Is this an example of media wishful thinking? Or hoping? Or planting a seed?
UK drama paints fictional assassination of Bush | Entertainment | Entertainment News | Reuters.com
British public broadcaster Channel 4 is courting controversy with what it calls a "shockingly real" drama about the fictional assassination of President George W. Bush.
"Death of a President," shot in the form of a documentary examining the assassination, will use a blend of archival footage and computer-generated special effects to portray Bush in October 2007 arriving in Chicago during an anti-war rally.
In the film, Bush is killed by a sniper, and the investigation quickly focuses on a Syrian-born man. It will air in October on Channel 4's More4 digital channel, as well as at the Toronto Film Festival in September.
"It's a pointed political examination of what the war on terror is doing to the American body politic," said More4 boss Peter Dale at a press conference on Thursday."
what the war on terror is doing to the American body politic...
I suppose that is horthand for saying its the fault of the war on terror, rather than the fault of those who are our enemies in that war.
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Carter and Khatami, Made for Each Other
Former president (as if we could ever forget) Carter is set to meet with former Iranian president Khatami, when he visits the U.S. next week. As former presidents go I must speak up in Khatami's favor. At least he supports the policiesof his government, eveil though they are, while Jimmy misses no opportunity to poke a finger in the ey of the U.S.
Obrador Carrying It Too Far?
It would have appeared that the days of instability in Mexican government were over. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador seems to be reayd to test that concept, by establishing a government to challengethat of the newly elected president, Felipe Calderon.
I hope the next losing U.S. presidential candidate doesn't try this, since lately,they never believe they really lost.
Coup D'Etat in Mexico? - Los Angeles Times
I hope the next losing U.S. presidential candidate doesn't try this, since lately,they never believe they really lost.
Coup D'Etat in Mexico? - Los Angeles Times
Telegraph | News | Migrants changing Britain, says race chief
Telegraph | News | Migrants changing Britain, says race chief
Put this in the "Well, duh!" folder:
Migrants changing Britain, says race chief
By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor
(Filed: 30/08/2006)
Immigration to Britain today is fundamentally different from previous settlements because it is changing the composition of the nation, the head of the Commission for Racial Equality said last night.
Trevor Phillips, who provoked controversy last year by challenging the concept of multiculturalism and saying that Britain was "sleepwalking to segregation", said the social significance of the current wave of immigration was being overlooked.
More young people were arriving to compete for jobs with settled workers and a growing number of incomers were setting up their own institutions, such as churches, shops and media outlets."
Put this in the "Well, duh!" folder:
Migrants changing Britain, says race chief
By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor
(Filed: 30/08/2006)
Immigration to Britain today is fundamentally different from previous settlements because it is changing the composition of the nation, the head of the Commission for Racial Equality said last night.
Trevor Phillips, who provoked controversy last year by challenging the concept of multiculturalism and saying that Britain was "sleepwalking to segregation", said the social significance of the current wave of immigration was being overlooked.
More young people were arriving to compete for jobs with settled workers and a growing number of incomers were setting up their own institutions, such as churches, shops and media outlets."
THE WILL TO WIN By DONALD RUMSFELD - New York Post Online Edition: Postopinion
Good for Rumsfeld; about time too.
THE WILL TO WIN By DONALD RUMSFELD - New York Post Online Edition: Postopinion
That year, 1919 turned out to be one of those pivotal junctures in modern history - the beginning of a period where, over time, a very different set of views would come to dominate discourse and thinking in the West. A sentiment took root that contended that, if only the growing threats that had begun to emerge in Europe and Asia could be appeased, then the carnage and destruction of World War I might be avoided.
It was, as Churchill observed, a bit like feeding a crocodile, hoping it would eat you last.
There was a strange innocence. Someone recently recalled one U.S. senator's reaction in September 1939, upon hearing that Hitler had invaded Poland to start World War II: "Lord, if only I could have talked with Hitler, all this might have been avoided." Think of that.
Once again we face the same kind of challenges in efforts to confront the rising threat of a new type of fascism.
Today, another enemy - a different kind of enemy - has also made clear its intentions - in places like New York, Bali, London and Madrid. But many have still not learned history's lessons.
