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Thursday, August 03, 2006


The Terrorism Awards

So I guess terrorism is funny now. To some people.

Personally, I don't think this will ever make me laugh.

Stuff like this worries me. It seems as though there are elements out there in the world who would like us to forget that Islamic terrorism exists altogether. It's as though they'd like us to return to the pre-9/11 mentality, where terrorists were just people you heard about on the news or saw in bad action movies. They don't want to call terrorists terrorists, and they sure as hell don't want us in the middle east fighting against the conditions that breed terrorism.

Nope. They'd rather we all just sit at home within our own borders and pretend like everything's hunky-dory. That terrorists are just guys with funny beards that we can laugh at. All while entire armies of zealots in the middle east plot new and creative ways to murder our civilians, disrupt our economies and bring down our governments.

It's all kind of reminiscent of that story about the Roman Emperor Nero who fiddled while Rome burned.

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Avatar for Chad Evans

“It seems as though there are elements out there in the world who would like us to forget that Islamic terrorism exists altogether. It’s as though they’d like us to return to the pre-9/11 mentality, where terrorists were just people you heard about on the news or saw in bad action movies.”

You could futher than that.  There’s an element out there that doesn’t even believe there is such a thing as a radical Islamic terrorist group (i.e. Michael Moore in 2003 “There is no terrorist threat”).  To those it’s impossible to return to a pre-9/11 mentality because their mentality hasn’t ever changed.  The bombings in Madrid, London, Amman, Bali, in the Sinai, all over Iraq, Lahore, Mumbai, etc. are just random events never orchestrated nor planned; they certainly have no greater purpose.

As to whether we should laugh at those who carry out such acts, I firmly believe we should, but we should recognize they do pose a threat.  I rather enjoy picking apart their statements, actions and plans.

Chad Evans on August 3, 2006 at 08:42 pm
Avatar for robert108

I think we should laugh at them after we kill them.

robert108 on August 3, 2006 at 08:48 pm
Avatar for Bat One

Robert108,

No sir.  To disparage or disrespect your enemy in any way, even after you have soundly defeated him, is to risk your own self-respect and preparedness by diminishing that which you have faced and defeated.  A warrior must never surrender his superiority, or his edge.  You know this.

Bat One on August 3, 2006 at 09:04 pm
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Bat: Good point.  My tongue was only halfway protruding from my cheek.

robert108 on August 3, 2006 at 09:11 pm

rob said, It seems as though there are elements out there in the world who would like us to forget that Islamic terrorism exists altogether.

You know what’s even better? When leftists play the equivalence card by bringing up Christian extremists who bomb abortion clinics as if there were entire armies of people who do such things. It seems that I read that equivalence a few times a week (sometimes made by commenters on this very website).

Shows you how serious some people are.

likwidshoe on August 3, 2006 at 09:22 pm
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and the winner is . . .

tyler on August 3, 2006 at 09:25 pm
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If I remember correctly, there have been five or less abortion clinic bombings, total, and that was a few years ago.  Typical lying leftie equivalence, once again.

robert108 on August 3, 2006 at 09:37 pm
Avatar for Bat One

Reading discussions like this, I’m reminded of Col. Walter Kurtz, and I wonder whether Mr. Coppola really meant him to be a caricature of the off-the-deep-end warrior as was so popularly thought by critics and knowing media pundits, or whether instead the real caricature was everyone else who refused to acknowledge the horrific nature of what it really takes to win against a ruthlessly committed foe.

We most certainly face such a foe today, although few of our leaders and opinion makers can bring themselves to acknowledge just what horrors may yet lie in store.

It wasn’t the enemy that drove Kurtz mad… if he was indeed made.  Nor was it the enemy that killed him.

So who’s the madman?  The one who will do literally anything to survive and win… or the one who deludes himself into thinking that nothing more is required than a set of goodly intentions and a self-righteous understanding of his enemy’s plight?

Bat One on August 3, 2006 at 09:40 pm
Avatar for Friend of USA

I had never seen that video, call me a whimp but it brought tears to my eyes to think how the guy must have felt, and then to think that some people dare say the Bush Administration orchestrated that makes me raging mad.

Friend of USA on August 4, 2006 at 06:19 pm
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