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One of the funniest things I think I’ve ever read:
File this one under “Deluded Expectations.” During MSNBC’s coverage of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, on Thursday, daytime anchor Alex Witt seemed frustrated that the election of Barack Obama 23 days earlier — and the accompanying “global outpouring of affection, respect, hope” — had not caused an end to terrorist violence.
Talking with correspondent John Yang, who was covering the Obama side of the story, Witt conceded that while “you certainly can’t expect things to change on a dime overnight….There had been such a global outpouring of affection, respect, hope, with the new administration coming in, that precisely these kinds of attacks, it was thought — at least hoped — would be dampered down. But in this case it looks like Barack Obama is getting a preview of things to come.”
It almost seems like a parody of liberals’ blind worship of Obama to actually expect that The One’s election would mean terrorists hanging up their bomb belts, peace around the world, lions lying down with lambs, and so forth.
And yet…that’s precisely how they “think,” Exhibit A being this almost pitifully plaintive exchange, Exhibits B-Z being all the other dolts out there who have repeated the same sort of puerile balderdash not only from day One of the primaries, but from day One of the WoT, when you get right down to it.
They’re so much smarterer than you are, see. If you don’t believe it, just ask ‘em.
Somewhat related: an NPR propagandist finally sees the light and actually calls terrorists not only “terrorists,” but “evil,” instead of “extremists,” “militants,” “gunmen,” or even “freedom fighters” — now that somebody he actually likes and supports is President, natch.
Ready to fight back now, assholes? Of course, the toothsome irony here is that, thanks in large measure to these handwringing, corrupt shitweasels, we’ve just “elected” a Pee-resident who’s even less likely than Bush to energetically do so.
As ye have sown, so shall ye fucking idiots sure as hell reap. Tough ol’ world, ain’t it?
Update! So I got to thinking: how many Muslim terrorist attacks had to occur after 9/11 before progressivist mental giants finally woke up? Apparently, the number is 12,334. Not counting this last one, that is.
That’s some real deep-dish nuance, there.
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As one of their petted favorites said "Screw Them".
Talk about a lack of intellectual curiousity.
Consider this. In around the eight century, Islam burst its banks in Arabia and flooded the planet for thousands of miles around. It only stopped in Mauritania because the Atlantic got in the way. It washed up in Indonesia, half a planet away. It reached halfway into France and to Vienna. Its expansion was characterised by a barbarity that really only the Mongols rivalled, but over a much longer timespan. I doubt there's any way to gauge the true cost of Islamic imperialism, but one estimate I've read put it at 270 million dead over the centuries. When the Muslim invaders swept into northern India, they were so savage that entire towns disappeared. A generation later, no-one could say where they had been. That Hindus are polytheists and Buddhists atheists (plus, to Muslim eyes, idolators) particularly enraged them. Quite often no quarter was given. A city could be depopulated to the last child. And Islam is sticky. Once you let it in, it takes a heroic level of resistance and a lot of time to flush it out again. The battle of Tours, when Charles Martel stopped to northward advance of Islam into France, was 732. The Reconquista was 1492. The lifting of the siege of Vienna was 1683. The time between halting Islam in Western Europe and finally removing its stain from al Andalus (760 years) is less time than 1492 is to the present day (512 years). Norman Podhoretz calls the current situation World War IV (WWIII having been the Cold War). Sorry, Pod, but this is World War Zero. It is the ur-War. It is the categorical struggle of civilisation vs. barbarism. It has been going on for 1400 years. Set against that timespan, presidencies flicker past like frames of a movie projected on a bloodthirsty mural.
Not being content with mere Pakistan and Bangladesh, the latter-day barbarian hordes want to bring the entire sub-continent under the Muslim yoke (and the rest of the world, too). In the 20th century alone, inter-religious wars in the region killed several million people. It takes a breathtaking level of historical ignorance to cast the Bush administration (or the US as a whole over its entire history) as anything other than peripherally involved in all this. There's no answer to that amount of navel-gazing fatuity except to knee people like Witt in the nuts and then kick them in the jaw on the way down.