Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Really, what a novel idea!

“We need to send a new message, and fast, that attacking our embassies is as dangerous as drawing down on a cop: you should expect to be shot.”

Amen to that. You send soldiers into war zones armed with guns. We send our diplomatic staff into equally dangerous places armed with…what, exactly? Copies of Obama’s Cairo speech?

By the way, don’t miss Jeff Goldstein’s utterly devastating and comprehensive summary of our current political environment. A taste:
As the bodies of our slain diplomats were being unloaded from the transport planes in a staged maudlin public spectacle, Obama’s Twitter account was pimping sweatshirts; and the Obama election team was preparing a National Yard Sale Day for Obama.
Also: will Attorney General Eric Holder be filing an amicus brief supporting the prosecution?
Egypt's general prosecutor on Tuesday issued arrest warrants for Florida Pastor Terry Jones and seven Coptic Christian Egyptians linked to an anti-Islam video on YouTube that sparked riots across the Middle East, The Associated Press is reporting.

Update: Jeffrey Lord is on fire, stomping all over the pretentious nonsense that is this administration’s foreign policy.
Can you imagine if the Roosevelt administration sent the Secretary of State in front of newsreel cameras to insist that in fact there was no need for war on December 8, 1941, because there was no connection between the previous day's Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the aggressive desire of the Japanese for military expansion? That the whole problem revolved around the film portrayal of an Asian (Chinese) detective named Charlie Chan? Then banned the U.S. government from using words or phrases that might offend the Shinto religion which proclaimed the Japanese Emperor was a god?

What if the Secretary of State of the day insisted there was no connection between Nazism's anti-Semitic ideology and the ongoing Holocaust? That all those death camps for Jews were really the fault not of Nazi ideology but a mocking, tasteless anti-Nazi film… made in America called I'll Never Heil Again. A film made by three Hollywood Jews named Louis Feinberg, Moses and Jerome Horwitz? Known professionally by the names of Larry, Moe and Curly -- The Three Stooges?

8 comments:

Deadman said...

Ooh, you’d better not let our esteemed Australian PM hear you recommend the use of guns. In a tardy but pious reaction to the Muslims’ rioting in Sydney on Sunday—which, according to many apologists, was wholly the fault of a naughty film-maker—, our beloved Leader opined, “There is never any excuse for violence!”
I imagine that jihadists might welcome such pronouncements of mindlessly meek, pacifist submission.
I agree—as Thomas Jefferson did—that “Breaking into embassies is […] an act of war.” Would that we had someone of the calibre of Jefferson in government to stand up to such bellicosity.

Minicapt said...

“There is never any excuse for violence!”- She's right, but there are reasons galore.

Cheers

RebeccaH said...

Arrest warrants for Terry Jones and his Coptic Christian friends, eh? Sure, Egypt. Come and get 'em.

We dare you.

Michael Lonie said...

Fatwas next?

I wonder if the Egyptian government will try an official request for extradition? After all, blasphemy against Islam is a serioous crime in Egypt, potentially punishable by death (nobody there worries about blasphemy against Christianity or Judaisim except Christians and Jews, and they don't count with Muslims any more than they do with the Obama Administration). And if the prisoner is by some miracle aquitted, he can count on being lynched.

The Obama Administration has finally made its intent to trample civil liberties so obvious that even Democrats can see it, though that doesn't prevent them from trying to excuse it to themselves so they can avoid agreeing with those ghastly Packs and Tea Partiers. The transgressions of Obama, Holder, and company should be constant speech content, ads, and talking points for the Romney campaign, from now until November, along with pointing out the manifold failures of the Obamites, and explanations of what the Romney Administration will do to turn things around.

SwampWoman said...

Apparently the only people that are shot anymore are pet dogs that are on their owner's porches, in their yards, or in the house, and innocent bystanders.

Michael Lonie said...

Can't let those innocent bystanders get away with innocently standing by. No telling what might happen. Look at the Rodney King riots.

Anonymous said...

Deborah Leigh said...We need Thomas Jefferson and General Pershing. Pershing liked using pig's blood. How about we fire off a few rounds from the ships off Libya with the warning being that the next salvo be bathed in pig's blood, and aimed at land, not just Libya.

The information in the film is nothing new. Many people have put it out. Daniel Pipes, Wahlid Shoebat, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Robert Spencer, and others. Muslims do not hold truth as a virtue. Why would they since they are allowed to lie?

Why haven't we expelled Egypt's and Libya's ambassador?

Michael Lonie said...

What passes for a govenment in Libya, at least, seems to be cooperating with us to track down the terrorists. Of course, it might be like Pakistan's "cooperation" with us against the Taliban. We'll see.

I emailed my Congresscritters urging them to cut off all aid to Egypt and not allow that $1 billion debt forgiveness agreement the Obama Administration has been negotiating. I doubt they'll try; all three belong to the Jackass Party.

We should also cut off all visas and take other steps, both against Egypt and against other Muslim countries where large riots attacked US diplomatic facilities. There should be a price to pay for damaging, dissing, and insulting the USA. If that was the case, there would be less dissing etc. directed at us. I think that if we were more feared we'd not only be more respected, but also better liked; strong horses and weak horses, after all.