Our house is a very very very fine house
Among the many attractions down in Crawford at the Sheehan 3-Ring Media Circus is the Crawford Peace House.
A search of the Web Archive indicates this Peace House goes back to 2003. A version of their page from 2003 says the Crawford Peace House "offers a culturally diverse environment for spiritual growth and intellectual understanding that gives hope to humanity by providing peaceful alternatives to war."
If you click the "How To Protest" button on that 2003 page, you are taken to a page that simply lists some motels in the Crawford area. Apparently when Tom Bodett said he'd leave the light on for us at Motel 6, he meant a peace candle.
Heck, I could become a peace activist if all I had to do is shack up in a motel for a weekend.
The list of motels is below a quote from Margaret Mead. The quote says "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has".
And apparently a small group of thoughtful, committed housekeepers can change all the sheets in these motels. Inded, they're the only people who ever have.
The page does helpfully warn you, too, that your protest might need to be scheduled around Baylor football games.
Ok, enough mirth at the expense of the Crawford Peace House.
Why do I bring all this up? Well, to point out that as far back as 2003, the Peace House was a friend of the activist Left. It should not be a surprise, then, that the Peace House just happened to find itself agreeing with Cindy Sheehan's politics when she came to Crawford.
If you click the Chronicles button on that same 2003 page, you see a list of events from that year, including day of "prayer" on 9/11/2003, where "people from around the world of all faiths have joined together in a sacred circle - an energy circuit of prayer for God's power to flow wherever it is needed, uniting our hearts and minds, to raise the spiritual consciousness of humankind."
Another event that year featured Hadi Jawad, of the Dallas Peace Center, as a speaker. The Dallas Peace Center is affiliated with the Crawford Peace House, and at this page, Jawad is called the "vice president and board member of the Dallas Peace Center". Also, he is referred to as "a board member of the Crawford Peace House". Jawad has been very much present in the various circus acts lately. He is no friend of Israel, and here, Jawad seems to think the US is the one who destabilized Iraq, it being such a stable paradise under Saddam Hussein. Here is a conversation with him just a few days ago, where he talks about the current goings-on in Crawford.
But, see, this is where I get confused. I don't see the Peace House uniting a lot of hearts and minds. Quite to the contrary. Here is an example of what the Peace House was up to in March 2004. (This image came from the Peace House site.) Apparently we're over there in Iraq to colonize the place.
In fact, Sheehan herself and the whole anti-war Left must have missed out on the whole uniting hearts and minds thing, given some of things they have said. (Warning: Link contains some foul language.)
(Update: Kentucky Dan points me to a Citizen Smash story dated September 9, 2004, where activists from the Dallas Peace Center harrassed the family of a fallen soldier. The mother left in tears. Read this:
Yep, a lot of hearts and minds were united there.)
Now, I don't begrudge Sheehan and the Peace House their right to disagree with President Bush. It's a perfectly reasonable position to be troubled by all the casualties in Iraq. It is not unreasonable to be against war.
(I am not all gung-ho about war in general, I just see the necessity of it.)
However, I never hear the anti-war Left talk much about the nature of the people we are fighting in Afghanistan, Iraq, and around the world.
Perhaps the good folks at the Peace House are unaware of what the terrorists did in this house in Fallujah. I'm not sure if there is a way to make torture peaceful. Perhaps it was the kind of "intellectual understanding" the Peace House advocated in 2003 that enabled the terrorists to figure out sand could be used to soak up all the blood that resulted from the torture that went on there. Perhaps the only hope the humanity that suffered there had was that they would die quickly.
Perhaps the good folks at the Peace House are also unaware of this particular torture house. Perhaps the men found there, the ones who said "that they had been tortured with electric shocks and flogged with a strip of rubber for more than two weeks", thought the only "small group of thoughtful, committed citizens" they wanted to see was a platoon of well armed United States soldiers.
For it is these brave US soldiers who stand between us and these terrorists. It is our soldiers doing battle with these murderers every day in Iraq.
Yet, Sheehan claims Bush is the "world's biggest terrorist". I am really unsure just what units of measurement she is using, so that Bush comes out ahead of the people who deliberately blow up children.