We need to face the following questions:
* With the growing lethality and availability of weapons, can we truly afford to believe that somehow vicious extremists can be appeased?
* Can we really continue to think that free countries can negotiate a separate peace with terrorists?
* Can we truly afford the luxury of pretending that the threats today are simply "law enforcement" problems, rather than fundamentally different threats, requiring fundamentally different approaches?
* And can we truly afford to return to the destructive view that America - not the enemy - is the real source of the world's trouble?
We hear every day of new plans, new efforts, to murder Americans and other free people. Indeed, the plot recently discovered that would have killed hundreds - possibly thousands - of innocents on planes from Britain to the United States should have demonstrated to all that the enemy is serious, lethal and relentless...
Amnesty International disgracefully refers to the military facility at Guantanamo Bay - which holds terrorists who have vowed to kill Americans, and is arguably the best run and most scrutinized detention facility in the history of warfare - as "the gulag of our times."
(And Ted kennedy compares Abu Ghraib to Hussein's torture facilities. Terrier's note)
THE WILL TO WIN By DONALD RUMSFELD - New York Post Online Edition: Postopinion
That year, 1919 turned out to be one of those pivotal junctures in modern history - the beginning of a period where, over time, a very different set of views would come to dominate discourse and thinking in the West. A sentiment took root that contended that, if only the growing threats that had begun to emerge in Europe and Asia could be appeased, then the carnage and destruction of World War I might be avoided.
It was, as Churchill observed, a bit like feeding a crocodile, hoping it would eat you last.
There was a strange innocence. Someone recently recalled one U.S. senator's reaction in September 1939, upon hearing that Hitler had invaded Poland to start World War II: "Lord, if only I could have talked with Hitler, all this might have been avoided." Think of that.
Once again we face the same kind of challenges in efforts to confront the rising threat of a new type of fascism.
Today, another enemy - a different kind of enemy - has also made clear its intentions - in places like New York, Bali, London and Madrid. But many have still not learned history's lessons.
We need to face the following questions:
* With the growing lethality and availability of weapons, can we truly afford to believe that somehow vicious extremists can be appeased?
* Can we really continue to think that free countries can negotiate a separate peace with terrorists?
* Can we truly afford the luxury of pretending that the threats today are simply "law enforcement" problems, rather than fundamentally different threats, requiring fundamentally different approaches?
* And can we truly afford to return to the destructive view that America - not the enemy - is the real source of the world's trouble?
We hear every day of new plans, new efforts, to murder Americans and other free people. Indeed, the plot recently discovered that would have killed hundreds - possibly thousands - of innocents on planes from Britain to the United States should have demonstrated to all that the enemy is serious, lethal and relentless...
Amnesty International disgracefully refers to the military facility at Guantanamo Bay - which holds terrorists who have vowed to kill Americans, and is arguably the best run and most scrutinized detention facility in the history of warfare - as "the gulag of our times."
(And Ted kennedy compares Abu Ghraib to Hussein's torture facilities. Terrier's note)
Global Warming: No debate allowed
Can it be, (gasp)that the global warming gang don't want you to know theat an opposing point of view exists?
MIT's inconvenient scientist - The Boston Globe
Here's the kind of information the ``scientific consensus" types don't want you to read. MIT's Alfred P. Sloan professor of meteorology Richard Lindzen recently complained about the ``shrill alarmism" of Gore's movie ``An Inconvenient Truth." Lindzen acknowledges that global warming is real, and he acknowledges that increased carbon emissions might be causing the warming -- but they also might not.
``We do not understand the natural internal variability of climate change" is one of Lindzen's many heresies, along with such zingers as ``the Arctic was as warm or warmer in 1940," ``the evidence so far suggests that the Greenland ice sheet is actually growing on average," and ``Alpine glaciers have been retreating since the early 19th century, and were advancing for several centuries before that. Since about 1970, many of the glaciers have stopped retreating and some are now advancing again. And, frankly, we don't know why."
