There was a saying during the Second world war that went something like, When the Germans bomb the British and Americans duck, When the English bomb the Germans duck and when the Americans bomb everybody ducks. Suffice it to say there was a mistake in the bombing to generate the saying.
When the press and the left refer to the war they seem to believe that this is merely a police action and civilians are not targets, which of course they are not, however, they do live in a war zone and sorry to inform these losers but innocents die in a war, it can't be helped.
And now, they want us to believe that because we killed Zark that now we are really going to get it, sheesh what are they going to do attack us ?
The end to this scourge will come with total war, and the application of pain, insult, humiliation, and virtual destruction of everything worthwhile to our enemies. That will include holy sites of real importance and their occupants, and we will not be the provocateurs.
So far this has been the Phony War of the 21st century. When we realize, if we do, that Western militaries are unsuited to slow, grinding conflicts and the pleasant vanities of our moral purity, we will be in the end of the beginning. I say the sooner the better.
Rhod and Mark,
You will recall, too, that they also found a leopard-skin nighty at Zarq's pad. The MSM did get snippets of this out.
But they won't talk much about who was wearing it.
Can you imagine the Headline: "Zarqawi, 16-year-old wife, and their 2-year-old son killed by precision U.S. airstrike"?
Read that to some of the gang in flyover country. Heck, read that to kids in the suburbs. Zarqawi might even get some scorn on the university campus. Read it to anybody who is sane.
There's a reason that totalitarians fear the truth.
John:
Islamists and their enablers have reached new depths in human depravity, and have acted upon them.
This is the only catalyst needed to rustle up the existential cowardice of the left, of which the MSM is a part...the obliterating fear of personal risk and the torrent of evidence that their worldview is wrong combine in their necessary defense of evil.
Complicity in this evil is the temporary relief from fear, the Stockholm Syndrome on a massive scale. That they're in full flight from the impacted wickedness of the past few days, and like the odious and despicable rodent Durbin, hand-wringing and sniffling over the things they claim we've released in Iraq, they have the futile hope of being protected from the degenerate rage of our enemies.
Leftism is the detritus of extravagant ease and self-indulgence; it's what's left when comfort takes its toll and the mind and soul are hollow and blown about by the slightest breeze. Zarqawi knew them inside and out, and that's the truth.
The folks at TIME magazine are undoubtably miffed. They probably had Zarqawi up for "Man of the Year". Of course they could still make it work. Zarqawi: Man of 1/2 the year, room temperture the rest of the year. Of course this won't put a damper on Hollywood at all. Oliver Stone is probably working on the screen play right now.
ZARQAWI & THE LOLITA OF THE JIHAD.
Roman Polanski can play the lead role.(sure he's a little old but that's what makeups for)
Cry Havoc & let slip the pedophiles of war!!!!
Tbird,
That is a hoot, man. "Man for 1/2 the Year". A great idea.
Rhod,
I am searching for my dictionary. "Detritus" ... Good stuff.
"The mind and soul blown about by the slightest breeze" ... I can see it, you have nailed it so well.
Leftists are Ghost Terds.
Beautiful writing leading to an unseemly image.
I followed it and noted it on my blog.
I not only pointed out her young age, but pointed out that the average man who loved his wife would never risk her life or the life of his child by taking them into harm's way.
But what is worse than a 13 year old child bride (Loretta Lynn, anyone?) is this disregard for their safety. And THAT is not in Islam.
DC:
Ghost Terds? How do you find one, and what do you do with it when you find it?
Boinkie:
Something's missing in your post. Acuity. Wondering why someone with Bubonic Plague has the sniffles seems beside the point. Zarqawi spiritually departed this mortal plane long before he died, and speculating on whether he loved his wife seems way down the list of questions about him.
And, according to many of its adherents, Islam seems to permit a whole lot of things we can't find in the scripture. By now, what Islam permits and prohibits seems also beside the point, because not enough of them are defining where the "peace" is, in the Religion of Peace. Even Bush no longer utters this banality.
DC, If the MSM were to try to travel to the high ground of the information war, they would surely lose there breath and will as they trudge up from the mirey pit they are currently in. Huffing and puffing, they would simply quit and tumble back down only to pick up where they left off.
Rhod,
You find them rolling around the floors of various dorm rooms (males). You know, those little tumbleweeds of hair, dirt, etc.
Boinky,
I understand what Rhod is saying and would amplify only by noting: Having a 13-year-old as one's "wife" (that's an oxymoron like "cold" Sun) is per se disregard for the welfare of the girl involved. So, it's not much of a stretch that Zarq would keep her with him and endanger her life. He had already shown contempt and utter disregard for her welfare. You raise an interesting point re: how putting children in harm's way would not be sanctioned in Islam. Perhaps this is so, yet, again if Islam (or the jihadi's understanding of it by their emulation of Mohammed) sanctions child marriage, then we have yet another example of the internal inconsistency of the belief system. You know, they claim Jesus was a prophet and He claimed they are wrong, too.