In the end, it doesn't really matter. Sheehan can be dismissed. The philosophy that guides the Peace House, though, cannot. Until they can explain to me why their can't we all just love one another and get along way would turn these terrorists into fat, docile lumps sitting in their Iraqi barcaloungers sipping goat's milk, I really don't give a flying fig that their "dream is to create beautiful gardens conducive to prayer and meditative reflection, as well as facilities for ecumenical worship and study."
This is a fight to the death. Theirs or ours. It's for keeps. When will the anti-war Left face this evil that is loose in the world? When will they face it and say no, this must be stopped?
There is no persuading these terrorists through syrupy talks of peace. If you sat down in front of them in a protest, like some dusty relic of the 60s, the terrorists would likely rush at you, take you to the basement of some house and saw your head off with a knife. Your final sobs and blood-choked gurgles would be the feature attraction in a macabre snuff film, a favored recruiting tool in terrorist circles. What kind of twisted person takes pride in pointing to something like that and saying to someone else, "Hey, look what I can do!"?
The truth of the answer to that question has already hit home.
One sunny morning in September, 2001, moms and dads and sons and daughters left their houses and went to work, as they usually did. But this wasn't a usual morning. Before the morning had barely begun, many of them, instead of joining hands in some sacred circle to form an energy circuit of prayer, joined hands and jumped to their deaths to avoid the burning upper floors of the World Trade Center.
The terrorists don't care what the good people of Crawford Peace House think. When will the folks camped out in Crawford realize that?
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Strata-Sphere comments on Sheehan's return to Crawford.
Betsy Newmark comments the radical Left might be having a negative effect in Democratic politics. (Via George Will)
Mark Noonan at Blogs for Bush also looks at the Left's embrace of Sheehan.
Joe Katzman, at Winds of Change, does not let Sheehan off the hook, in an amusing way.
The Belmont Club has a bang spot-on take on these cancerous terrorists.
The Anchoress wonders how the radical Left will affect Hillary's future plans.
A search of the Web Archive indicates this Peace House goes back to 2003. A version of their page from 2003 says the Crawford Peace House "offers a culturally diverse environment for spiritual growth and intellectual understanding that gives hope to humanity by providing peaceful alternatives to war."
If you click the "How To Protest" button on that 2003 page, you are taken to a page that simply lists some motels in the Crawford area. Apparently when Tom Bodett said he'd leave the light on for us at Motel 6, he meant a peace candle.
Heck, I could become a peace activist if all I had to do is shack up in a motel for a weekend.
The list of motels is below a quote from Margaret Mead. The quote says "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has".
And apparently a small group of thoughtful, committed housekeepers can change all the sheets in these motels. Inded, they're the only people who ever have.
The page does helpfully warn you, too, that your protest might need to be scheduled around Baylor football games.
Ok, enough mirth at the expense of the Crawford Peace House.
Why do I bring all this up? Well, to point out that as far back as 2003, the Peace House was a friend of the activist Left. It should not be a surprise, then, that the Peace House just happened to find itself agreeing with Cindy Sheehan's politics when she came to Crawford.
If you click the Chronicles button on that same 2003 page, you see a list of events from that year, including day of "prayer" on 9/11/2003, where "people from around the world of all faiths have joined together in a sacred circle - an energy circuit of prayer for God's power to flow wherever it is needed, uniting our hearts and minds, to raise the spiritual consciousness of humankind."
Another event that year featured Hadi Jawad, of the Dallas Peace Center, as a speaker. The Dallas Peace Center is affiliated with the Crawford Peace House, and at this page, Jawad is called the "vice president and board member of the Dallas Peace Center". Also, he is referred to as "a board member of the Crawford Peace House". Jawad has been very much present in the various circus acts lately. He is no friend of Israel, and here, Jawad seems to think the US is the one who destabilized Iraq, it being such a stable paradise under Saddam Hussein. Here is a conversation with him just a few days ago, where he talks about the current goings-on in Crawford.
But, see, this is where I get confused. I don't see the Peace House uniting a lot of hearts and minds. Quite to the contrary. Here is an example of what the Peace House was up to in March 2004. (This image came from the Peace House site.) Apparently we're over there in Iraq to colonize the place.
In fact, Sheehan herself and the whole anti-war Left must have missed out on the whole uniting hearts and minds thing, given some of things they have said. (Warning: Link contains some foul language.)