MIT's inconvenient scientist - The Boston Globe
Here's the kind of information the ``scientific consensus" types don't want you to read. MIT's Alfred P. Sloan professor of meteorology Richard Lindzen recently complained about the ``shrill alarmism" of Gore's movie ``An Inconvenient Truth." Lindzen acknowledges that global warming is real, and he acknowledges that increased carbon emissions might be causing the warming -- but they also might not.
``We do not understand the natural internal variability of climate change" is one of Lindzen's many heresies, along with such zingers as ``the Arctic was as warm or warmer in 1940," ``the evidence so far suggests that the Greenland ice sheet is actually growing on average," and ``Alpine glaciers have been retreating since the early 19th century, and were advancing for several centuries before that. Since about 1970, many of the glaciers have stopped retreating and some are now advancing again. And, frankly, we don't know why."
The Selling of Islam
Gates of Vienna
Gates of Vienna gets it right, again, surveying the state of education and culture illiteracy which permits Islamic influence to inform our institutions, thereby forming Western students and society to elevate Islam over Western cultures and values. That's an impossible sentence, so hop over to Gates and read the article yourself.
Gates of Vienna gets it right, again, surveying the state of education and culture illiteracy which permits Islamic influence to inform our institutions, thereby forming Western students and society to elevate Islam over Western cultures and values. That's an impossible sentence, so hop over to Gates and read the article yourself.
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Gathering nuclear storm - Commentary - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper
Gathering nuclear storm - Commentary - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper
The Terrier is not ablove a certain amount of concern over the current state of affairs. Just read it. And maybe say a few rosaries.
The Terrier is not ablove a certain amount of concern over the current state of affairs. Just read it. And maybe say a few rosaries.
On Islamic "Conversion"
The American Thinker
Prompted by the gunpoint "conversions" of Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig:
A Long Tradition of Forced Conversions
"Forced conversions in Islamic history are not exceptional—they have been the norm, across three continents—Asia, Africa, and Europe—for over 13 centuries. Orders for conversion were decreed under all the early Islamic dynasties—Umayyads, Abbasids, Fatimids, and Mamluks. Additional extensive examples of forced conversion were recorded under both Seljuk and Ottoman Turkish rule (the latter until its collapse in the 20th century). But the list is much longer yet. The Shi’ite Safavid and Qajar dynasties of Persia/Iran. During the jihad ravages on the Indian subcontinent, beginning with the early 11th century campaigns of Mahmud of Ghazni, and recurring under the Delhi Sultanate, and Moghul dynasty until the collapse of Muslim suzerainty in the 18th century following the British conquest of India.
Moreover, during jihad—even the jihad campaigns of the 20th century [i.e., the jihad genocide of the Armenians during World War I, the Moplah jihad in Southern India [1921], the jihad against the Assyrians of Iraq in the early 1930s, the jihads against the Chinese of Indonesia and the Christian Ibo of southern Nigeria in the 1960s, and the jihad against the Christians and Animists of the southern Sudan from 1983 to 2001], the (dubious) concept of “no compulsion” (Koran 2:256; which was cited with tragic irony during the Fox reporters “confessional”!), has always been meaningless.
A consistent practice was to enslave populations taken from outside the boundaries of the “Dar al Islam,” where Islamic rule (and Law) prevailed. Inevitably fresh non-Muslim slaves, including children, were Islamized within a generation, their ethnic and linguistic origins erased. Two enduring and important mechanisms for this conversion were concubinage and the slave militias—practices still evident in the contemporary jihad waged by the Arab Muslim Khartoum government against the southern Sudanese Christians and Animists. And Julia Duin reported in early 2002 that murderous jihad terror campaigns—including, prominently, forced conversions to Islam —continued to be waged against the Christians of Indonesia’s Moluccan Islands.
Given this enduring and ignoble historical legacy, it remains to be seen whether contemporary Muslim religious authorities—particularly those within Palestinian society, and affiliated with Hamas or Fatah—will condemn publicly the forced conversions of the kidnapped Fox reporters.
Moreover, will they be joined by a chorus of authoritative voices representing the entire Muslim clerical hierarchy—Sunni and Shi’ite alike—from Mecca and Cairo, Qom and Najaf, to the Muslim advocacy groups in the West (such as CAIR in the United States, and the Muslim Council of Britain in England)—unanimous in their condemnation of this hideous practice, and formalized by a fatwa stating as much?
