Concerto for Violence and Buffoons
What do you think would be worse, if the Islamic violence we see worldwide is orchestrated by a central, malevolent leadership, or if it has developed independently in widely scattered geographic areas and is conducted by homegrown terrorists?
What do you think would be worse, if the Islamic violence we see worldwide is orchestrated by human leadership, or inspired by an ideology?
Do you think our response to the violence will influence how this war plays out?
How is it that when this snarling, ravenous, murderous hatred leaps straight for our throats, some seek to explain it away, or apologize to the beast?
Today was another bitter reminder of what we struggle against. Three suicide bombings in hotels in Amman, Jordan, have killed dozens. It seems likely the attacks were launched by Al Qaeda, or perhaps Zarqawi. In an especially horrific disregard for humanity, one of the blasts occurred in a hall filled with a joyous wedding celebration party.
Can we begin to fathom the depths to which a human soul must sink in order to willingly march into a room filled with innocent wedding revelers and blow them to shreds?
What creates a person like that? Who would plot and plan for a long period of time to commit such an act? Do you think it is a person depressed and angry over poverty? Do you think it was a person denied employment at this hotels? Can we conjure up anything that would justify these attacks as something that balances a moral ledger?
If you want a laboratory experiment in what happens when a society wrings its hands, and collapes to its knees in paroxysms of guilt before this bloodthirsty beast, hoping to appease it, look no farther than France, a country with a fair amount of practice in appeasement.
For the past two weeks, France has desperately been trying to keep the Islamic genie inside the bottle, as it fights to contain the Islamic riots that started in Paris and then spread around the country. There isn't as yet much evidence that these riots have been orchestrated by Al Qaeda from outside the country, but again I'll ask, does it make you feel any better if the riots spontaneously erupted out of a hatred that was already there, bubbling away?
Mark Steyn characterized the events in France this way:
The enemy has made no secret that it wishes us dead. The enemy screams it louder and louder with each passing year. And how does the far Left react? By taking off its shirt. Granted, the sight of some of these pendulous activists would be enough to scare off the most hardened of terrorists, but how can such displays be taken as anything but the sign of a decayed, weakened society?
France has been just as pathetic, trying to excuse the riots as simply evidence that not enough social welfare has been doled out. It is indeed a mystery how that country never learned the lesson in WWII, that surrending your capital without a shot and trying to coexist with pure evil is not a recipe for success. (Do we know if there's been rioting in Vichy?)
What has been the most effective response to terrorism since 9/11? The US military in Iraq and Afghanistan, turning as many terrorists into jigsaw puzzles as they can find.
This Islamic ideology that wants us dead will not relent until we have throttled the very life out of it. Like a symphony, there are many parts to this effort. Some small, some large, some quiet, some booming, but they all fit together and form a thunderous response to this evil. We didn't ask for this fight, civilized societies rarely do. Yet we must finish it, or it will eventually finish us.
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Michelle Malkin has a round-up on the Jordan bombings.
Captain Ed says most of the victims were Muslim.
What do you think would be worse, if the Islamic violence we see worldwide is orchestrated by human leadership, or inspired by an ideology?
Do you think our response to the violence will influence how this war plays out?
How is it that when this snarling, ravenous, murderous hatred leaps straight for our throats, some seek to explain it away, or apologize to the beast?
Today was another bitter reminder of what we struggle against. Three suicide bombings in hotels in Amman, Jordan, have killed dozens. It seems likely the attacks were launched by Al Qaeda, or perhaps Zarqawi. In an especially horrific disregard for humanity, one of the blasts occurred in a hall filled with a joyous wedding celebration party.
Can we begin to fathom the depths to which a human soul must sink in order to willingly march into a room filled with innocent wedding revelers and blow them to shreds?
What creates a person like that? Who would plot and plan for a long period of time to commit such an act? Do you think it is a person depressed and angry over poverty? Do you think it was a person denied employment at this hotels? Can we conjure up anything that would justify these attacks as something that balances a moral ledger?
If you want a laboratory experiment in what happens when a society wrings its hands, and collapes to its knees in paroxysms of guilt before this bloodthirsty beast, hoping to appease it, look no farther than France, a country with a fair amount of practice in appeasement.
For the past two weeks, France has desperately been trying to keep the Islamic genie inside the bottle, as it fights to contain the Islamic riots that started in Paris and then spread around the country. There isn't as yet much evidence that these riots have been orchestrated by Al Qaeda from outside the country, but again I'll ask, does it make you feel any better if the riots spontaneously erupted out of a hatred that was already there, bubbling away?
Mark Steyn characterized the events in France this way:
The Eurabian civil war appears to have started some years ahead of my optimistic schedule.
Granted that most of the "youths" are technically citizens of the French Republic, it doesn't take much time in les banlieus of Paris to discover that the rioters do not think of their primary identity as "French": They're young men from North Africa growing ever more estranged from the broader community with each passing year and wedded ever more intensely to an assertive Muslim identity more implacable than anything you're likely to find in the Middle East. After four somnolent years, it turns out finally that there really is an explosive "Arab street," but it's in Clichy-sous-Bois.
The enemy has made no secret that it wishes us dead. The enemy screams it louder and louder with each passing year. And how does the far Left react? By taking off its shirt. Granted, the sight of some of these pendulous activists would be enough to scare off the most hardened of terrorists, but how can such displays be taken as anything but the sign of a decayed, weakened society?
France has been just as pathetic, trying to excuse the riots as simply evidence that not enough social welfare has been doled out. It is indeed a mystery how that country never learned the lesson in WWII, that surrending your capital without a shot and trying to coexist with pure evil is not a recipe for success. (Do we know if there's been rioting in Vichy?)
What has been the most effective response to terrorism since 9/11? The US military in Iraq and Afghanistan, turning as many terrorists into jigsaw puzzles as they can find.
This Islamic ideology that wants us dead will not relent until we have throttled the very life out of it. Like a symphony, there are many parts to this effort. Some small, some large, some quiet, some booming, but they all fit together and form a thunderous response to this evil. We didn't ask for this fight, civilized societies rarely do. Yet we must finish it, or it will eventually finish us.
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Michelle Malkin has a round-up on the Jordan bombings.
Captain Ed says most of the victims were Muslim.
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