-therapy perspective. Let's say we do what the love crowd wants us to do. Let's say we turn the other cheek and hope that our actions do not cause further terrorist attacks on our country. OK, I am trying to imagine that, and I am coming up with a blank. These people do not wish to own a little fuel-efficient car and go antiquing on weekends.
The only thing we should do with caution is plan the military strategy. I will be the first to agree that bombing Afghanistan is not the answer. Maybe isolated pockets here and there when we find out where the rats are hiding, but the country is already a devastated mess.
And caution is needed to understand that this enemy has nothing of material value to bomb and does not covet our material bounty. They don't want our land. And for all you hug therapists who worry that our driving SUVs brought about this attack, don't worry yourself needlessly. They don't even want the oil that you feel guilty about using.
They want us dead. If you want something to pray about, pray that it won't take a million Americans dead the next time before we all realize the truth.
And if you need to hug somebody, hug the soldiers getting ready to mobilize or those firefighters in New York who are bloodied and shell-shocked from digging in the rubble.
Joe Soucheray can be reached at jsoucheray@pioneerpress.com or (651) 228-5474. Soucheray is heard 2-5 p.m. weekdays on KSTP AM 1500.
I got an email from someone I don't know:
Carmen Lynn
swinglyn@mindspring.com
Subject: Justice not Terror I want the murderers responsible for the massacre in New York and at the Pentagon to be found, but I want Americans to be proud of what we're going to do now in the years to come. I hope you'll join me in signing an online statement of support for "Justice, not Terror" at: http://www.moveon.org/justice/ http://www.moveon.org/justice/
I feel highly insulted -like this is implying that WE are terrorists or might conduct ourselves like terrorists!!!!
Am I being too sensitive? Just wondering what the FReepers think about this!!
Thanks for listening!!
Thank you. Your participation could really make a difference -- it's vital that we all speak up now, before it's too late.
The civilized world. Why?
Question: How do you tell the "moderate" moslem from the covert radical jihadist?
Answer: You can't, you just have to wait for the bomb to explode.
TM - I work with a guy from Bosnia. He's Catholic (Eastern Orthodox?) and he's been here with his wife for about 2 years. His family is still in the Balkans. He's generally quiet, but just this morning, he expressed the same sentiments you did in your half-joke/riddle. This guy was going ballistic over the Muslim siutation. He briefly explained that before war broke out in his homeland, everyone lived side-by-side in peace. When TSHTF, every Muslim became a "cut-throat". This guy was almost in tears by the time he was finished speaking, and the last thing he said (in his heavy Slavic accent) was "Americans are too nice - too naive. You do not know the minds of the Muslims, and I don't think you would."
My daughter finally agreed to convert to Islam (rather to my dismay) so that the family would agree to meet her and would reconcile with their son. The in-laws expect my daughter to wear their form of dress when they come to this country to visit. The father became a U.S. citizen only because he got a HUGE raise in pay on his job in the ME country due to being a U.S. citizen (don't know why, just know it's true). The family lives mostly in the ME country and have no intention to be Americans (with the clear exception of our son-in-law.)
We have not insisted that our son-in-law become a Christian; we welcomed him into our family just the way he is. No one here insists that his family wear western-style clothing when they are here; they insist my daughter dress like them (in her own country, yet) and practice their religion. I couldn't be happier with my son-in-law; he is really a sweetheart. His family must consist of good people if they raised him. They are definitely NOT terrorists, and I don't blame them at all, in any way, for what has happened in NY or DC. BUT, tolerant, they are NOT. They are not Shiites, either; they are Sunni.
Tolerance as a one-way street doesn't seem to work terribly well. An awful lot of Americans are ignorant and naive about certain aspects of Islam.
Then it's clear he wants to be some kind of dictator of the entire Middle East. He wants no other leaders ---he uses the accusation they are controlled by the West. He wants no Israeli expansion, obviously only the Islamics are allowed to expand---even into the US. He is nothing but an evil man very much like Hitler who was also determined to kill all the Jews and rule as much of the world as he could.
I think we should immediately set up a peace corps in the Middle East countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Saudi, Egypt and a few others and send all the peaceniks to teach political correctness and love to their Muslim friends. Let them put their money ---or rather their lives ---where their mouths are.
Preferably ours.
I responded that I wasn't sure what pacifist meant but that I had seen that Harrison Ford movie about the Amish and it was encouraging that she was patriotic. As for the peace, I informed her that was all well and good after we have utterly crushed our enemies both abroad and from within
I haven't heard back from her. God bless the lambs I suppose. (till they break weak and start to peel off) Just stay the hell outta the way!!!!
Actually I think people in Berkley should read this and any exploding heads will be so much the better.
Stay well - Stay safe - stay armed - Yorktown
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