Will such Muslim authorities at least recognize the acute predicament of Centanni and Wiig by issuing a fatwa stating that their “conversion”, being under duress, was not bona fide, condemning in advance any Muslim who might now attack these journalists for “apostasy” from Islam?
What should be gleaned from this harrowing Gazan spectacle of non-Muslim journalists being kidnapped, imprisoned for nearly two weeks, and coerced at gunpoint into converting to Islam, while condemning their own societies?"
Prompted by the gunpoint "conversions" of Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig:
A Long Tradition of Forced Conversions
"Forced conversions in Islamic history are not exceptional—they have been the norm, across three continents—Asia, Africa, and Europe—for over 13 centuries. Orders for conversion were decreed under all the early Islamic dynasties—Umayyads, Abbasids, Fatimids, and Mamluks. Additional extensive examples of forced conversion were recorded under both Seljuk and Ottoman Turkish rule (the latter until its collapse in the 20th century). But the list is much longer yet. The Shi’ite Safavid and Qajar dynasties of Persia/Iran. During the jihad ravages on the Indian subcontinent, beginning with the early 11th century campaigns of Mahmud of Ghazni, and recurring under the Delhi Sultanate, and Moghul dynasty until the collapse of Muslim suzerainty in the 18th century following the British conquest of India.
Moreover, during jihad—even the jihad campaigns of the 20th century [i.e., the jihad genocide of the Armenians during World War I, the Moplah jihad in Southern India [1921], the jihad against the Assyrians of Iraq in the early 1930s, the jihads against the Chinese of Indonesia and the Christian Ibo of southern Nigeria in the 1960s, and the jihad against the Christians and Animists of the southern Sudan from 1983 to 2001], the (dubious) concept of “no compulsion” (Koran 2:256; which was cited with tragic irony during the Fox reporters “confessional”!), has always been meaningless.
A consistent practice was to enslave populations taken from outside the boundaries of the “Dar al Islam,” where Islamic rule (and Law) prevailed. Inevitably fresh non-Muslim slaves, including children, were Islamized within a generation, their ethnic and linguistic origins erased. Two enduring and important mechanisms for this conversion were concubinage and the slave militias—practices still evident in the contemporary jihad waged by the Arab Muslim Khartoum government against the southern Sudanese Christians and Animists. And Julia Duin reported in early 2002 that murderous jihad terror campaigns—including, prominently, forced conversions to Islam —continued to be waged against the Christians of Indonesia’s Moluccan Islands.
Given this enduring and ignoble historical legacy, it remains to be seen whether contemporary Muslim religious authorities—particularly those within Palestinian society, and affiliated with Hamas or Fatah—will condemn publicly the forced conversions of the kidnapped Fox reporters.
Moreover, will they be joined by a chorus of authoritative voices representing the entire Muslim clerical hierarchy—Sunni and Shi’ite alike—from Mecca and Cairo, Qom and Najaf, to the Muslim advocacy groups in the West (such as CAIR in the United States, and the Muslim Council of Britain in England)—unanimous in their condemnation of this hideous practice, and formalized by a fatwa stating as much?
Will such Muslim authorities at least recognize the acute predicament of Centanni and Wiig by issuing a fatwa stating that their “conversion”, being under duress, was not bona fide, condemning in advance any Muslim who might now attack these journalists for “apostasy” from Islam?
What should be gleaned from this harrowing Gazan spectacle of non-Muslim journalists being kidnapped, imprisoned for nearly two weeks, and coerced at gunpoint into converting to Islam, while condemning their own societies?"
Australia on Dishonest Reporting from Lebabnon
The press is digging its own grave and seems not to care.
