The Cellar - View Single Post

Urbane Guerrilla · 08-18-2006, 01:44 PM

DanaC, now here is where you exhibit a terrible blindness: Iraq is not a separate war, as the defeat-America-now pundits have it, but a campaign within the wider war. Major efforts in international terrorism don't happen without national sponsorship. Shadowy terrorist groups may have no vital assets they need defend, but their national sponsors are vulnerable there. We are to teach the nations that it is very harmful to them to support anti-American bigots, or to conduct war against America by proxy means -- that in the end, it all comes out the same, and not how they wanted: that their country gets gone over by a disc harrow and plowed into fragments and dust. Then we do the Marshall Plan thing and rebuild them more in our image, whereupon they succeed in a fashion previously undreamable.

Wars are like dynamite. They do their work by smashing things. It's bootless to complain, and more constructive to clear the resulting rubble of what had previously been an objectionable obstacle.

For generations, Dana, we've been the target of every foreign idiot with a bomb and a grudge, and a few native-born idiots too (but that's a side issue), and I say we have suffered too long and too much at the hands of destructive, anti-human fools. Time for them to pay for their fun with their lives. Our antidemocracy/antihuman, totalitarian and therefore evil foes talk a lot of guff about how happy they will be to be shahidim -- well, if all of these would-be martyrs were to immediately and simultaneously fall dead and be taken up to their heaven, where they might get seventy-two Virginians instead of seventy-two virgins -- uh oh, the great bulk of our troubles in the world's Islamic regions would vanish as suddenly.

Tell me: are we in any way obliged to have petroleum resources hostage to unfriendlies? I think we are not. Anti-Americans think we should be. If these people really need something to complain about, I suppose I could always come up and pee into one or more of their pockets. I don't have much patience with the antis.

08-18-2006, 01:44 PM	#267
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	DanaC, now here is where you exhibit a terrible blindness: Iraq is not a separate war, as the defeat-America-now pundits have it, but a campaign within the wider war. Major efforts in international terrorism don't happen without national sponsorship. Shadowy terrorist groups may have no vital assets they need defend, but their national sponsors are vulnerable there. We are to teach the nations that it is very harmful to them to support anti-American bigots, or to conduct war against America by proxy means -- that in the end, it all comes out the same, and not how they wanted: that their country gets gone over by a disc harrow and plowed into fragments and dust. Then we do the Marshall Plan thing and rebuild them more in our image, whereupon they succeed in a fashion previously undreamable. Wars are like dynamite. They do their work by smashing things. It's bootless to complain, and more constructive to clear the resulting rubble of what had previously been an objectionable obstacle. For generations, Dana, we've been the target of every foreign idiot with a bomb and a grudge, and a few native-born idiots too (but that's a side issue), and I say we have suffered too long and too much at the hands of destructive, anti-human fools. Time for them to pay for their fun with their lives. Our antidemocracy/antihuman, totalitarian and therefore evil foes talk a lot of guff about how happy they will be to be shahidim -- well, if all of these would-be martyrs were to immediately and simultaneously fall dead and be taken up to their heaven, where they might get seventy-two Virginians instead of seventy-two virgins -- uh oh, the great bulk of our troubles in the world's Islamic regions would vanish as suddenly. Tell me: are we in any way obliged to have petroleum resources hostage to unfriendlies? I think we are not. Anti-Americans think we should be. If these people really need something to complain about, I suppose I could always come up and pee into one or more of their pockets. I don't have much patience with the antis. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.