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Who's Your Daddy, Now? (Why Berg Got Whacked)
Vanity ^ | 12 May 2004 | .cnI redruM

Posted on 05/12/2004 9:28:30 AM PDT by .cnI redruM

The Roman Emperor Domitian ruled with an iron hand. He beat down all opposition and brutalized his enemies with an 'aw shucks' grin on his face. His trademark slogan was 'Oderint dum metuent' which can be loosely translated to 'Let them hate me as long as they fear me.'

He made this statement after his son Titus put Jerusalem to the torch and a very large number of its inhabitants to the gladius. It was Domitian's way of saying that he practised terrorism for the simple reason that it worked.

It worked in the 1st Century AD and it works like a charm today. When Al Quaida told it's fixers to shorten Nicholas Berg by a head, they claimed anger as their motive. This propaganda belies the realpolitik behind this act of primevil butchery.

Al Quaida butchered Berg for the same reason that pimps slap their hookers. There were a few Americans out there that just didn't seem obsequious enough over the prison abuse scandal and it was time for Al Quaida to administer discipline.

The thugs who shot Berg wanted Edward Kennedy, John F. Kerry and every member of the appeasement establishment to see what they were capable of and take another shot of cowardice. They need to make sure Rep Murtha loadly decries the unwinnability of Iraq from the top of the towers (the one's still standing at least). This is their way of running a campaign add on behalf of Mr. Kerry.

Yes, they tell America to come home. It's time to allow our national testicles to retract back up into the abdominal cavity of out body politic. Just retreat back across the ocean because we lack the spirit to handle the likes of Al Quaida.

Terrorism, for the likes of Al Quaida, is a very straightforward form of campaign speech. it tells Howard Dean and those of his despicable ilk, the extent to which they will allow America to operate. It's the Arab method of sending a message or as Nate Dawg would say "Time to regulate."

The terrorists are no more angry at us after Abu Ghraib than they were before. The beheading of Nichalos Berg was a chess move to them. A diplomatic communique. The cowards among us heard it loud and clear.

Al Quaida has succeeded well at Mau-Mauing a gathering of weak and effeminate flak-catchers. The incident asks us all a simple and contemptuous question. "Who's your Daddy?"


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; alquaida; intimidation; iraq; nickberg
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To: JCG
Do a search on the Flying Tigers, and Claire Chennault. The U.S. was training Chinese pilots in Manchuria as early as 1938-39, and was supporting a group of "volunteer" pilots against the Japanese in 1941 before Pearl Harbor.

You might also want to do some research on Roosevelt's dicussions with both the Dutch and British governments in early 1941 (Roosevelt basically committed the U.S. to defend British and Dutch possessions in the Pacific regardless of whether the U.S. was officially at war with Japan), along with the extension of "lend-lease" arrangements to China that year.

101 posted on 05/12/2004 6:31:02 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium . . . sed ego sum homo indomitus" -- William Wallace (Mel Gibson))
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To: Conspiracy Guy
Kerry, if elected, would be forced to fight for real butonly after we lose a couple of cities. I fear that the Crat approach to war will shut down the economy and finally finish the Constitution.
102 posted on 05/12/2004 7:12:49 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: Big Guy and Rusty 99
It is not yet time to do Mecca. But it will be.
103 posted on 05/12/2004 7:14:45 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: Alberta's Child
I think you got it.
104 posted on 05/12/2004 7:16:39 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: George Smiley
Yes. Wolfe's "Radical Chic..." was a dead-on indictment of the Fifth Avenue wannabes.
105 posted on 05/12/2004 7:19:05 PM PDT by bootless (Never Forget - And Never Again)
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To: .cnI redruM
Belloc bump.
106 posted on 05/12/2004 7:19:21 PM PDT by Cap'n Crunch
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We say to the Defense Secretary that his talk can induce a grieving mother to laughter! . . . Where was this false courage of yours when the explosion in Beirut took place in 1983? . . . You [were] turned into scattered pits and pieces at that time; 241 mainly marine soldiers were killed. And where was this courage of yours when two explosions made you leave Aden in less than twenty-four hours! But your most disgraceful case was in Somalia; where—after vigorous propaganda about the power of the USA and its post–Cold War leadership of the new world order—you moved tens of thousands of an international force, including twenty-eight thousand American soldiers, into Somalia. However, when tens of your soldiers were killed in minor battles and one American pilot was dragged in the streets of Mogadishu you left the area carrying disappointment, humiliation, defeat and your dead with you. . . . You have been disgraced by Allah and you withdrew. The extent of your impotence and weaknesses became very clear.-- Bin Laden
107 posted on 05/12/2004 7:25:38 PM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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To: Alberta's Child
Shhhh! They don't know this. They view us through their own window on insanity!
108 posted on 05/12/2004 7:46:16 PM PDT by wingnuts'nbolts (Keep your eye on the donut not on the hole!!!)
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To: stainlessbanner
This was their chance to "show us"... I can't wait for the body count. There will be no solace for them now. Remember Ms. Lynch and her captors. She thankfully made it out with some of her unit, but the captors are dusted.
109 posted on 05/12/2004 7:52:04 PM PDT by Terridan (God help us send these Islamic Extremist savages back into Hell where they belong...)
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To: .cnI redruM
I thought Titus was the son of Vespasian.
110 posted on 05/12/2004 7:57:47 PM PDT by ET(end tyranny) (Isaiah 47:4 - Our Redeemer, YHWH of hosts is His name, The Holy One of Israel.)
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To: the Real fifi
The public outrage at Zarqawi and the Dems is so thick you can cut it with even AQ'a dull knife.