"United Press International - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper
"What concerns me greatly is the evidence of dishonesty in the reporting out of Lebanon," he said. He gave as examples the case of photographs of the results of Israeli air strikes being altered and the "tendency to report every casualty on the Lebanese side of the conflict as a civilian casualty, despite indisputable evidence that many of the injured from the Israeli offensive were Hezbollah combatants," Downer said. "
"United Press International - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper
"What concerns me greatly is the evidence of dishonesty in the reporting out of Lebanon," he said. He gave as examples the case of photographs of the results of Israeli air strikes being altered and the "tendency to report every casualty on the Lebanese side of the conflict as a civilian casualty, despite indisputable evidence that many of the injured from the Israeli offensive were Hezbollah combatants," Downer said. "
Ahmadinejad Challenges Bush to TV Debate
From Reuters, lapdog of Islamofascism, comes this. File it in the "Oh, please" folder.
Ahmadinejad defiant, challenges Bush to TV debate | Top News | Reuters.com
Ahmadinejad defiant, challenges Bush to TV debate | Top News | Reuters.com
Monday, August 28, 2006
Rating the PMs Thatcher #1
"Margaret Thatcher was the best prime minister of the 20th century, according to a left-wing author and historian who argues that Tony Blair's aspirations to the title have been wrecked by the Iraq war."
I would choose Churchill myself, but the artcile makes good reading, and the Iron Lady would be my second choice.
Independent Online Edition > UK Politics
I would choose Churchill myself, but the artcile makes good reading, and the Iron Lady would be my second choice.
Independent Online Edition > UK Politics
Study calls Jersey a taxing place to call home
Study calls Jersey a taxing place to call home
The Terrier was born and bred in the Garden State, and still thinks of it as home. I miss many things about living there, but not the miserable governance. Why anyone believed that Jon Corzine would get a grip on taxes is beyond me. I wait with bated breath to hear how he does on corruption.
The Terrier was born and bred in the Garden State, and still thinks of it as home. I miss many things about living there, but not the miserable governance. Why anyone believed that Jon Corzine would get a grip on taxes is beyond me. I wait with bated breath to hear how he does on corruption.
Shifting Political Winds? Michael Barone Thinks So
More from the NY Sun:
Change in the Winds - August 28, 2006 - The New York Sun
"There seems to have been a change in the political winds. They've been blowing pretty strongly against George Bush and the Republicans this spring and early this summer. Now, their velocity looks to be tapering off or perhaps shifting direction...
The event this month that I think has done most to shape opinion was the arrest in London on August 9 of 23 Muslims suspected of plotting to blow up American airliners over the Atlantic.
They've been trying to kill us for years, going back at least to 1983, when a Hezbollah suicide bomber killed 241 American servicemen in Lebanon. Then they attacked the World Trade Center, the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and the USS Cole in Aden — all while Bill Clinton was president. September 11 woke us up to the threat. The political acrimony of 2004 and 2005 and this year made it seem remote.The London arrests reminded us it's still there."
"Polls since the London arrests suggest what has been happening. Mr. Bush's job approval was up significantly in the Gallup Poll, usually the most volatile of national polls, and the Democratic margin in the generic question (Which party's candidate for the House would you vote for?) was sharply reduced. There was a similar trend in generic vote in the Rasmussen poll, which is ordinarily much less volatile than Gallup."
Plus,Lieberman is leading Lamont in the polls.
Hillary must now decide whether to continue supporting the war, continue recent efforts to bash it, and Bush, or take a long vacation from history until she gets new polls done.
Change in the Winds - August 28, 2006 - The New York Sun
"There seems to have been a change in the political winds. They've been blowing pretty strongly against George Bush and the Republicans this spring and early this summer. Now, their velocity looks to be tapering off or perhaps shifting direction...
The event this month that I think has done most to shape opinion was the arrest in London on August 9 of 23 Muslims suspected of plotting to blow up American airliners over the Atlantic.
They've been trying to kill us for years, going back at least to 1983, when a Hezbollah suicide bomber killed 241 American servicemen in Lebanon. Then they attacked the World Trade Center, the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and the USS Cole in Aden — all while Bill Clinton was president. September 11 woke us up to the threat. The political acrimony of 2004 and 2005 and this year made it seem remote.The London arrests reminded us it's still there."
"Polls since the London arrests suggest what has been happening. Mr. Bush's job approval was up significantly in the Gallup Poll, usually the most volatile of national polls, and the Democratic margin in the generic question (Which party's candidate for the House would you vote for?) was sharply reduced. There was a similar trend in generic vote in the Rasmussen poll, which is ordinarily much less volatile than Gallup."
