Comment: Cheese-eating surrender monkeys and fire-eating war

...Send our sons and daughters not to do the work of Satan, but to blow themselves up in the process of killing dispicable Infidel ...

Aye, America has its defects, and we will fix them if we feel they need fixing.

One solution to all the terrible things represented by the United States has been forcibly demonstrated on 9/11 and 7/7. Convert to radically consrvative Islam. Ban all images of people, or anything that might compete with the worship of Allah. Replace all legislation that gives women any rights with laws requiring them to be "modestly" clothed in public.

Ban any book or media that religious leaders dislike as an affront to their interpretation of the Koran. The Koran is written in Arabic, and so Arabic should become the primary langues of all humans. Replace the Anglo-American legal system with its decadent notions of innocent until proven guilty before a jury of ones peers, with religous courts trained only in interpreting the Holy Word. Hold public executions where offenders are either beheaded or stoned to death for violating any of the strictures in the Koran. Foreswear all forms of materialism that only divert the faithful from their worship of the devine. Join in the Jihad and bring all the heathens and infidels to Islam. Send our sons and daughters not to do the work of Satan, but to blow themselves up in the process of killing dispicable Infidel women and children.

Now if we are willing to all that, America will be pure and unblemished. We will be welcomed into the Islamic world of the 8th century, and won't have these terrible partisan political battles anymore. Right?

Priorities my dears. First, we defeat this gang of religious murderers and free those enslaved to them.

This in addition to the many other failed attempts to hit America, specificlly yesterdays news, should make poeple in this country just a bit more sensitive to the war on terror.

Blowback
by Chalmers Johnson
The Nation magazine, October 15, 2001


For Americans who can bear to think about it, those tragic pictures from New York of women holding up photos of their husbands, sons and daughters and asking if anyone knows anything about them look familiar.
They are similar to scenes we have seen from Buenos Aires and Santiago. There, too, starting in the 1970s, women held up photos of their loved ones, asking for information.

Since it was far too dangerous then to say aloud what they thought had happened to them - that they had been tortured and murdered by US-backed military juntas-the women coined a new word for them, los desaparecidos-"the disappeareds." Our government has never been honest about its own role in the 1973 overthrow of the elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile or its backing, through "Operation Condor," of what the State Department has recently called "extrajudicial killings" in Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil and elsewhere in Latin America.

But we now have several thousand of our own disappeareds, and we are badly mistaken if we think that we in the United States are entirely blameless for what happened to them. The suicidal assassins of September 11, 2001, did not "attack America," as our political leaders and the news media like to maintain; they attacked American foreign policy.

Employing the strategy of the weak, they killed innocent bystanders who then became enemies only because they had already become victims. Terrorism by definition strikes-at the innocent in order to draw attention to the sins of the invulnerable.

The United States deploys such overwhelming military force globally that for its militarized opponents only an "asymmetric strategy," in the jargon of the Pentagon, has any chance of success.

When it does succeed as it did spectacularly on September 11, it renders our massive military machine worthless: The terrorists offer it no targets. On the day of the disaster, President George W. Bush told the American people that we were attacked because we are "a beacon for freedom" and because the attackers were "evil." In his address to Congress on September 20, he said, "This is civilization's fight." This attempt to define difficult-to-grasp events as only a conflict over abstract values- as a "clash of civilizations," in current post-cold war American jargon-is not only disingenuous but also a way of evading responsibility for the "blowback" that ': America's imperial projects have generated.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Sept_11_2001/Blowback_CJ_article.html

Asherman, I think you're a pretty decent guy, well loved in the community, but you really should look up "succinct".

It is an admirable word.

....New York's transportation system has emerged as a potential terrorist threat in several recent cases. A June book by journalist Ron Suskind highlighted a reported plot by al-Qaida terrorists to kill thousands of New Yorkers by spreading cyanide gas in the subway. In May, a man was convicted of plotting to blow up a subway station....

It is not established that the defects of the Americans stipulated are imaginary.

England lost people in the twin towers, too. And they have supported us in Afghanistan without question. They have honored our losses, and shown us a respect which attitudes such as yours suggest to me that we might not deserve.

You further ignore that they have a hell of a lot more experience of terrorism and its consequences than we have. The Provos invented that delightful little terrorist technique of a small explosion preceeding by a few seconds the main explosion, which then catches so many victims running away from the first explosion. They practiced and perfected the technique in England.

Have your ever donated to Noraid, Paddy?

Priorities my dears. First, we defeat this gang of religious murderers and free those enslaved to them.

There was some years ago a well-developed support group for Noraid in Northern California. I knew some of its figures peripherally and very likely was proximate to some of their events, but no, I didn't contribute directly.

... Is there really any difference between the motives for, or the results of, a terrorist placing a bomb in a city or aircraft dropping them from the air?