“We are, all of us, at war…”
Posted by Richard on July 7, 2005
Regarding the London bombings, Tony Blair thought it was "particularly barbaric that this has happened on a day when people are meeting to try to help the problems of poverty in Africa, the long-term problems of climate change and the environment.” Bill Quick thinks Blair is wrong and should know better (emphasis added):
This observation reeks of the myopia demonstrated by Michael Moore, and shared by others, when Moore wondered why Islamofascist terrorists had struck New York, since New York had not voted for GWB. Islamism does not give a damn for the liberal voting preferences of New York City, and more than it cares about liberal concerns over global warming, poverty in Africa, or the environment. …
When will the west get it through its collective head that Islamism desires nothing more and nothing less than to kill us? It does not share the liberal project. In fact, it despises the liberal project. It is at war with the liberal project. For them, the liberal project is meaningless. The only thing that matters is the faithful triumphing over the infidel, and everybody not of the faithful, whether white, black, brown, liberal, conservative, religious or atheist, is the infidel and fit only to be conquered or slaughtered. Almost everybody but those pursuing the liberal project seems to understand this.
We are, all of us, at war with these murderous savages. It is not our choice, but theirs. Thanks to George Bush and Tony Blair, we have mostly been fighting that war in the middle east. But the heart of our own nation has already been attacked, and now events in Britain demonstrate that good deeds and liberal shibboleths don’t innoculate against the Islamist cancer.
Those on the left who compare the Islamofascists to our Minutemen, who call them freedom fighters, who profess solidarity with their efforts to resist US imperialism and oppression, and who excuse their murderous acts as understandable responses to our aggression — they all fail to comprehend one critical fact: if they ever fell into the hands of these Islamofascists, no professions of solidarity or words of praise or understanding would prevent them from having their heads sawed off.
Yogimus said
If washington walked down the streets of boston, beheading the locals and killing his kinsmen, then MAYBE the terrorists = minutemen “MIGHT” hold true.