Plus,Lieberman is leading Lamont in the polls.
Hillary must now decide whether to continue supporting the war, continue recent efforts to bash it, and Bush, or take a long vacation from history until she gets new polls done.
Mark Steyn on Islam's Weakness
Achilles' Heel - August 28, 2006 - The New York Sun
"Here's Osama bin Laden during the post-9/11 Afghan campaign:
"I was ordered to fight the people until they say there is no god but Allah, and his prophet Mohammed.""
(Direct quote from the Koran)
"The bad news is that Islam will soon be able to enforce submission-conversion at the point of a nuke. The good news is that any religion that needs to do that is, by definition, a weak one."
Anyone still want to talk with these people?
It's a really good piece, try to find time to read the whole thing.
"Here's Osama bin Laden during the post-9/11 Afghan campaign:
"I was ordered to fight the people until they say there is no god but Allah, and his prophet Mohammed.""
(Direct quote from the Koran)
"The bad news is that Islam will soon be able to enforce submission-conversion at the point of a nuke. The good news is that any religion that needs to do that is, by definition, a weak one."
Anyone still want to talk with these people?
It's a really good piece, try to find time to read the whole thing.
Sunday, August 27, 2006
Kellogg-Briand Anniversary
In the long history of human conceits, few are more notable for their failure than the attempt to end war through the Kellogg-Briand Pact.
No more war, we just won't go there anymore, so said 62 nations, who probably meant it at the time. After the horrific carnage of World War I such a pact must have seemed fitting. It was not enforced and so ended up on the scrap heap.
No more war, we just won't go there anymore, so said 62 nations, who probably meant it at the time. After the horrific carnage of World War I such a pact must have seemed fitting. It was not enforced and so ended up on the scrap heap.
Who'da Thunk IT? The UN helping Hezbollah
What did you do in the war, UNIFIL?
"DURING THE RECENT month-long war between Hezbollah and Israel, U.N. "peacekeeping" forces made a startling contribution: They openly published daily real-time intelligence, of obvious usefulness to Hezbollah, on the location, equipment, and force structure of Israeli troops in Lebanon.
UNIFIL--the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, a nearly 2,000-man blue-helmet contingent that has been present on the Lebanon-Israel border since 1978--is officially neutral. Yet, throughout the recent war, it posted on its website for all to see precise information about the movements of Israeli Defense Forces soldiers and the nature of their weaponry and materiel, even specifying the placement of IDF safety structures within hours of their construction. New information was sometimes only 30 minutes old when it was posted, and never more than 24 hours old.
Meanwhile, UNIFIL posted not a single item of specific intelligence regarding Hezbollah forces. Statements on the order of Hezbollah "fired rockets in large numbers from various locations" and Hezbollah's rockets "were fired in significantly larger numbers from various locations" are as precise as its coverage of the other side ever got."
Tell me again, why do we have a UN? I keep forgetting?
"DURING THE RECENT month-long war between Hezbollah and Israel, U.N. "peacekeeping" forces made a startling contribution: They openly published daily real-time intelligence, of obvious usefulness to Hezbollah, on the location, equipment, and force structure of Israeli troops in Lebanon.
UNIFIL--the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, a nearly 2,000-man blue-helmet contingent that has been present on the Lebanon-Israel border since 1978--is officially neutral. Yet, throughout the recent war, it posted on its website for all to see precise information about the movements of Israeli Defense Forces soldiers and the nature of their weaponry and materiel, even specifying the placement of IDF safety structures within hours of their construction. New information was sometimes only 30 minutes old when it was posted, and never more than 24 hours old.
Meanwhile, UNIFIL posted not a single item of specific intelligence regarding Hezbollah forces. Statements on the order of Hezbollah "fired rockets in large numbers from various locations" and Hezbollah's rockets "were fired in significantly larger numbers from various locations" are as precise as its coverage of the other side ever got."
Tell me again, why do we have a UN? I keep forgetting?
Steele Explains It All
Shelby Steele on White Guilt
This explains Muslim extremism as well as anything.
