Lileks makes points similar to what I said yesterday, only a lot more eloquently.
The top-of-the-hour radio news played today's news just as you'd expect - everything shoved through the tit-for-tat template. Israel attempts to take out a terror leader; Hamas "responds" with a bombing. As if they're equal. As if targeting the car that ferries around some murderous SOB is the same as sending a blissed-out teenager to blow nails and screws through the flesh of afternoon commuters so he can bury himself in the heaving bosom of the heavenly whorehouse. Cycle of violence, don't you know.They don't have helicopters, we're told, so they use suicide bombers. If they had helicopters, they would have strafed the bus and everyone waiting at the corner. Give them a nation where Hamas runs unchecked, and they'll have helicopters. They won't be Apaches. The bill of sale will be calculated in Euros and the manual written in French. By then the excuse for the terror won't be oppression; it'll be "the legacy of oppression." Sometimes I swear the mainstream media won't take a look at the Palestinian's horrid death-cult subculture until we learn that a suicide bomber played "Doom" at an Internet cafe for five minutes. And then they'll blame Intel.
I turn 29 today :)
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Happy Birthday. :beam:
And yeah, that’s a great Lileks.
Posted by: Solomon at June 12, 2003 3:22 PM
Thanks, Solomon! :)
I think “great” is redundant when you are talking Lileks ;)
Posted by: Shanti at June 12, 2003 3:28 PM
Didn’t know it was your b-day, Shanti.
Happy birthday, then!:beam:
Posted by: Gokul at June 12, 2003 5:24 PM
Thanks, Gokul :)
Posted by: Shanti at June 12, 2003 7:36 PM
Fine brandy… At 86, Lena Horne looked better than Twiggy at nineteen…
Hamas has admitted that the attack was planned before the IDF tried to take out a leader, but that they are planning more as “revenge”. If they don’t need a reason, why use one?
Posted by: John Anderson at June 13, 2003 1:00 AM
Thanks, John :)
Hamas uses “reasons” so the “useful idiots” can lap it up and broadcast it as if they were true, inspite of Hamas’ admissions to the contrary. Just some straws thrown the way of apologists for terrorists to clutch on to.
Posted by: Shanti at June 13, 2003 6:31 AM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHANTI :beam:
Any pearls of wisdome for us young ‘uns (turn 29 in 3 weeks :) )
Posted by: UncleDuke at June 14, 2003 2:29 PM
One can and should find, when examining the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, that this conflict is a small part of a larger conflict at hand; David Kelley (from The Objectivist Center) writes:
“At the deepest level … the war on terrorism is the latest phase of a long and continuing struggle to achieve the promise of modern civilization. The threat posed by the Islamist terrorists derives not from their Islamic background but from the ideas, values, and motivations they share with anti-modernists everywhere—including in the West. In that regard, they have not merely assaulted our civilization. They have attacked civilization as such.”
I could not agree more.
-Manan
Posted by: Manan at June 14, 2003 3:24 PM
A very good point, Manan. This isn’t even a clash of religions - this is the clash of the civilizations. I think there has got to happen an Islamic civil war between the moderates (if they do exist) and the extremists to establish a firm rein on the religion and lead it to modern ages willingly or not.
UncluDuke, Thanks :) Ah, kids these days! what can an old hag like me teach you? :tongue3:
Posted by: Shanti at June 14, 2003 3:26 PM