PTA: Parent, Teacher, Asshole

What Do the London Bombings Mean?

Bombs went off in London killing around 50 people and injuring 700. We all know it...and until we find proof of who did it, there's not much else to say about it. Except...

Except, of course, we have to debate what it means. And the American politicians are running around trying to get their interpretation out to the American populace...because apparently we can't figure it out on our own. And who do we hear the most? Liberal Chicken Littles. "Look, the sky is falling, the sky is falling! Run! Hide! Al Quaida's bringing the sky down!"

Like this guy...http://www.sobran.com/columns/2005/050707.shtml

He criticizes Bush and Blair for their "we will bring them to justice" statements.

Your walking home with your loved one and a mugger runs out, grabs your belongings, and shoots your loved one dead. Do you want to hear, "Well, that's a tragedy, but you shouldn't have been in this neighborhood" or "Don't worry, we'll catch these cowardly, low-down, dirty bastards and make them pay"?

And don't give me any of that, "It won't bring them back" rhetorical bullshit. No fuck it won't bring them back. Whether you call it justice or reveange, it has nothing to do with reversing the damage...it's about preventing others from doing this type of shit. And no, that doesn't mean that I think that, if it was al Quaida, going after them and killing Bin Laden, or at least bringing him to trial, will end terrorist attacks. There's always some psycho who says, "I know what's going to happen, and I'm going to do it anyways." There are millions of smokers who smoke even though they know the risks...well, I guess we should just stop putting the Surgeons General Warnings on the packs, you think? No, of course not, because there's always the chance that some kid will see all the horrible stuff that cigarettes can do and say, "Well, you know...maybe I won't try smoking." In the Middle East, some kid's going to say, "You know...maybe I won't go kill people just because I don't agree with them."

And there are probably people out there criticizing Blair for refusing to talk about the bombings at the G8 conference. I say, "Good on ya', mate. The topic is Africa, not the bombings. We've all got jobs to do, let's do them."

Here's another gem from this guy and repeated over and over by Liberals: "Be that as it may, four years of tough talk, two unfinished wars against ill-defined enemies, and the toppling and capture of Saddam Hussein seem to have left us about where we started."

Well, no Joe, your own list shows that we are not where we started. The toppling and capture of Saddam Hussein is what is commonly referred to as...an achievement. If we stopped right now, we wouldn't leave the world just as it was be Saddam Insane would be off the Dictators market. Now, if we did stop right now, it wouldn't be long before another schmoe would step up and begin oppressing, starving, and killing his own Iraqi people, and the Kurds, and Americans when they happened to be in the wrong American Embassy at the wrong time. But right now...we are not right where we started.

But before we go any further...let's make sure we take this opportunity, like every other discussion of our war with Iraq or the war on terrorism, and say that we were lied to. Well, ignoring the fact that lying to the American public in order to get the public approval to enter war has been going on since the turn of the 20th century, so we shouldn't be that shocked, how were we lied to? WMDs? You want undeniable proof he had them? Well, I want undeniable proof he didn't. That means proof that he didn't try and buy Uranium from Africa, that the guy who used chemical and biological weapons against the Kurds and his own people was not sneaking those WMDs out of the facilities in those three trucks just before the inspection team arrived, and that Saddam's communications with Osama were exchanges of cake recipes rather than terror recipes.

And for the record, Joe...the terrorists don't want to conquer Britain. As you said, "Its purpose, obviously, is to terrorize". They want us to leave them alone to kill whomever they feel like killing. General rule of discipline, if the kids get angry because of it, you're doing the right thing. And the kids are pissed. But then, not quite as argumentative either. 4 years ago they killed around 3000 people with a plan that took them, what...2 years to bring together? This time, somethring thrown haphazardly together and which killed 50 people. This isn't a pissing contest. I'm not trying to say ours and bigger than theirs...I'm saying the terrorists seem to be heading toward impotence. They're probably trying to make some terrorist viagra in those Iraqi chemical producing trucks.

We are making a difference. We are having a positive effect. If we pick up and quit now, it'll be another Somalia...where Clinton gave the terrorists what they wanted, the removal of US troops, and yet terrorists strikes against Americans still occurred, and escalated.

Al Quaida being an organized group vs. Bin Laden on the run and al Quaida being scattered.
Descalation of the scale of terrorist attacks (not number, scale) vs. escalation of the scale.
Hope of Democracy in Iraq vs. Iraq being run by mass-murdering Dictator.

Yep, we're just about where we started...

posted by Bodog @ 3:40 PM