(Update: Kentucky Dan points me to a Citizen Smash story dated September 9, 2004, where activists from the Dallas Peace Center harrassed the family of a fallen soldier. The mother left in tears. Read this:
Peace Activists Harass Gold Star Mother
SGT. CHAD DRAKE was killed in Baghdad three days ago. So when his family learned of a candlelight vigil in honor of our fallen soldiers to be held in their hometown of Dallas, they thought it would be a good way to begin the healing process.
As it turns out, they were wrong.
Drake's mother was "harassed and yelled at, booed and hissed, told her son died for nothing," the message read.
Drake's mother reportedly left the event in tears.
The family attended the vigil because they thought it was meant to honor U.S. casualties. The event was organized by the Dallas Peace Center, which opposes the war.
Anti-war, or just on the other side?
Yep, a lot of hearts and minds were united there.)
Now, I don't begrudge Sheehan and the Peace House their right to disagree with President Bush. It's a perfectly reasonable position to be troubled by all the casualties in Iraq. It is not unreasonable to be against war.
(I am not all gung-ho about war in general, I just see the necessity of it.)
However, I never hear the anti-war Left talk much about the nature of the people we are fighting in Afghanistan, Iraq, and around the world.
Perhaps the good folks at the Peace House are unaware of what the terrorists did in this house in Fallujah. I'm not sure if there is a way to make torture peaceful. Perhaps it was the kind of "intellectual understanding" the Peace House advocated in 2003 that enabled the terrorists to figure out sand could be used to soak up all the blood that resulted from the torture that went on there. Perhaps the only hope the humanity that suffered there had was that they would die quickly.
Perhaps the good folks at the Peace House are also unaware of this particular torture house. Perhaps the men found there, the ones who said "that they had been tortured with electric shocks and flogged with a strip of rubber for more than two weeks", thought the only "small group of thoughtful, committed citizens" they wanted to see was a platoon of well armed United States soldiers.
For it is these brave US soldiers who stand between us and these terrorists. It is our soldiers doing battle with these murderers every day in Iraq.
Yet, Sheehan claims Bush is the "world's biggest terrorist". I am really unsure just what units of measurement she is using, so that Bush comes out ahead of the people who deliberately blow up children.
In the end, it doesn't really matter. Sheehan can be dismissed. The philosophy that guides the Peace House, though, cannot. Until they can explain to me why their can't we all just love one another and get along way would turn these terrorists into fat, docile lumps sitting in their Iraqi barcaloungers sipping goat's milk, I really don't give a flying fig that their "dream is to create beautiful gardens conducive to prayer and meditative reflection, as well as facilities for ecumenical worship and study."
This is a fight to the death. Theirs or ours. It's for keeps. When will the anti-war Left face this evil that is loose in the world? When will they face it and say no, this must be stopped?
There is no persuading these terrorists through syrupy talks of peace. If you sat down in front of them in a protest, like some dusty relic of the 60s, the terrorists would likely rush at you, take you to the basement of some house and saw your head off with a knife. Your final sobs and blood-choked gurgles would be the feature attraction in a macabre snuff film, a favored recruiting tool in terrorist circles. What kind of twisted person takes pride in pointing to something like that and saying to someone else, "Hey, look what I can do!"?
The truth of the answer to that question has already hit home.
One sunny morning in September, 2001, moms and dads and sons and daughters left their houses and went to work, as they usually did. But this wasn't a usual morning. Before the morning had barely begun, many of them, instead of joining hands in some sacred circle to form an energy circuit of prayer, joined hands and jumped to their deaths to avoid the burning upper floors of the World Trade Center.
The terrorists don't care what the good people of Crawford Peace House think. When will the folks camped out in Crawford realize that?
-----
Strata-Sphere comments on Sheehan's return to Crawford.
Betsy Newmark comments the radical Left might be having a negative effect in Democratic politics. (Via George Will)
Mark Noonan at Blogs for Bush also looks at the Left's embrace of Sheehan.
Joe Katzman, at Winds of Change, does not let Sheehan off the hook, in an amusing way.
The Belmont Club has a bang spot-on take on these cancerous terrorists.
The Anchoress wonders how the radical Left will affect Hillary's future plans.
7 Comments:
At Thu Aug 25, 02:23:00 AM, Anonymous said…
Sobbering commentary.
