Wednesday, July 16, 2008

yea, ETs teachers pet today

Headmistress Sondrak hits the nail on the head. She puts the spotlight on the despicable "religion" known as islam.

I have no idea what "yea ET's teachers pet today" is about.


FROM KNOWLEDGE IS POWER:


yea, ETs teachers pet today

As always, I read Claire’s stuff (the empathy piece earlier) and wonder why I can’t say it as clearly as she does, since I tend to agree with nearly all she comes up with (tho I wouldn’t always select the same topics). And as always, the clarity of the ideas creates related theses, extrapolations, permutations which ricochet around in my skull, sharp-cornered little conjectures that puncture where they strike and cause concept leakage which forms into little pools of postulation and supposition which I then have to do something about.
Empathy, huh? Well, yes, I suppose it’s a good thing at times, and America, despite what many of our leaders apparently think, is perhaps the most empathetic, caring, giving, and understanding major power the world has ever seen. The real problem with empathy is that the selfish, paranoid, schizophrenic, brainwashed, backward people we try to help (Myanmar being the most recent example) either completely mistrust and misunderstand our motives or interpret our generosity and patience as weakness.

As individuals and as a nation, we tend to empathize and sympathize with the underdog, the downtrodden, the victimized, those who are suffering and being deprived or abused by their neighbors or their own government. But for my entire life of more than 2/3 of a century I have watched us give, assist, help, contribute, aide, support, defend, advise, feed, train, educate, medicate, supply, and encourage less fortunate societies, countries ravaged by natural catastrophe, people brutalized by thugs and tyrants in positions of absolute power.
What Obama fails to understand is that many Islamic societies do not want our assistance, only our absence. They don’t want to share our beliefs, our customs, or our laws, and they certainly don’t want our brand of personal freedom. Fundamentalist Islamic societies are fundamentally fragile, frightened, and selfish. Adult males who cannot permit women the basic freedom to walk in public, to talk in public, to work in public, or just be alone in public are weak, fearful, insecure insects who should be swatted like the plague-bearing bugs they are.

Anyone who would murder a woman for being raped is beyond salvation, beyond redemption, beyond consideration. A society which permits honor killings of girls who innocently fall in love with boys not approved of by their fathers or uncles or brothers deserves not our empathy but our contempt. A culture which tolerates and encourages suicide attacks on innocent shopkeepers, peacekeepers, and students is not worthy of our respect, only our scorn.
We do not need the friendship of states which consistently condemn us in international assemblies, who funnel our charity into the pockets of corrupt despots, who use our foreign aid and petrodollars to purchase weapons with which to kill us and our allies. Kim, Assad, Ahmadinejad, Chavez, and even the ruling Saudis have clearly demonstrated their animosity and rejection of our principles and purposes. All they want from us is our money and our technology. For us to continue offering olive branches and peace talks to such serpents is senseless. Their patterns are clear; they will say what they believe we want to hear, take our good faith offer, and then return to their traditional patterns of hatred and denunciation until we’ve had enough and show our teeth to start the cycle all over again.

Harmony and détente with Islam is a fool’s dream. Their sole purpose is not to live in friendship with us but to take all we have and dispose of us. They not only do not want our life style and system of government, but they don’t want us to have it either. Obama apparently cannot bring himself to accept that we are fatted cattle and they are Nile crocs, and believing that we can achieve accord and rapprochement with such limited, vicious, evil-minded savages is simply not in the best interests of our national security.

Appeasement never works with barbarians. Never has and never will. Tribute and ransom only up the ante, and we’re considering electing a beginner to play stud poker with riverboat gamblers with the deed to the ranch in his pocket. What we need in this game is a Teddy Roosevelt, not a Woody Wilson; a Wyatt Earp, not a rookie twerp; a cigar-smoking, whiskey-drinking, table-slamming, ass-kickin, name-takin cowboy with a set of brass ones, not a teenage wannabe with a beginner’s permit and an identity crisis.
Fuck it! I’m goin to bed.