"If this war makes anything clear, it is that Israel can do nothing to appease the Muslim animus against her. And now much of the West is in a similar position, living in a state of ever-heightening security against the constant threat of violence from Islamic extremists. So here, from the Muslim world, comes an unappeasable hatred that seems to exist for its own sake, a hatred with very little actual reference to those it claims to hate. Even the fighting of Islamic terrorist groups is oddly self-referential, fighting not for territory or treasure but for the fighting itself. Standing today in the rubble of Lebanon, having not taken a single inch of Israeli territory, Hezbollah claims a galvanizing victory."
"Hatred and murder are self-realization because they impart grandeur to Islamic extremists--the sense of being God's chosen warrior in God's great cause. Hatred delivers the extremist to a greatness that compensates for his ineffectuality in the world. Jews and infidels are irrelevant except that they offer occasion to hate and, thus, to experience grandiosity. This is why Hezbollah--Party of God--can take no territory and still claim to have won. The grandiosity is in the hating and fighting, not the victory."
This explains Muslim extremism as well as anything.
"If this war makes anything clear, it is that Israel can do nothing to appease the Muslim animus against her. And now much of the West is in a similar position, living in a state of ever-heightening security against the constant threat of violence from Islamic extremists. So here, from the Muslim world, comes an unappeasable hatred that seems to exist for its own sake, a hatred with very little actual reference to those it claims to hate. Even the fighting of Islamic terrorist groups is oddly self-referential, fighting not for territory or treasure but for the fighting itself. Standing today in the rubble of Lebanon, having not taken a single inch of Israeli territory, Hezbollah claims a galvanizing victory."
"Hatred and murder are self-realization because they impart grandeur to Islamic extremists--the sense of being God's chosen warrior in God's great cause. Hatred delivers the extremist to a greatness that compensates for his ineffectuality in the world. Jews and infidels are irrelevant except that they offer occasion to hate and, thus, to experience grandiosity. This is why Hezbollah--Party of God--can take no territory and still claim to have won. The grandiosity is in the hating and fighting, not the victory."
Crter Speaks: Blair Compliant and Subservient: Jimmy Carter's explosive critique of Tony Blair
Telegraph | News | Compliant and subservient: Jimmy Carter's explosive critique of Tony Blair
Jimmy Carter continues to solidify his title as worst former U.S. President, ahving long ago laid claim to worst sitting U.S. President.
In his latest bitter tirade, he says:
"In many countries where I meet with leaders and private citizens there is an equating of American policy with Great Britain - with Great Britain obviously playing the lesser role. We now have a situation where America is so unpopular overseas that even in countries like Egypt and Jordan our approval ratings are less than five per cent. It's a shameful and pitiful state of affairs and I hold your British Prime Minister to be substantially responsible for being so compliant and subservient."
I hope no one either side of the pond takes this too seriously; Carter has never been right about anything yet.
I'm still trying to figure which side he is on, apart from his own.
Jimmy Carter continues to solidify his title as worst former U.S. President, ahving long ago laid claim to worst sitting U.S. President.
In his latest bitter tirade, he says:
"In many countries where I meet with leaders and private citizens there is an equating of American policy with Great Britain - with Great Britain obviously playing the lesser role. We now have a situation where America is so unpopular overseas that even in countries like Egypt and Jordan our approval ratings are less than five per cent. It's a shameful and pitiful state of affairs and I hold your British Prime Minister to be substantially responsible for being so compliant and subservient."
I hope no one either side of the pond takes this too seriously; Carter has never been right about anything yet.
I'm still trying to figure which side he is on, apart from his own.
BREITBART.COM - Kidnapped Fox News Journalists Freed
BREITBART.COM - Kidnapped Fox News Journalists Freed
Centanni and Wiig, happily are free. Interesting that the two were forced to make statements that they had converted to Islam. Check your calendars, folks. Mine says 2001. Theirs seems to be set at 1100.
Centanni and Wiig, happily are free. Interesting that the two were forced to make statements that they had converted to Islam. Check your calendars, folks. Mine says 2001. Theirs seems to be set at 1100.
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