Ten Years of War

Sultan Knish ^ | Daniel Greenfield

[ventanax5]

Like a ship pulling away from shore, time brings distance to all events. No pain is as fresh ten or twenty years later as on the day it happened. The shock of the impossible becomes the new normal and then it becomes more background noise.

"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic," said Joseph Stalin. This is something that the statisticians in Berlin, Moscow, Tehran and Riyadh know quite well when they count up their numbers. But compound death is not a statistic, it is incomprehensible. The banality of the media coverage of September 11 reveals the struggle of grappling with a story too big to tell that can only be broken down into human fragments of personal stories.

This is true for most of the dark footprints of history. There is no story of the Holocaust, there are only countless personal stories of survivors and the procedural story of the Nazi killing machine. These perspectives never come together into a single story only human fragments and procedural details, the departments and mechanisms, how many milligrams of Zyklon B it takes per kilogram to kill a person and how many people can be loaded on a train in how much time.

The coverage of 9/11 breaks down into these same mini-stories, survivors describing how they escaped, the families of the dead relating how they reacted to the news, the stories of firefighters and officers, and the procedural questions, how long it takes a falling body to achieve terminal velocity and what happens to the human body when it breathes in enough ash and soot. On the other side are the killers who plotted and planned, checked flight schedules, got their boxcutters and their korans and killed thousands for Allah.

[mylife]

Sadly, Obama has sold our troops down the river.

[RasterMaster]

Ten years of war? Bull$hit...more like centuries fighting the jihadi. You either understand that fact or you're their victim.

[hosepipe]

The only way this can be fought is to clean the terrorists out of Congress..
There is a Trojan Horse of malefactors within our camp..
Also, the President is indeed an enemy...

It is a wasted effort before cleaning our own house..

[raygun]

Any of you guys pressing 1 for English?

[Forward the Light Brigade]

We must Dump Political Correctness. Islam has nothing for any modern culture. They know its a Holy War—we are the fools who insist they are a peaceful people. We must show them our game face and not try to accommodation these people. How you ask?
1. Drill Drill Drill our own oil.
2. Dig, dig, dig our own coal.
3. use gas
4. Use nuclear power (but safe)
5. Use wind power too.
6. Stop the war on Christian Churches!
7. Stop the secular progressive foolishness in the schools
8. No more Mosques—Islam isn’t a religion—its a cult.
9. No Moslems in the military.
10. Stop bowing down to tyrant kings in the middle east.

[steel_resolve]

I have been on freerepublic for who knows how many years. This is one of the top three articles I will ever read on here. thank you.
F you islam. You want a war? I will give you a war.

[PRePublic]

Good post.

[expat1000]

“Ten years of war? Bull$hit...more like centuries fighting the jihadi.”

From the article:
“Ten years of war have passed, and before that a thousand years of war with lulls and pauses, but the din of the scimitar being sharpened for war never truly stopped.”

[expat1000]

“I have been on freerepublic for who knows how many years. This is one of the top three articles I will ever read on here. thank you.”

I urge you to read all of Daniel’s articles, either here (if someone else doesn’t post them, I will, possibly in Bloggers and Personal) or on his website. You might want to read this one in particular, written 2 years ago which I recently posted.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2776612/posts

Maybe the best way I can express my thoughts about Daniel’s writings is to say that he is the only writer/blogger I’ve ever made a donation to. I believe what he has to say is important, and the more people that hear it, the better.

[caww]

Obama just gave the Talebon a recognized seat at the table in Qutar. On THIS day!

[RasterMaster]

"But what is war anyway but a framework for violence, which the Muslim world hardly needs."

VIOLENCE is the only thing the bastards respect or understand. Another blog pimp without a clue.

[expat1000]

It is too bad you are not capable of reading an entire sentence or two:

"A hundred years ago the attacks of September 11 would have marked the beginning of a war, but in this century they only marked a day of pain and sorrow, and ten years of a war that was not truly a war. But it is still this conflicted unwar that the tenth anniversary marks. A war that can never end because it never truly began.

But what is war anyway but a framework for violence, which the Muslim world hardly needs. While we search around for an enemy to declare war on, all they need is a Fatwa with a clerical argument dubbing us the enemy, our nation, our soldiers, our civilians and our children. All of us."

I guess I will have to spell it out for you:
We have to be at war in order engage in violence; to use massive, destructive force. We need that because our morality demands it.

Muslims don't. All they need is a Fatwa with a clerical argument dubbing us the enemy, our nation, our soldiers, our civilians and our children. All of us."

Put another way: "But what is war anyway but a framework for violence, which the Muslim world hardly needs [AS AN EXCUSE]."

Talk about not having a clue!

[RasterMaster]

Oh I read it....in it's entirety. But it took a whole page to say what could be said in a couple sentences....or better yet a couple pictures.

Islam: A CULT of murderous goat-humpers.....

[RasterMaster]