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Here's a HintWhen terrorists kill hundreds of children, shooting many of them in the back (and trust me, this is not the worst of what they did), it's NOT the fault of the security services and it's NOT a sign that negotiations and diplomatic solutions are called for and it's NOT a "local problem", despite what some idiots may thinksay.
Look, I'm really, really pissed off about this. We've got to stop saying "she asked for it" and face up to the fact that the jihadis are FUCKING TRYING TO KILL ALL OF US and they don't give a tinker's damn if they kill the little kids first or last. Hell, killing them first just makes it easier, I guess. At least, it got the Economist scared enough to go running for multi-cultural trans-nationalist shibboleths. Hey, if we can be desensitized to the brutal massacre of little kids this early in the game, we'll hardly squirm when they impale our sorry asses on a pole a decade hence.
And we'll fucking deserve it! Darwin wins in the end - he always does. It's simple truth: those who are matched to their environment survive, and those who aren't die. Well, as long as we in the West are willing to look in the cold dead eyes of a child and blame the security services instead of the monsters who shot the kid in the back, then we deserve to die.
One of the things that sticks with me is something my friend Nathan said: "A successful society is one where the last mother would if necessary die defending the last child." I hope we will be a successful society. I hate to think that we would willingly cede the future of humanity to the slime that perpetrated Breslan (hint to the Economist, I'm not talking about the security services).
And note that in the article it's never even mentioned that the killers were Muslims, that half of them were Arabs, that perhaps terrorism was involved somehow. No, no: close your eyes to that. That's a difficult problem to solve, and tips a lot of sacred cows. Let's instead talk about how long it took the Russians to response to an unprecedentedly brutal and inarguably no-win situation. Yeah, that's it.
Damn it, I'm so tired of this crap! How many of us - how many of our kids - need to lie dead on the ground before we decide it's OK to offend someone to stay alive??
I'd better stop now, because it'll just get worse if I keep thinking about this.
I couldn't have said it better myself. Your post said things the way they needed to be said at a time when they needed to be said. I'm no fan of Putin, or Chechnya for that matter, but if the supposed enlightened among us can't see that this was beyond the pale for "freedom fighters" (a title the left slobbers over no matter who wears it as long as it's not a conservative or Western military leader) then you're right: we do deserve it.
Posted by: nemesisenforcer on September 6, 2004 02:18 AMDamn, well said....maybe a few nukes will cure this animals....maybe if Mecca became glass it would open some eyes....
Posted by: on September 6, 2004 02:42 AMI notice two things about the article: 1) there is no by-line, so there no one is taking responsibility for writing it and 2) the sub-heading "A local problem, not a global one" - where they do mention possible links to al-Qaeda, but that it's primarily a local issue. After all, this couldn't be part of the global war on terror.
Posted by: Mark L on September 6, 2004 08:31 AM