And?
Seriously. This is getting all too predictable.
We thwart a terrorist act, they tell us that we will be killed for the greater glory of Allah.
We help one of their leaders die for Allah, and all Americans must die.
Someone draws a cartoon mocking these “peaceful” individuals for their bloody ways, and the cartoonist must die.
People choose to reject their worldview, and they must die.
We could hold a banquet in their honor, eat the salad with the wrong fork, and that would somehow insult islam, and we would all have to die.
I know! Let’s bow to their sensibilities and not publish pictures showing what happens when someone goes all 4th Century on us and kills over 3000 civilians. I’m sure that they’ll see the error of their ways and renounce murder and mayhem as tools to achieve their goals!
Coddling doesn’t work.
Appeasement doesn’t work.
Making it extraordinarily clear that acts of aggression will be met with swift and terrible retribution will work.
Just ask Thomas Jefferson.
You know what will work? Submission.
I believe that is all pointed out in their good book.
I think that they are working on it, Car in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErzxOz3Dzv8&feature=player_embedded#at=194
BIC,
Will giving them a state work?
“Al-Qaida on Friday confirmed the killing of Osama bin Laden and warned of retaliation, saying America’s “happiness will turn to sadness.” ”
I have one question … have they talked to the average American in the past couple of years? We’re anything but happy.
It’s time, to quote a certain character played by Samuel L. Jackson, to “get medieval on their asses.” Nothing else will whip this Arabic death cult back to its kennel.
I’ll take the eventual sense of having overreacted for a few decades of peace and quiet.
Remember the movie Swordfish? I buy into it to a degree. That’s not to say that I’m interested in carpet bombing the Middle East, or at least not all of it, but there is actually some truth to the premise of consequences.
Sometimes fear is a sound and logical motivator. Do we want them to like us, sure, but as Machiavelli points out, “The answer is that one would like to be both the one and the other; but because it is difficult to combine them, it is far safer to be feared than loved if you cannot be both.”
So, they bomb a church, we bomb ten mosques, and so the theory goes. I see huge issues with it, however, when dealing with an enemy like AQ, and recognizing the importance of kinetic exhaustion among the population (see Iraq circa late-2006, early-2007) and there is some soundness to it. However, one must wonder if the long term consequences would surpass (as they likely would) the short term benefit.
The term “decimation” comes to mind.
“Making it extraordinarily clear that acts of aggression will be met with swift and terrible retribution will work.”
The firebombing of Dresden comes to mind.
Also Sherman’s March through the South.
The march of Islamic conquest through Europe in the sixteenth century was halted near Vienna, Austria by an overwhelming defeat administered by a large German and Austrian army and their allies. This stinging defeat for the Ottoman Empire initiated its decline and Islam had to wait a long time until modern technology provided a means for its fanatical elements to once again dream of conquest of the West.
They have again marched on Europe (and North America) through lax immigration policies and continue to also employ violence as a tool to overcome Western civilization.
This coordinated movement will not expire until they are convinced that violence is a sure means to overwhelming retribution.
We should have drawn and quartered him, sent his four quarters to the four corners of our nation and hung his head from the Statue of Liberty as a warning to all of those who would choose to stand against us. We piss them off no matter what we do, why not get a bit of mileage when we piss them off instead of gorveling like a weak ninny at their feet?
The strong survive.\
Oh, and Francis, it wasn’t Samuel L. Jackson who said that. It was Ving Rhaymes (sp?) playing Macellus Wallace. Same movie. Wrong character.
Yeah, I remembered that just now. But “they” all look alike to me, y’know? (tee hee)