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We're Culturally Sensitive And Tote Really Big Guns-Steyn

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Posted by Beavis 2011-05-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Pithy

Posted by newc 2011-05-07 02:49|| 2011-05-07 02:49|| Front Page Top

#2 It took 13 years before the British could avenge Gordon's death and rid the Sudan of "Mahdism." General Henry Horatio Kitchener, who had been on the failed effort to rescue Gordon, led a new army up river, culminating in the uneven battle of Omdurman, near Khartoum, in September of 1898, in which the superior fire power of the British prevailed.

Kitchener had the Mahdi's tomb destroyed and his bones cast into the Nile, so as to leave nothing for the Mahdi's followers to rally around, he would later explain.

But the Mahdi's skull -- "large and shapely" as it would be described -- was presented to Kitchener, perhaps as a souvenir drinking cup. Kitchener suggested sending it to the College of Surgeons in London, where he thought Napoleon's intestines resided.

When the word got out, there was a howl of fury from the British press, unfriendly questions in parliament, and a condemnation from Queen Victoria herself, who said that removing the Mahdi's skull was "too much like the Middle Ages, " according to Kitchener biographer, Philip Warner.

Winston Churchill, who accompanied Kitchener's campaign, later wrote that he was "scandalized" by the "barbarous manner" in which Kitchener "had carried off the Mahdi's head in a kerosene can as a trophy."

Kitchener wrote an apologetic letter to the queen and the head was secretly buried in a Muslim cemetery.

On the day after Kitchener's victory, however, he wisely enlisted Mahdi's defeated army into his own Egyptian army, and no insurgency bedeviled the British in the Sudan thereafter.

Posted by john frum 2011-05-07 07:36|| 2011-05-07 07:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Whether its a picture of the charred remains being picked at upon Desert One, the dragging of the body of a fallen soldier in the Mog upon Black Hawk Down, or the bodies of the contractors hanging from the Fallujah bridge, the muzzies have set the standards for 'cultural sensitivity'. Know well this, the hand wringers and apologist who were absent their 'outrage' upon those incidents are now clearly showing they are with the enemy. It's not about 'civilized' behavior as much as surrendering to the enemy. They are saying 'shut up and get into the cattle car'.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-05-07 08:56|| 2011-05-07 08:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Or, as a Polish writer entitled his novel: This Way To The Gas Chambers, Ladies and Gentlemen.

Posted by borgboy 2011-05-07 15:30|| 2011-05-07 15:30|| Front Page Top

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