Every time a terrorist group explodes a bomb, we see the same range of reactions: rational, sane people commiserate with the victims of the attack and their families, cutting through the confusion and getting to the essentials. When the smoke clears, they connect the dots with similar attacks and resolve to fight even harder against the terrorists.
And then you have your moonbats who go “see – this proves the hobby horse I’m riding is going in the right direction!” somewhere toward Appeasementville, Chimpy McBushitlerburton-bashing-ville, or off on some bizarre tangent that intersects with Internet triumphalism or Sinn Fein triumphalism or politically correct triumphalism or whatever.
Moonbats, the next time you have a chance to embarrass yourself, why not wait 24 hours or so for your head to clear before showing the world what a nutter you are? You’ll be glad you did.
UPDATE: For a good case study in what happens to those who violate the 24 hour moonbat rule, see the total destruction of “DarkSyde” by rational people. (Q: Why do these lunatics always go by pseudonyms?)
I saw DarkSyde’s post and comments at Pharyngula, and frankly, I think he had your side for breakfast.
So are you going to resolve to fight harder against those terrorists by helping the army recruit somebody’s loved ones, maybe your own?
John K., you miss the point, as does DarkSyde. DarkSyde seems to suggest that authoritarian rule (whether secular, as with Hussein’s Iraq, or fundamentalist, as with Iran currently) can prevent the development of extremist terrorists through police action. These horribly repressive regimes only encourage the development of extremism, as disenfranchisement and poverty lead to “idle hands.” Democracies create wealth, free expression of ideas, and foster a sense of societal ownership.
These attacks show that these people are still out there, and aren’t going away. Are we already ready for appeasement? This isn’t about Iraq. It’s about the destruction of democracy. I wonder how many Saudi textbooks call all Western democracies “crusader Zionists” (as Britain was referred to in the Al Qaeda subsidiary’s statement today) before the Iraq war. My guess is all of them.
DarkSyde claims that Iraq has already been transformed into a fully democratic nation, as bizarre a claim as I’ve ever seen.
John, you’re Maoist who seeks not to save Western Civilization but to crush it under the boot heel of authoritarian oriental irrationalism.
Of course your comments are jarring today, you can barely contain your glee over this blow to the West, but tomorrow you will realize how wrong your remarks sound to those of us who aren’t so enamored of all things Eastern and exotic.
Richard:
You have no idea what a “Maoist” is, and it shows how low you have to go to avoid inconvenient things like facts.
“Western civilization” hasn’t been particularly pretty (in fact no civilization has), and your “rationalism” is oddly fact-free.
Look, it’s the folks you supported who brought us into this mess; own it.
So now Maoism is a secret doctrine only knowable by Zen Buddhist with special training? Sorry, but you’re not selling that garbage here.
The Middle Eastern terrorists have been attacking Western Civilization for close to thirty years now, of course, and if any single event got them started it was the pitiful defeat of Egypt and Syria in the 6-day war of 1967.
Grow up, dude.
And the attacks in the last thirty years are only the latest wave of the clash of Western (read: Christian) civilization with Mohammedan civilization. These guys are still sore over the loss of Andalusia and upset about the Crusades. Things that to us are ancient history and mere curiosities are the animating force of the terrorists.
And couple these long-stewing hatreds with the failure of their Nasserite socialist enterprises post-WW II and you have a regular powder keg.
It amazes me how little sense of history our Bush-hating friends have that they believe all of this is on account of one little Texan.