Do you really think so? Today on CBS radio news after leading with the nasty prison abuse, the Communist BS station then talked about the sawing off a head of an American as revenge, followed by polls showing that Bush is losing more support for HIS war in Iraq.

I wish I could believe that people actually see what the demonrats are doing.

111 posted on 05/12/2004 8:04:02 PM PDT by ladyinred (The left has blood on their hands, Again!)
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To: .cnI redruM
Bump
112 posted on 05/12/2004 8:41:24 PM PDT by Darnright
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To: ladyinred
There's a great article in today's Times (UK) online you might like to look at.Ask the idiots at that station if they think Berg was snatched on April 11 because Zarqawi foresaw the scandal at the prison? STUPID.
113 posted on 05/12/2004 8:51:30 PM PDT by the Real fifi
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To: .cnI redruM
BTTT
114 posted on 05/12/2004 8:55:43 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: George Smiley
"The reference is to Tom Wolfe's "Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers" which is a marvelous exposition on the idiotic posturing of cosmopolitan liberals and government bureaucrats which frequently took place in the late Sixties."

"One of the two best Wolfe books ever written."

Right on. Radical Chic is one of the best and most amusing books I've ever read. Now excuse me while I go put on my turtle neck sweater.

115 posted on 05/12/2004 11:32:36 PM PDT by bd476 (Walking in faith is easier on my soul than walking in fear.)
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To: .cnI redruM
The thugs who shot Berg wanted Edward Kennedy,

Good points but they didn't shoot Berg. That would have been merciful.

116 posted on 05/12/2004 11:34:25 PM PDT by Texasforever (The French love John Kerry. He is their new Jerry Lewis)
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To: sartorius
I'm preaching to the choir, but wretchard of the Belmont club Blogspot, gave a good summary of this very behavior tracing it back to Reagan's pullout of the Marines from Lebanon in 1983 after the bombing. In response, the bad guys figured us to be gutless and have acted accordingly. For full details, see the Belmont Club and especially read the article in April called "No More Groupement 100s." This is why we can run but cannot hide and Bush knows it.

Could you post the link?

117 posted on 05/13/2004 12:06:34 AM PDT by Dec31,1999 (Capital punishment saves lives.)
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To: redhead
This reminds me... Why is the stock market taking a nosedive? Is George Soros pulling some strings?

Could be, but I doubt it.

I'd wager that the promise of higher interest rates and the current rise in fuel prices are about to set off a round of inflation.

118 posted on 05/13/2004 12:11:14 AM PDT by Dec31,1999 (Capital punishment saves lives.)
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To: arthurus
That is exactly right.
119 posted on 05/13/2004 4:34:02 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (Proudly not proofreading since Jan 1954.)
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To: .cnI redruM
Bump
120 posted on 05/13/2004 4:45:50 AM PDT by Robert Drobot (God, family, country. All else is meaningless.)
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