Via Israellycool a pretty good youtube statement of the quite understandable reaction to world anger at the Jews:
Any questions?
Posts Tagged ‘history’
Open letter to the world
Posted: January 15, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/newsTags: history, Israel
Ricardo Montalban maker of Jihad?
Posted: January 15, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/newsTags: history, nelson award, nostalgia, reality
Mark Steyn reflecting on the death of Ricardo Montalban this week remembers an odd bit of history:
A few decades back, a young middle-class Egyptian spending some time in the U.S. had the misfortune to be invited to a dance one weekend and was horrified at what he witnessed:
“The room convulsed with the feverish music from the gramophone. Dancing naked legs filled the hall, arms draped around the waists, chests met chests, lips met lips . . .”
Where was this den of debauchery? Studio 54 in the 1970s? Haight-Ashbury in the summer of love? No, the throbbing pulsating sewer of sin was Greeley, Colo., in 1949. As it happens, Greeley, Colo., in 1949 was a dry town. The dance was a church social. And the feverish music was “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” written by Frank Loesser and sung by Esther Williams and Ricardo Montalban in the film “Neptune’s Daughter.” Revolted by the experience, Sayyid Qutb decided that America (and modernity in general) was an abomination, returned to Egypt, became the leading intellectual muscle in the Muslim Brotherhood, and set off a chain that led from Qutb to Zawahiri to bin Laden to the Hindu Kush to the Balkans to 9/11.
You think that’s odd, remember the banning of Barbie or the assertion that Pokemon is a Zionist conspiracy?
This bunch of lunatics are living proof that all cultures and civilizations are not equal. Their every waking moment is one big Nelson.
And this is just the stupid stuff, not the Burkas or the honor killings or the killing or imprisonment of gays, ( but not in Iran as they don’t exist there) or the religious police making girls burn to death et/al. Yet that is the crowd that the left chooses to embrace over a pluralistic Israel.
Amazing!
Another Gene Robinson vs Rick Warren thought
Posted: January 12, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/newsTags: history
It just hit me.
Until 2008 a pastor like Rick Warren would never have been considered a controversial choice to be at any inaugural event. His inclusion wouldn’t have caused an eye to bat once.
Until 2008 a Bishop like Gene Robinson would have been impossible to include in any inaugural event without a massive uproar that would have been politically untenable.
This says how much the country in general and the media & Democratic party in particular has changed.
What you believe will determine if you think this is a good or bad change.
An expensive but incredible advantage
Posted: January 12, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news, warTags: history, War on Terror
In the book Ship of the Line C.S. Forester’s Hornblower has this thought:
As part of the programme for training his men into fighting machine it would be invaluable to give them firing practice while actually under fire from the enemy—no one knew better than Hornblower the difference between being fired at and not being fired at. He found himself in the act of thinking that one or two unimportant casualties might be worth receiving in these circumstances as part of the crew’s necessary experience
When you look at the US Army and those who say it is wounded and battered there is one thing that is completely overlooked. As of today the Department of Defense has confirmed 4858 deaths in the 7 years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan. That is about 700 a year or just over 2 a day. In terms of war that’s pretty low.
To give you an idea at Cold Harbor the US army lost 1700 men dead in 15 minutes on one day. Or a better example in Korea with 480,000 Americans engaged we lost 36,000 men dead in 3 years.
The end result for the Army? We now have an army with solid fighting experience. Urban warfare, insurgent warfare, desert warfare, in mountain warfare etc etc etc. We have a huge core of troops who have preformed under fire magnificently. That experience and esprit can’t be purchased. I pity any enemy who has to face they men and women. They will be outclassed. No army on the planet can compare to this.
In addition these men and women will be the teachers of our children who will serve, hopefully in peacetime. It is their experience that will not only make them better soldiers but will help keep them alive. Our foes will think twice before facing them and us. This will save many thousands of lives and will likely preempt actions against us and our friends saving tens of thousands.
That result will be the finest tribute to the fallen that can be made.
