The 1930s, Again: A hard rain is going to fall.

National Review ^ | March 25, 2002 | Victor Davis Hanson

[hellinahandcart]

I received an email (can't verify the truth of it) where Bush boldly asked a Christian who was greeting him, "Please pray for a protective shield over our country!"

I can verify that he said something very similar to that (can't remember the exact words but "protective shield" was in there) on the air, either in his weekly radio speech or in a televised speech. I heard it with my own ears. That was earlier in the day before Charles Bishop flew his Cessna into that building in downtown Tampa and caused harm to no one but himself.

Another freeper on one of the threads that evening remarked "And Bush asked us to pray for the country's protection today. Think I'll try praying, it seems to work."

[weikel]

You pinged Raimando now I can't participate for fear I might have to read his crap.

[4CJ]

LOL - I knew exactly what you meant. The problem is folks like the author who don't have a clue.

[billbears]

History teaches us that certain nations, certain peoples, and certain religions at peculiar periods in their history take a momentary, but deadly leave of their senses —

So fighting for your freedom is taking a 'deadly leave of their senses' along the lines of Nazi Germany, totalitarian Russia, and Hirohito's Japan? Might as well lop those evil men in the Revolutionary War in there as well. Bunch of drivel.

[aomagrat]

Yeah!

[tpaine]

Well said Noumemon.
This part of the article struck me as well:

"All the while, no American statesman has the guts to tell the Arab leadership that statism, tribalism, fundamentalism, gender apartheid, and autocracy — not America, not Israel — make their people poor, angry, and dangerous.

--- Just as no American statesman has the guts to tell the American people that statism, fundamentalism, gender apartheid, and a socialist autocracy — here in America, — may make our own people poor, angry, and dangerous.

[Constitution Day]

I'm a National Review subscriber, and usually their articles are, as the Brits say, "spot-on".

Occasionally they publish someone who strings exceedingly verbose, authoritative-sounding sentences together that just grate on my nerves.
This is one of those times.

He needs to educate himself on American history a little more, IMHO.

[Catspaw]

Wow, GREAT read. The litany of Islamic evils near the middle of this column is a great antidote to the "Islam is peace" horsesh*t being peddled on the airwaves these days. Now if we could just get talk this straight out of our "leaders"... but they're too busy eviscerating the Constitution and reading poll numbers.

The litany of Islamic evils in the piece barely scraped the surface. If he were to hard print every name of every victim of 9/11, every victim killed at the hands of Islamic terrorists in Israel, Afghanistan, in Kashmir, in Pakistan, and who knows where else, and there literally would not be a tree left in the United States and Canada.

[flamefront]

Thanks for the bump.

This article nails the source of the problems and underlines the need to act, but offers no specific response. Here's one for starters -- take back the Saudi oil fields as a penalty for all the terrorism.

[eno_]

In that context, we see much of a whipped-up Arab world entering this similar period of dangerous unreality.

The proof of this is that educated Moslems are just as rabid as the illiterate ones. We must put an end to Islam or it will put and end to us.

[EternalHope]

This is the stupidest thing I have read in a long time. And that is saying a good deal. The warhawks are so self-conscious about the weakness of their case in favor of war with the world -- "the war on a noun" -- that they are desperate to tie it to something concrete, like WWII. Hence the endless articles invoking Hitler and Czechoslovakia and Chamberlain. It is pathetic, really.

Since part of the article is about people like you, I am not surprised you found it "stupid".

[WaterDragon]

Victor Davis Hanson makes more sense with this article than anything I have heard or read since Sept 11. And the reason it makes sense is simply because every word is true.

[Noumenon]

We must put an end to Islam or it will put and end to us.

And that, my friends is reality.

[Noumenon]

No, their hatred is a badge of honor, and I would have it no other way.

In every respect, what is said in this article and especially with respect to the quoted statement above applies to liberals. Modern American liberals' hatred of men like me and families like mine IS a badge of honor.

[DallasDeb]

I think the Muslims would be much more hideous in their battles and pogroms than the Hitler regime. This time it won't be just the Jews who experience the holocaust. It will be Christians, as well.

[Urbane_Guerilla]

the sad, terrible reality is that it will take another 9-11 to wake up most Americans to the true nature of the Islamic war against us ... even well-intentioned and intelligent Americans are strangely oblivious to the threat we face ... before this is over, the solidarity of ordinary Americans will need to be galvanized by a new horror, which the moslem barbarians will surely inflict

[Humidston]

Thanks for the confirmation. Something tells me if we knew what Bush knows, we'd ALL be on our knees.