Do you suppose the media would report on the actual comments of this three ring religious circus act had they uttered them on the Christian Broadcasting Network’s 700 Club instead of the National Mall?
Just asking.
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Man, I wish that guy would shut up. He has a knack for making things worse.
Like I said awhile back, when people start to deal effectively with the terrorists, they should begin at home. There are a lot of Americans who hate what America stands for, even as they reap the benefits of the free enterprise system they despise.
When a nation is at war it pays to define the enemy clearly. Bush has failed to do that because many of them are in the opposition. Eventually he or some other president will have to do that.
The same goes for Canada. One of these days, I hope soon, the people who are really keeping both countries together tire of this charade and decide to put a stop to it once and for all. I will be there to lend a hand when that happens here in Canada. It would be my pleasure.
Kate, I assume that was a rhetorical question!
Damn, I’m glad you’re back. Your replacements were great but don’t have that wonderful Kate edge!
And, yeah, what John said. We know the name of the enemy, and it ain’t obscured by calling them insurgents, activists or radicals. My personal fav is murderous bastards, but then I’m a war-monger who loves liberty and is willing to kill to defend that liberty. (Ops, what that non-PC? Good!)
Mark Steyn, Chicago Sun-Times: “Media utters nonsense, won’t call enemy out”, October 16
http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn16.html
Excerpts (note last para):
‘From Thursday’s New York Times: ”Nalchik, Russia — Insurgents launched a series of raids today in this southern Russian city…
When the NPR report started, I was driving on the vast open plains of I-91 in Vermont and reckoned, just to make things interesting, I’ll add another five miles to the speed for every minute that goes by without mentioning Islam. But I couldn’t get the needle to go above 130, and the vibrations caused the passenger-side wing-mirror to drop off. And then, right at the end, having conducted a perfect interview that managed to go into great depth about everything except who these guys were and what they were fighting over, the Russian academic dude had to go and spoil it all by saying somethin’ stupid like “republics which are mostly . . . Muslim.”..
And so Islamists who murder non-Muslims in pursuit of explicitly Islamic goals are airbrushed into vague, generic “rebel forces.” You can’t tell the players without a scorecard, and that’s just the way the Western media intend to keep it. If you wake up one morning and switch on the TV to see the Empire State Building crumbling to dust, don’t be surprised if the announcer goes, “Insurging rebel militant forces today attacked key targets in New York…
The militantly rebellious insurgers of no known religious affiliation have long said they want a pan-Caucasian Islamic state from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea, and the carnage they wreaked in the hitherto semi-safe-ish republic of Kabardino-Balkaria suggests that they’re more likely to spread the conflict to other parts of the Russian Federation than Moscow is to contain it…
I’m aware the very concept of “the enemy” is alien to the non-judgment multicultural mind: There are no enemies, just friends whose grievances we haven’t yet accommodated. But the media’s sensitivity police apparently want this to be the first war we lose without even knowing who it is we’ve lost to. C’mon, guys, next time something happens in the Caucasus, why not blame the “Caucasians”? At least that way, we’ll figure it must have been right-wing buddies of Timothy McVeigh.”
Mark
Ottawa
Hate and bigotry only flow one way in moonbat land.
Mark in Ottawa, thank goodness you’re on our side but why aren’t there more of you?