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Please enjoy this passage from Mark Harvey, aka Snooper, and his essay, "America: The Enemies Within and Without":
I have been preaching this on my Soap Box for nearly 30 years now as those that know me will attest; many in recent years. Make no mistake, people. The Marxists of this world would love nothing better than to slaughter the Eagle. And, to those that created the environment that enabled a Marxist to get "elected" - via voter and campaign fraud unchallenged - I have many things to say but primarily, may you rot in hell and I hope I have the pleasure of sending you to your final destination. There is no forgiving you...not in my lifetime.
America used to know who she was at one time. In recent times, we knew for nearly a whole month. Then, the anti-Americanists of Code Whore Pink Sluts and Pigs and other such Marxist shits oozed from under their spider holes and began their usual nonsense ... as their mommies and daddies did while toking on a number and digging on the radio. It would behoove all to go here and find out what it really is the government does for you...and to you. And, everyone should count their blessings for having the honor of living in the still greatest Nation on Earth, the America bashing sycophants of the new world order aside and not withstanding.
This post is inspired by two angry anti-American commenters at this blog, commenters who have called me a "hater" and "terrorist" because of their inability to rebut the opinions I have expressed: Ben Sutherland and James Casper. When I first read Snooper's piece, Ben and James came immediately to mind.
Dorothy Rabinowitz raises ultimate questions of moral responsibility in the West's reponse to terror in Mumbai. Why are these diabolical killings treated with such equanimity at the major news outlets? Rabinowitz discusses how some networks turned to Deepak Chopra for "expert" analysis on the attacks, and he responded by blaming the United States:
How the ebullient Dr. Chopra had come to be chosen as an authority on terror remains something of a mystery, though the answer may have something to do with his emergence in the recent presidential campaign as a thinker of advanced political views. Also commending him, perhaps, is his well known capacity to cut through all sorts of complexities to make matters simple. No one can fail to grasp the wisdom of a man who has informed us that "If you have happy thoughts, then you make happy molecules."
In his CNN interview, he was no less clear. What happened in Mumbai, he told the interviewer, was a product of the U.S. war on terrorism, that "our policies, our foreign policies" had alienated the Muslim population, that we had "gone after the wrong people" and inflamed moderates. And "that inflammation then gets organized and appears as this disaster in Bombay."
It's not just the pundit class, but our top elected officials as well, including the president-elect, who have been underwhelming in their condemnation of the atrocities.
Across the blogosphere, of course, there's been a predictable split between moral outrage and moral indifference and equivalence. Quaker Dave, for example - who seems to use his religious identification as a mask for revolutionary anti-Americanism - basically threw up his hands in refusing to denounce the violence:
I’ve been trying to figure out how to comment on the slaughter that took place this week in Mumbai, India.
I’ve been following it as we all have.
I can make no sense of it. There’s no logic or reason for it.
All of it is senseless.
It’s terribly tragic. It serves no purpose. It will advance no cause.
All that will happen, after the clean up and the funerals and the investigations and the grandstanding, is that there will probably be international recriminations and repercussions.
And reprisals.
So more people will die.
And nothing will change.
And all that will have been accomplished is that so many innocent people will have died.
For nothing.
As usual.
Notice something here: There's no statement of moral outrage. Indeed, there's a brain-bursting unwillingness to condemn the attackers. You see, basically, no one is to blame. This kind of thing just happens, you know ...
Innocents have been stalked, tied up, tortured, and murdered, and Quaker Dave refuses to point fingers and name names. It's so characteristic of "progressive" activists.
It's all "terribly tragic," and unfortunately we wouldn't want to alienate "peaceful" Muslims by calling out Islamic leaders to repudiate their own faith. Islam kills. It's a religion of victory, and those in the West don't do well for themselves by inviting the Deepak Chopra's of the celebrity world as commentators on such an unbelievable evil.
The New Hampshire Union Leader credits President Bush for the safety of the nation over the Thanksgiving weekend:
While Americans sat through football games, planned their "Black Friday'' morning shopping, and all in all enjoyed a quiet and peaceful Thanksgiving, terrorists in India were slaughtering more than 200 innocent people. Westerners, particularly U.S. and British citizens, were primary targets.
The fact that it was a peaceful American Thanksgiving went unnoticed by most. The fact that this has been the case since the Al Qaida attacks on America of Sept. 11, 2001, also went little noticed. That all of this coincides with and is a result of President Bush's prosecution of the war on Islamist extremism is never highlighted.
Our final editorial today notes general news media bias in favor of Barack Obama. Imagine what that media would have had to say, and where all the blame would have gone, had America been attacked at home again on Bush's watch.
We aren't suggesting that President Bush's strategy is the sole reason for our relative safety here at home. But it has certainly contributed in great measure. And before the new President and his eager Congress get to work dismantling what Bush has built, they better think very carefully.
Bush's much-maligned Patriot Act, with its access to international communications traffic; his seizure and confinement of enemy combatants at Guantanamo, and his buildup of security forces at home and abroad, all of these things have helped to keep America safer.
America is not safe from attacks such as just occurred in Mumbai, India. Indeed, a credible threat to the New York subway system was being watched this weekend.
But we are safer than we were seven years ago and President Bush's administration deserves much of the credit for that this Thanksgiving weekend.
That tone strikes me as just about right, and the message is especially interesting, as it's exactly the opposite of the collectivist-left's meme that America's security has been weakened under the current administration.
Keep all of this in mind as the President-Elect announces his national security team today.
