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?"
BTT
Ok, so you're saying that a meager force of 107 pilots who volunteered to fight for another country, mostly for cash and love of flying, somehow constitutes a US war against Japan?
If so, your sense of proportion is truly astounding and may explain your other peculiar reasoning that everything, including December 7th, was "planned" -- by us.
America's Fifth Column ... watch PBS documentary JIHAD! In America
http://12thman.us/media/jihad.rm (Requires RealPlayer)
If 19 Muslims from various Middle Eastern nations hijack U.S. passenger jets and crash them into buildings in New York and Washington (killing 3,000+ Americans in the process), does this constitute an act of war on the part of Afghanistan, Iraq, or any other nation against the United States?
Under the Bush Doctrine it doesn't have to be an act of war. We will preemptively strike terrorists -- and their sponsors -- whenever and wherever necessary.
But tell me, this is where we began, aren't we getting rather far afield?
Get real. Those events were simply accidents of timing. All three of these Democrat presidents were elected (Truman as part of the ticket) because Mr. & Mrs. America thought they would get more in their wallets, not because of any desire for war things or to protect ourselves from leftists.
America's Fifth Column ... watch PBS documentary JIHAD! In America
http://12thman.us/media/jihad.rm (Requires RealPlayer)
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