July 18th 2008
Much Ado About “Muslim”
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ud Day, Medal of Honor winner and “POW buddy” of John McCain, is taking some heat today for these comments:
“The Muslims have said either we kneel or they’re going to kill us.
“I don’t intend to kneel and I don’t advocate to anybody that we kneel, and John doesn’t advocate to anybody that we kneel.”
Talking Points Memo called the comments incendiary and asked,
Here’s a test for the McCain campaign: Will it disavow the incendiary comments that a key McCain surrogate made about Muslims on a campaign conference call?
I sure hope not. “Disavow” is too strong an reaction. A “nuanced rephrasing” is all we need, so here’s my talking points memo for the McCain camp:
“Muslims who believe in violent jihad may be a minority of all Muslims, but they are the cause of the war we have been drawn into. And only Muslims are demanding that we convert or die; no one else is. Of course, we realize that the jihadists represent a small minority of Islam, and we also know the best way to end the war on terror is for Muslims around the world to end it by demanding that their religion reject violent jihad and condemn those who pursue it.”
You know the Muslims will get all uppity about Day’s comments, so put the challenge right back on them. Behave like blithering idiots rioting in the street at the least whiff of truthful criticism, or get your act together and join the civilized world.
But those aren’t the talking points of the left. Ben Smith’s Blog at Politico says Day “seems to have cast McCain’s foreign policy in stark, religious terms.” Well, shucks, Ben, don’t you think that’s how Osama bin Laden sees it? President Bush was right to make the war a war on terrorism – as we saw in the drubbing FARC’s gotten recently – but that doesn’t take away the fact that jihad is a uniquely Islamic concept.
Careful PC wording doesn’t change reality; it only masks it.
Pandagon, always good for a fresh breath of extremist putrefaction, took one listen to Day’s call that we not kneel to Islamofascist jihad and is already waving the white flag:
May I recommend kneepads? I’m sure you’ll find some on the Straight Talk Express.
I thought that we’d understood several years back that the War on Terror is not, in fact, a War on Islam, particularly prescient in light of the fact that unofficial counts of Muslims in the world put their numbers somewhere north of eleventy bajillion and the numbers of the strong-kneed Americans at decidedly less than that. If at some point the two groups do decide to go to full out war with each other, I do not hesitate to say that the collected might of Islam will f*** the Bud Day Brigade’s s*** up.
The collected might of Islam? Maybe the collected meat of Islam, because they’ve got the stuff for human wave attacks, but their might is a bit 17th century compared to the military and economic might of (pick your own word) “the West,” or “Christiandom.” And the left may be weak-kneed and has certainly proved itself as such nearly every single day since 9/11, but it should not paint us with its brush.
I’m a 57 year-old with a spreading body and no military training, but my knees are still plenty strong and will be there in the unlikely event that one old POW’s accurate statement about the nature of many of the followers of a certain religion were to lead to full out war.
McCain has been a wuss so far in this campaign, backing away from comments he should be standing by. Let’s hope this is a turning point, and he doesn’t kneel to PC dogma.
hat-tip: memeorandum
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July 19th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Confronting a similar situation in Khartoum, Hilaire Belloc penned this quatrain:Whatever happensWe have gotThe Maxim gunAnd they have not.We have the Bomb. Indeed, we have quite a lot of Bombs, and quite a lot of aircraft, cruise missiles, and 16-inch naval guns on aircraft carriers with which to deliver them. We have a $14 TRILLION economy that could easily make thousands more. Any nation or people that doesn’t fear our capabilities is delusional.The Islamic world might think we lack the will to use these things, but there’s a line they have not yet crossed that will bring them into play — and should they cross it, America will unleash her full powers, with the unconcealed aim of making Islam a religion practiced only in Hell. Any nation or people that disbelieves in our capacity for purposeful violence is insane.Another atrocity such as 9/11 would do it. Perhaps less would do it. I hope a nuclear assault on Israel would do it.There are approximately 1.3 billion Muslims in the world today. Should our line be crossed, that number will never again exceed seven digits. Ask the Japanese and Germans whether our bombers scrupled to avoid civilian targets. Ask them whether we were interested in anyone’s resistance sympathies.Americans don’t want to kill a billion people, but rest assured: Cross our line and we will. We’ll set a new standard for displays of righteous wrath — and in the aftermath, the whole world will cringe at our slightest sigh of displeasure.