KHix,
I got your msg. Is this what you were talking about? I thought it was, and I had been planning to post on the Time cover since I saw the Sweetness & Light post. ... And you're right, there's sometimes thin air where you have to go to find the truth.
And Rhod, what the college males do with the GT's is to leave them on the floor and hope that the next "gust" of the door opening will maybe blow them into the hall ... if they even notice them, that is.
I entered college in 1963, and with the war and all, didn't get out 'til '71. In those days we didn't have dust. The planet was too young. Mark knows about this. He's much, much older than I am.
Rhod
I assume that that was in the fall of '63,... wow that is a long time ago, that was the 1 year anniversary of the trip to 'Cuuber'and JFKs bungling of the crisis and escalating the war in South East Asia. Later to be known as Vietnam. The only place in the world that has a snake known as 'two-step' after he bites you take two steps and that is it.
But yes I remember 1963 wasn't a bad year, a lot calmer than what we got today, the libs stayed in the closet where they belonged, a protest amounted to someone not going to a local football game at the high school, because he was mad at somebody. When you graduated from high school you could actually read the diploma they gave you. And every school had a rifle team, with the range in the basement. Imagine that taking a rifle to school and intending to shoot it at a paper target.
It was a free country when I was a kid.
That would be the bamboo viper, Mark. Charley used to hang them inside the tunnels at Cu Chi. Nasty little things. Tay Ninh had cobras in the ant hills during the heat of the day, and in the shallow bunkers where they slithered in the cool of the dark. A herpetologist's paradise.
Great post, Mark. No better summary of '63 anywhere. I, of course, was only five years old. Graduated very early.
Thanks for the ComCenter, DC. We'll turn the lights out when we're done.
Rhod
Yeah that his name all right we always were told to watch out for ole two-step, as a newbie in 66 we thought they were sh*ttin us, but that was the truth.
A month before I was home in Buffalo, on 30 days leave, for extending in order to go over to RVN, and one day my sister was taking her kids to the Zoo and i went along, back then it was free admission, when we got to the snake house I started reading with interest where most of those nasty suckers were from and 90 per cent were in South East Asia, thinking to myself, 'Aw Sh*t what have i gotten myself into, I volunteered for this'. I hate snakes, garden, Black snakes or rattlers, but the BV was something else again. When I signed my extension papers the 'Top' never said anything about snakes.
Talking about extending, I used to tell all the hippies how I beat the draft, once. I said that, I had their attention, until I told them I volunteered that no one ever drafted me.
But I had this crazy idea that it was my duty to go, afterall it was my country asking me, how could I say no. Talk about a dumb hick from the sticks, but I still feel that way.
Semper Fi
Mark
No need to thank me, Rhod. Thanks to you and Mark for a great discussion and much more.
Still think this is a free country, though. I am limbering up for my 7/4 stem-winder.
A Call to the Real Salvation:
This is an invitation to observe, to ponder and to be with us, aware and certain that it is our duty and moral obligation to convey the message of our Creator.
In the search for truth, it is indispensable that we take some time and effort to know the basis of our faith, and as true believers, we must follow the purest essence of our belief as exemplified by the messengers of God.
Who else can give us the guidance but those whom God chose and entrusted with the mission of proclaiming glad tidings to the believers and warnings to those who deviate from the way of our Creator and refuse to believe.
Religion for some may simply be a field of academics, to others it’s a medium solely for spiritual enrichment, and to a lot more various aspects or views people may find fitting on their level of desires or caprices.
But for us, our religion is a complete way of life as shown by all the prophets of God (Peace and blessing be upon them all) and as epitomized by the last Prophet (Peace and blessing be upon him) in order to attain salvation.
There is no doubt that this temporary life is only a probationary period, a transitory phase to the next and final one. As such, it should offer everyone the necessary requirements instrumental in paving the way for our last destination, where belief in the lone Creator and obedience to His command (doing what is right and forbidding what is wrong) will be the only acceptable means to merit salvation.
Thus, knowing the true teachings of God is tantamount to knowing life! That’s how important it is!
With due respect and love to Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon him) as one of God’s mightiest prophets who was sent to the lost sheep of Israel, we cannot discount the teachings he brought to establish the way, the truth and the life.
We regard and accept him as a real messenger of God whose ways and belief inevitably coincide with ours as illustrated by the last Prophet including all the Prophets before him (Peace and blessing be upon them all).
Yes, Prophet Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon him) was not a Christian for he did not introduce Christianity to the world, as evidenced by what he said in Matthew 5:17 “Do not think that I have come to destroy the Law or the prophets. I have come not to destroy, but to fulfill.” Instead, he confirmed the teachings preceding him, which was the Law set by Prophet Moses (Peace and blessing be upon him). A guidance that is sanctioned by and is also analogous with that of Islam, having been anchored upon monotheism, its inherent bedrock which happens to be every other prophet's battlecry and message.
Moreover, Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon him) further uttered words which prove that his mission was not yet complete and that another Prophet was to come after him to finalize the message, the guidance or the revelation itself, when he prophesied in John 16:7-14.
“Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advant
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