Not much to add save these:
a young american woman with a project to tally iraq casualities was killed in a car bomb near badgdad a few months ago here. her blog is somewhere. peace activists are not off limits. no one is. there has been numerous examples of WHOLE families murdered, besides the usual other bombings which hit any and all. How can one do this deliberately? Who would kill a child?
when the brits were tasked with securing a southern flank during the (3rd)clearing out of faluja in nov of 04(where I personally knew at least 6 us troops kia among the 100), a brit staff officer commented soon after something to this effect: (remember their approach is different than the US, they are a bit 'softer'. however, (a very big however) the folks in their sector are by and large quiet and not causing much trouble so their approach fits the circumstances.)
we thought we could go up north and show the yanks how its done and all. we were sure mistaken, i am not proud to admit we were wrong. we had no idea how violent these fanatics were. etc etc. i am sure someone could look up his and others comments.
the whole issue of deploying that unit up from the shia south was a major controversy for britain/blair.
the result i emphasize is this: about 6 or so brit troops were kia and some others wia directly because of their pompous idiot leaders arrogance in not prepairing for fierce combat despite us marine and others liasons dire warnings about the differences.
It took(it always seem this is how militaries act/react unfortunately) good men dieing for their leaders to get their heads in the game and order wholesale tactical changes to deal with the realities on the ground.
At Thu Aug 25, 09:16:00 AM, johngrif said…
Jeff,
I like the intensity of your commentary. It's something often missing on the right.
The Left really has no position, and has had none, since the Iraq situation began.
Theirs is the voice of shrill hate, echoed by the Islamofascists.
At Thu Aug 25, 09:40:00 AM, Joe Katzman said…
Answer: never.
They share the same enemy and hatreds as al-Qaeda, i.e. Western Civilization, and are quite happy to be co-belligerents.
One cloaks its hates in rhetoric about its God, the other cloaks its hates in syrupy rhetoric about "peace." While calling foreign jihadis who come to Iraq to blow up civilians ans saw people's heads off "freedom fighters."
Enablers to the end. And co-belligerents against their mutual enemy.
At Thu Aug 25, 09:46:00 AM, Joe Katzman said…
BTW, add this: Protesters target wounded at Walter Reed Army Hospital."
You're right about saying that, in the long term, it's them or us. That truth extends beyond al-Qaeda. In his famous "Mordor" piece, Belmont Club asked if the War on Terror is necessarily also a global struggle against the Left.
The answer is in. It's yes.
At Thu Aug 25, 12:34:00 PM, Jeff said…
Anonymous - I wonder sometimes, what do the terrorists actually vicerally hate their victims, do they think the victims are their enemy? Or, do they have so little regard for them they are less than human, a bug to be exterminated? Yes, how can anyone do that?
John - I sure haven't seen many convincing arguments from the Left, I do suspect it is because as you rightly say; They don't have any.
At Thu Aug 25, 12:36:00 PM, Jeff said…
Joe,
Thanks for stopping by. You use some most appropriate words: enablers and co-belligerents. In their private rooms, do the radical Left *ever* look in the mirror and wonder how they got on the same side as such killers?
The Belmont Club piece you mention is a good one. I'll have to weave that in at some point. And I am trying to shape my comments over the Walter Reed incident.
At Thu Aug 25, 07:13:00 PM, Dan Kauffman said…
And thank YOU and Joe for stopping by my little spot on the web.
As for the Dallas Peace Center. Crawford and Walter Reed are not their only claims to the Hall of Infamy.
http://www.angelfire.com/ky/kentuckydan/CommitteesofCorrespondence/index.blog?entry_id=1056622
or the parents of a slain soldier who were harassed at a memorial service.
Peace Activists Harass Gold Star Mother
SGT. CHAD DRAKE was killed in Baghdad three days ago. So when his family learned of a candlelight vigil in honor of our fallen soldiers to be held in their hometown of Dallas, they thought it would be a good way to begin the healing process.
As it turns out, they were wrong.
Drake's mother was "harassed and yelled at, booed and hissed, told her son died for nothing,"
the message read.
Drake's mother reportedly left the event in tears.
The family attended the vigil because they thought it was meant to honor U.S. casualties. The event was organized by the Dallas Peace Center, which opposes the war.
Anti-war, or just on the other side?
(read the whole article)
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