tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post1243065437631205551..comments2024-03-19T07:48:54.021-06:00Comments on Gus Van Horn: Quick Roundup 145Gus Van Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-31248832825026731682007-01-29T22:51:00.000-06:002007-01-29T22:51:00.000-06:00"No country or terrorist group has the right to ta..."No country or terrorist group has the right to take a single American life...."<br /><br />This is exactly what so many of our leaders have already forgotten, and which the Moslems, along with the useful idiot known as Professor Bell hope we do not recall any time soon. And this is precisely my point in blogging this.<br /><br />And I more than share your frustration at the absurd amount of effort and attention this war -- against an unworthy foe as it is -- has been taking us. Recall Burgess Laughlin's identification about the origin of our welfare-state government's response in this war (being in the nature of a welfare state). In a sense, it is this very paralysis that is being used as a weapon against us. The Moslems would be nothing without forbearance or an ineffective response by the West.<br /><br />This fact is yet another reason the work John Lewis has been doing in outlining the proper response in this war has been so important, and why pretending that anything less is adequate is treasonous.Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-12393325701539783562007-01-29T21:28:00.000-06:002007-01-29T21:28:00.000-06:00I guess I should have specified which pig I was re...I guess I should have specified which pig I was referring to, but I thought that was obvious! :-)<br /><br />On a different note, I agree completely with your follow-on comment to my comment regarding Prof. Bell. The Muslim threat really is small. It is akin to the Muslim threat of 200 years ago of the Barbary Pirates. At that time, a much weaker United States under the guidance of Pres. Jefferson sent warships and the Marines to demoralize some of the sponsor states then of the piracy that had plagued our ships.<br /><br />I am infuriated that such a weak foe today occupies so much of the attention of our country's leaders. But, in addition to the infuriation, I do fear what could happen if a Muslim state sponsored a nuclear attack on a U.S. city. The Muslims are very inept (after all, they use the Koran as their textbook in their madrassas), but eventually they could lurch toward having practical nuclear weapons. Already, Pakistan is a Muslim state that has successfully developed nuclear weapons, North Korea may have a primitive nuclear weapon, and Iran is working hard to get one.<br /><br />The threat of a nuclear attack is why the Muslims must be forcefully dealt with. However, even if such a possibility did not exist, we should still deal with them. Why? Because we can. No country or terrorist group has the right to take a single American life, let alone the several thousand who died on 9/11.Galileo Blogshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02592692929747610846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-26303498372576049712007-01-29T20:14:00.000-06:002007-01-29T20:14:00.000-06:00RE: Derogatory pig portrayal.
But whichpig?
Ba-d...RE: Derogatory pig portrayal.<br /><br />But <i>which</i>pig?<br /><br />Ba-da-boom!Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-35508616103878552492007-01-29T15:46:00.000-06:002007-01-29T15:46:00.000-06:00Foolishness such as Just War Theory aside, Bell's ...Foolishness such as Just War Theory aside, Bell's argument would be something along the lines of "They aren't capable of doing as much damage to us as the Germans or the Japanese were, so the Islamofascists aren't such a huge threat."<br /><br />This has a grain of truth to it, except that all it does is describe how fortunate the irresolute West is to have such incompetents as foes. What Bell wants us to forget are (1) what our government is for, which is to make sure we face such threats as close to never as possible, and (2) how to achieve that end. Ignoring the role of state sponsorship of terrorism and the need to completely demoralize a sponsor state or two will not cause this low-grade (but still unacceptable) threat to disappear.Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-75792523187201964332007-01-29T15:43:00.000-06:002007-01-29T15:43:00.000-06:00Regarding your mascot, I heartily approve, but thi...Regarding your mascot, I heartily approve, but this is one case where I might empathize with a PETA activist who could see this as a heinous portrayal of pig abuse. Oink!Galileo Blogshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02592692929747610846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-19029967434244453472007-01-29T15:35:00.000-06:002007-01-29T15:35:00.000-06:00Regarding "Prof." Bell's argument, since only 2,47...Regarding "Prof." Bell's argument, since only 2,471 people died when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, I guess it was really silly for our disproportionate reaction then.<br /><br />Fewer people died at Pearl Harbor than at the 9/11 attacks, yet we responded by mobilizing 16,112,566 soldiers to unconditionally defeat two superpowers, Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.<br /><br />Compare that with our "War on Terror." I would suggest that our "prudence" in this war really is the height of silliness.Galileo Blogshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02592692929747610846noreply@blogger.com