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2004-05-12 Home Front: WoT

Belmont Club: emotionalism and the Abu Ghraib photos.

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Posted by Mike 2004-05-12 2:14:54 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The video of the beheading of Beck does not need to be shown. You don't need to really see it for it to make you physically ill, and to paint a picture of the Islamists.

Close your eyes and complete the picture. You can see the "inspirational leader" bin Laden, declaring the religious duty of all Muslims to kill innocent Americans wherever they are found, men in caves planning murderous attacks, embassies blown up, and children with bombs strapped to them. With your eyes closed, you can call back images of commercial planes, flown by suicidal fanatics but occupied by ordinary Americans, flying into tall buildings and see the buildings come down. You can see school busses, cafes, hotels, and train stations torn apart and strewn with body parts of innocence. Horrific images of severed heads, charred corpses hanging from girders and bodies drug through streets of cheering people chanting Allah Akbar - God is great. With eyes still closed, you can see and hear calls for more deranged killing by black hooded terrorists and bearded, robed clerics from Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the Palestinian territories, Africa, Indonesia, France, Sweden, London, and even from America.

This picture makes some seek peace at any price, a peace that can never truly be. For others, for the vast majority of Americans, the pictures harden the resolve to eradicate the ideas that have made the picture a reality of our time.

Posted by Rock 2004-05-12 3:21:59 PM|| 2004-05-12 3:21:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 To eradicate the ideas, we are going to eradicate a great many of the perps. But you are right, I hope it serves to harden the resolve. I fear that the resolve of a great number of Democrats is about as hard and serious as ice cream.

Posted by Jake 2004-05-12 5:55:44 PM|| 2004-05-12 5:55:44 PM|| Front Page Top

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