..never apologize...it's a sign of weakness.
Posted on 06/04/2005 11:10:16 PM PDT by CHARLITE
The consensus of film critics is that three of the four best Western movies ever made were those starring John Wayne: Stagecoach (1939), Red River (1948), and The Searchers (1956). (The fourth is Gary Cooper’s 1952 High Noon.) Many critics consider The Searchers to be one of the greatest movies, period, and has been the subject of numerous academic seminars. It is a lesser known John Wayne Western, however, that contains an important lesson for our relations with the Moslem world.
Directed by John Ford, made in 1948, entitled She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, it stars Wayne as Capt. Nathan Brittles as a retiring Cavalry officer facing an Indian attack (The New York Times’ review at the time called Wayne’s performance “Oscar-caliber”). The memorable line is the advice he gives to a junior officer. It’s listed by Guinness as one of the top 100 film quotes of all time:
Never apologize, son. It’s a sign of weakness.
It turns out that there is a growing number of aficionados of “SWAYR” who have bought the DVD at Amazon and taken this line to heart. What’s interesting about them is that they work at the Pentagon, the State Department, and the Bush White House.
Their numbers are small, but they are seriously sick and tired of squishing-out to the hadjis (the nickname our soldiers give the Moslem terrorists in Iraq and their sympathizers – pronounced “hah-geez,” referring to the Moslem pilgrimage to Mecca called the hadj). These sympathizers now include not just rioters on Pakistani streets but Newsweek magazine and Amnesty International.
“The more we kiss the hadjis’ tushes, the more they denounce us and the less they respect us,” one of them told me. Just take a look at the DOD’s procedures for the handling and inspecting of detainee Korans . You won’t believe how impossibly respectful and careful they are. What good does this do us? All we get is lies, lawsuits, and riots in return.”
The goal of these folks is to eliminate any “We’re sorry” message in State Department cables and communiqués, National Security Council analyses, and Pentagon press briefings – and inserting in their place, however subtly worded in diplo-speak, the message: “If you don’t like it, stuff it.”
Thus they were overjoyed this week when President Bush in his Rose Garden press conference contemptuously dismissed the Amnesty International accusation of Gitmo being a Gulag as “absurd.”
So they are focused now on gaining recruits within the White House speechwriters shop. They’ve asked for something like the following statement in an upcoming major presidential address:
“I want to make it very clear that neither this Administration nor the American military nor the American people owe an apology whatsoever to the religion of Islam and its believers. The American people have every right to take enormous pride in the respect which our military treats believers in Islam, and in the fact that the American military is not just the most powerful but the most humanitarian fighting force in the history of humankind. It is the Islamic terrorists and their followers who owe us an apology for making war on us, and owe an apology to their fellow believers in Islam for making war on them.”
Even the suggestion that the President make such a statement causes catatonic shock in Administration squishes. But the SWAYR folks are determined. They’ve even sent the DVD as a present to their boss. No apologies, Mr. President, they’re telling him, no weakness.
So cross your fingers he takes the movie and the message to heart. The day the President of the United States announces that Moslems owe an apology to us and not the other way around will be the day we truly begin to win this war.
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Don't hold your breath.
Oh Lord, hasten the day that I hear this from my President!
dang, and I was about to ping you to this :)
A couple of dozen Afghanis and Pakistanis, half way round the world are now DEAD, because one of their own got "P-ohed" with his force-fed "religion," and tried the toilet trick, which was miserably and irresponsibly misreported by Newsweek!
If that isn't stupifyingly unprofessional and out there in some insane stratosphere, I don't know what is! America ends up being blamed and leaps into calesthenic cartwheel apologies at the highest levels of our government, because ONE detainee abandonned his religion and made a symbolic gesture indicating same, by flushing pages of this book down the toilet of a cell in Guantanamo Bay!
As another writer said, "The way they carried on, killing each other all over the Muslim world, you would think that Newsweek had just discovered the equivalent of the Rape of Nanking!"
Char - things are getting out of hand in a hurry.
Please.
CNN: Detainees, Not Soldiers, Flushed Quran
Posted by Fred Nerks to West Coast Conservative
On News/Activism 06/03/2005 11:38:20 PM PDT · 16 of 99
Now there's a story I can believe, it's true because it's so simple and confirms what I know about human beings; these idiots have been in Gitmo long enough to realize that everything the the clerics told them about Christians and Jews and their 'divine, sinless' prophet is a load of codswallop - no one has cut off their heads, their arms or their legs, they haven't been put through shredders, good heavens, the Pentagon even issued a three-page Memo instructing the guards to wear white gloves when handling that terror manual that tells the 'good' muslim to kill infidels (that's you and me, in case you are wondering or don't think you qualify for infidel-hood) and hey, he's been there for (how long?) and all he's had is a clean bed, good food, showers, medical and dental treatment - what would you do if you were him, hey?
You'd stuff that stupid book down the toilet!
Jihadi, listen up now; the boys at Gitmo are trying to tell you something. That there koran, it ain't holy, it's full of shite and lies, pull the chain, push the button and lets give it up! IF YOU STAY IN GITMO LONG ENOUGH YOU'LL GIVE UP ISLAM 'COS GITMO'S MORE FUN THAN ISLAM IS!
And that's the simple truth of it.
and this is just plain fun, y'all
Oops, your website reference is wrong. Maybe we can get it fixed - it should be:
http://www.tothepointnews.com/
I wonder how many bibles and korans kept in desks, pocketbooks, briefcases, luggage and pockets were desacrated when their owners were burned alive or crushed on September 11, 2001?
Bump!
Great point, but easily rationalized away by muslims. They will kill their own without hesitation to meet their ends. It's a cult of brutal domination and death. The moral equivalance argument of desecrating a koran in some trivial manner vice the wholesale confiscation and destruction of other religious items, symbols, places of worship and slaughter of their beleivers makes me want to puke.
Probably not. But it will put them on notice that their bully tactics have worn a little thin and are not working anymore. That's progress.
..never apologize...it's a sign of weakness.
“I want to make it very clear that neither this Administration nor the American military nor the American people owe an apology whatsoever to the religion of Islam ........... the Islamic terrorists and their followers who owe us an apology for making war on us, and owe an apology to their fellow believers in Islam for making war on them.”
Words like this will NEVER come from the mouth of a Republican politician.
From Dweebster's Dictionary:
politician - postoperative castration patient.
Best westerns in my opinion are:
The Cowboys (starring John Wayne).
True Grit.
Support Your Local Sheriff.
The Outlaw Josey Wales.
Can't forget "The Shootist"
Best.
Ever.
Oh. . .yeah. . .and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"
"Yup, shaft and all..." :)
"Can't you see that man is a Nee..."
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