Posted on 06/22/2004 9:47:27 AM PDT by Maigrey
By Crom, that's an insult to Conan and other barbarians everywhere!!
I, and others, understood what you meant. Evidently the person who attacked you lacks the skill of reading comprehension, and was never taught manners. Weird. Self-esteem building, perhaps.
Please be careful not to follow the press's lead and give this enemy undue credit, which does mock our far mightier military - and their Commander in Chief on High.
We had a young gang of misguided thugs in our community a few years back, gave themselves a cool title, killed a local beloved music teacher just for fun.
The national press hyped the incident, played up their 'cool name' - inspired other would-be brat-thugs.
Our community lifted up the family of the teacher, condemned the acts of these 'children' and did not give the enemy undue credit.
Our military could, at any moment, take out a nation, a community. They prove their strength and honor by their self-restraint, under provocation, daily.
We are making progress.
The press is censoring it.
The people are still following proven untrustworthy news sources.
Our troops knew the inhumane history of this enemy before they went to war.
Fifteen months of long days for courageous troops - who've won every single engagement with the enemy - and Americans still don't know the nature of the enemy, or their own countrymen?
We should be celebrating our warriors, on good days and bad - and praise them even when the enemy howls obscenities from the headlines of our own free press.
Right now I'm not sure the media is willing to report anything that is factually good about any of this.
We saw the lies put forth last week by the major news orgs.
Bush's problem is he's fighting 2 front wars overseas and at home.
The Dems and their willing media allies have now stooped so low as to be "pedaling lies" on the front pages daily.
It's tough but I think the Prez will win out in the long run(by Nov 2)IMHO
If nothing else, I sleep better knowing this. Seriesly. Try it.
I think it would be better if Bush did have a statement.
what can the iraqi police do at this point? looks at the DC sniper case, how many Americans were killed right here in our own country while Chief Moose was figuring out if the description of the car should be released?
"Despite" is probably the wrong word. Because is more like it. Failure to send troops after this would be tantamount to a green light for similar NK hijinks.
Your ignorance is apalling.
The whole country would've been nuked flat.
We only had two nukes. Used them both, and the military still had plenty of fight in them. We couldn't have nuked the whole country flat. And we never won a war nuking everything flat. Never! The Emperor alone stopped... he alone said enough.
And if you think that we are losing this war, then you have perception problems.
again aljazeera is the mouth piece. I am not advocating I repeat I am not advocating throwing Molotov cocktails into the offices and vehicles of Al Jazeera reporters.... That would be wrong even if it could be easily done. Really easy.
make some concrete proposals on what Bush could do to stop kidnapping and killings of individiual persons?
I will ping you to this as well...
MY COMMENTS WERE NOT REGARDING PROGRESS ON THE WOT.
I will attempt to expound on my thoughts further in the future. Again, I know what is going on. I fully understand it. I will have a degree in Middle Eastern Studies in one semester and I am learning Arabic to attempt to help combat this problem. Why must people assume 'the worst' about a simple comment?
I got the impression that the decision to send SK troops was in discussion up until today, but will keep my ear out for update reports. I do appreciate the SK's not going "madrid, Spain" on this one.
Maybe we can convince them he's a pygmy hippo, well maybe a not a pygmy one. Only after they've done him, can we reveal his true species. Actually he's more like a hippo anyway, pigs are fairly smart.
IIRC, his reasoning was based on the casualties at Okinawa, where we lost a lot in killed and wounded in a pretty small island. (I'm sure he also considered the 200,000 civilian casualties there, though they were probably not his primary concern.)
Thus, the obliteration of major cities does work. In this case, in the current age, there is no city to obliterate - thus a major problem of terrorism.
r9etb is not ignorant of history. In fact, he is doing a good job of informing you of the reality in Japan...
Pardon if this has been posted on this thread
The Grave of the Hundred Heads -Kipling
There's a widow in sleepy Chester
Who weeps for her only son;
There's a grave on the Pabeng River,
A grave that the Burmans shun,
And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri
Who tells how the work was done.
A Snider squibbed in the jungle,
Somebody laughed and fled,
And the men of the First Shikaris
Picked up their Subaltern dead,
With a big blue mark in his forehead
And the back blown out of his head.
Subadar Prag Tewarri,
Jemadar Hira Lal,
Took command of the party,
Twenty rifles in all,
Marched them down to the river
As the day was beginning to fall.
They buried the boy by the river,
A blanket over his face --
They wept for their dead Lieutenant,
The men of an alien race --
They made a samadh in his honor,
A mark for his resting-place.
For they swore by the Holy Water,
They swore by the salt they ate,
That the soul of Lieutenant Eshmitt Sahib
Should go to his God in state;
With fifty file of Burman
To open him Heaven's gate.
The men of the First Shikaris
Marched till the break of day,
Till they came to the rebel village,
The village of Pabengmay --
A jingal covered the clearing,
Calthrops hampered the way.
Subadar Prag Tewarri,
Bidding them load with ball,
Halted a dozen rifles
Under the village wall;
Sent out a flanking-party
With Jemadar Hira Lal.
The men of the First Shikaris
Shouted and smote and slew,
Turning the grinning jingal
On to the howling crew.
The Jemadar's flanking-party
Butchered the folk who flew.
Long was the morn of slaughter,
Long was the list of slain,
Five score heads were taken,
Five score heads and twain;
And the men of the First Shikaris
Went back to their grave again,
Each man bearing a basket
Red as his palms that day,
Red as the blazing village --
The village of Pabengmay,
And the "drip-drip-drip" from the baskets
Reddened the grass by the way.
They made a pile of their trophies
High as a tall man's chin,
Head upon head distorted,
Set in a sightless grin,
Anger and pain and terror
Stamped on the smoke-scorched skin.
Subadar Prag Tewarri
Put the head of the Boh
On the top of the mound of triumph,
The head of his son below,
With the sword and the peacock-banner
That the world might behold and know.
Thus the samadh was perfect,
Thus was the lesson plain
Of the wrath of the First Shikaris --
The price of a white man slain;
And the men of the First Shikaris
Went back into camp again.
Then a silence came to the river,
A hush fell over the shore,
And Bohs that were brave departed,
And Sniders squibbed no more;
For he Burmans said
That a kullah's head
Must be paid for with heads five score.
There's a widow in sleepy Chester
Who weeps for her only son;
There's a grave on the Pabeng River,
A grave that the Burmans shun,
And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri
Who tells how the work was done.
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