Thursday, February 25, 2010

And another thing...

In the previously mentioned blog, it states "a determined terrorist enemy loves nothing better than to see his operatives handled like civilian criminals". Remember my comment on stupidity ? Well, double it.

AQ and other groups hate being seen as common criminals - they crave more than almost anything to be seen as warriors, fighting jihad in the manner of their forefathers, brave soldiers facing the infidel hordes. And the previous dumb sob in the White House handed them that recognition on a plate: 'you are all enemy combatants, with a new unique status, and not at all like drug dealers, perverts and rapists'. (and they got a rather natty orange jumpsuit as a free uniform).

Dear God, please shine a little of your light on those who claim to have you in the centre of their lives and outlook.

There is an actual serious point: no matter your views (if you are a well-adjusted person) you might feel that if you'd grown up, say, in Palestine, you might just be tempted to pick up a rock, petrol bomb or gun and have at the Israelis - and similarly for the cliched young, Muslim, 2nd-generation immigrant lost in an infidel land looking for an identity, a noble cause, a chance to be a man.

But Islam, like all the big religions, has a real down on crime. So, if the local bandit/guerilla/freedom fighter heroes are actually seen by polite society in your neighbourhood as more akin to the crims I mentioned above - then do you think it might be less likely you'd join them, or more likely?

Hmm, I think we know the answer...

There, that's it - now take a rest, you've just been using a part of your body that hasn't had much exercise lately (once the headache wears off, trying looking at Fox news with a new perspective... and keep that brain active, or today's gains will soon be lost).

okay, that's enough - go back to hot air little dawgie. The rest of you, thanks for bearing with me :-)

Right-wingers and stupidity go together like... hot dogs and mustard?

What is it with right-wingers in the US, are they born stupid, or it gets handed out when they sign-up for that smart black uniform and those gucci leather boots ?

Phew, sorry bout that. See http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2010/02/25/identifying-terror/ to get an idea of why I'm so angry. The blog is nothing special (hot air sums it up entirely), in that it is typical of much right-wing ranting (okay, okay I can talk...) since Ft Hood.

Let me help out the hard of thinking (and God knows there are a great many of them).

If you label, officially, Hasan's murderous rampage as terrorism, then how do you objectively distinguish that from the many (too many) other nut-jobs going postal across the fair land ? And not, "Well Bubba, ah knows terrorism when ah sees it.." - but real, hard-nosed, legal, intelligent, objective analysis.

Get it yet ? The answer is almost certainly, that it can't be done. So if Ft Hood is terror, then how many of those other attacks would then fall under that same heading? (Is the penny finally dropping?)

And the good ol US of A instantly becomes - officially, legally - "the most terror-ridden country on the planet". And would that be good for business, do you think, Mr T Party?

So, rather than cowards, the Washington politicos are simply smart, and do not want the country's image dragged through the mud (or the level of endemic violence highlighted any more than it already is).

But of course they're smart: they are running the country, whilst the hard-of-thinking whine and whine online, and on air, and on Fox... To blacken the nation's reputation around the globe.

(Yup, it took a little anger to get me back to this blog...)

:-)