The World Gone to Hell?
Over the weekend I was once again up at Lake Ann Camp for Freezeout. While there I made a comment about how I am so addicted to news that 48 hours away kills me, the world could go to Hell in a hand basket and I wouldn't even know.
Well in some respects it did happen over the weekend, as the "Cartoon Row" has gotten larger and more expansive around the world; the Danish Embassy in Beruit, Lebenon is in flames as protests continue and the Danish cartoonists that printed these cartoons fear for their lives.
I have yet to understand why this all goes on, why indiviuals get away with this kind of terrorism, all in the name of religion. If Christians did it our heads would be called for on the chopping blocks and we would be hunted down as criminals, but those that are offended by these cartoons, they get away with arson (among other things) and we fear them for it. Granted that there are some wonderful followers of Islam that are peaceful and just want to live normal lives, and yet, there are those that do not, those that resort to violence and terror. Peter Bookes's book "A Devil's Triangle: Terrorism, WMD, and Rouge states" gives a great crash course into the "Unholy Trinity" that the world faces now, and these riots are in a way, part of this axis. In light of recient events I highly recommend it - it will scare the living daylights out of you, and it should.
If this riot problem were not enough, I go back to the concept of "faction" once again and pull from Joel Rosenberg's latest novel, The Ezekiel Option, and the idea that one day there may be a call for Israel to disarm and relinquish her "nuclear capibilities" - that day, was yesterday.
To attempt to render Israel defenseless? That's gotta be the most asanine thing I've ever heard! Everyone knows that the powers at work in the Middle East will not abide by such an idea of Middle East non-proliferation, that at the first chance they get they would break that "treaty" and attack Israel. Why not do such a thing? The rhetoric of their governments demand the destruction of Israel. So they would go ahead and do so, with a smug look on their faces and say to the world - "Watch us! What will you do now as we continue to defy you?" Sadly the USA seems to be backing this idea, but thankfully Bush is still standing by his statement to defend Israel.
This just in
Catch him! I can't get out of my head the scene in "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" where Aragorn starts screaming at Legolas to take down with his bow the Urakai Orc that is going to light the fuse to detonate the bomb that will allow the Orc scourge to invade Helms deep. That's how I feel about Jamal Ahmed Badawi: catch him, interogate him, and then kill him, with impunity. We're at war and he is a chief soldier of our enemy.
Stay tuned and Informed - different bat-time, same bat-web address...
Well in some respects it did happen over the weekend, as the "Cartoon Row" has gotten larger and more expansive around the world; the Danish Embassy in Beruit, Lebenon is in flames as protests continue and the Danish cartoonists that printed these cartoons fear for their lives.
I have yet to understand why this all goes on, why indiviuals get away with this kind of terrorism, all in the name of religion. If Christians did it our heads would be called for on the chopping blocks and we would be hunted down as criminals, but those that are offended by these cartoons, they get away with arson (among other things) and we fear them for it. Granted that there are some wonderful followers of Islam that are peaceful and just want to live normal lives, and yet, there are those that do not, those that resort to violence and terror. Peter Bookes's book "A Devil's Triangle: Terrorism, WMD, and Rouge states" gives a great crash course into the "Unholy Trinity" that the world faces now, and these riots are in a way, part of this axis. In light of recient events I highly recommend it - it will scare the living daylights out of you, and it should.
If this riot problem were not enough, I go back to the concept of "faction" once again and pull from Joel Rosenberg's latest novel, The Ezekiel Option, and the idea that one day there may be a call for Israel to disarm and relinquish her "nuclear capibilities" - that day, was yesterday.
To attempt to render Israel defenseless? That's gotta be the most asanine thing I've ever heard! Everyone knows that the powers at work in the Middle East will not abide by such an idea of Middle East non-proliferation, that at the first chance they get they would break that "treaty" and attack Israel. Why not do such a thing? The rhetoric of their governments demand the destruction of Israel. So they would go ahead and do so, with a smug look on their faces and say to the world - "Watch us! What will you do now as we continue to defy you?" Sadly the USA seems to be backing this idea, but thankfully Bush is still standing by his statement to defend Israel.
This just in
Catch him! I can't get out of my head the scene in "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" where Aragorn starts screaming at Legolas to take down with his bow the Urakai Orc that is going to light the fuse to detonate the bomb that will allow the Orc scourge to invade Helms deep. That's how I feel about Jamal Ahmed Badawi: catch him, interogate him, and then kill him, with impunity. We're at war and he is a chief soldier of our enemy.
Stay tuned and Informed - different bat-time, same bat-web address...
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