"The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades claims the martyr operation carried out by Fatima Omar Mahmud al-Najar, aged 57, in the middle of a group of Zionist soldiers," an online statement said. The mother of nine and grandmother of 41 became the oldest Palestinian suicide bomber at the age of 57."
Her daughter Fathiya said that her family received the news gladly. "It did honor to her family and to her townspeople. She liked sacrifice," Fathiya said.
Wafa Idris, who in January 2002 became the first Palestinian woman suicide terrorist, said this before she committed her act:
"I always wanted to be the first woman who sacrifices her life for Allah. My joy will be complete when my body parts fly in all directions."
Ahh. The glorification of terror never sounded so endearing.
This is my thesis: cultural relativism and moral equivalency theory of the West prevents the clear understanding of the methods and the nature of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, and therefore thwarts its potential resolution.
Meanwhile, overheard earlier today:
"They are angry with our nation. But we tell them 'so be it and die from this anger'. Rest assured that if you do not respond to the divine call, you will die soon and vanish from the face of the earth."
--Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Some thoughts:
The Iranian regime has no qualms about undermining efforts for stability in Iraq, so why should we have any concerning efforts to subvert theirs? I don’t understand why this administration won’t provide moral and financial support to the student and other liberal movements within Iran that want nothing to do with the doomsday-eschatology of a madman.
Also: Has anyone been paying notice to how many Iranian blogs have been shutdown and authors thrown in the clink? Why does Bush not go on record as supporting dissidents in Iranian jails whose crime is protesting for freedom? Why not bring pressure against the Iranian by calling for their release?
Too many questions...
"worst disaster in U.S. history" - Al Gore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAySjmHVNGM
Can Al Gore answer a single question?
The answer is no, not really, well, possibly maybe, that is, the potential, were I president, to have the full flow of information, blah blah blah.
Gore? Who’s he?
Let’s see CBS, NBC, CNN, or NPR run a story on this:
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/12/06/D8LRJ7A00.html
Let's see VDH and Andy Sullivan debate over what Andy said here....
Denialist Watch
06 Dec 2006 05:31 pm
One wants to admire Victor Davis Hanson. And then he says something like this:
They're talking about a country that once fought Italy, Japan and Germany all at once, defeated them, and then turned around and started the Cold War ... I mean, the Cold War resistance of the Soviet Union, and they're saying that this same country, now twice the size, with much more material and military wealth, can't fight in Afghanistan and Iraq at once. That's sort of the poverty of their imagination, that we've taken our eye off the ball in Afghanistan, got bogged down in Iraq, and now we're helpless. We need Jim Baker to come in, we need Syria to come in, we need Iran to come in to help us. It's absurd, but it seems to be the prevailing opinion now.
An obvious point: all those wars cited by VDH were classic armed combat, not intractable insurgencies. The most recent such insurgency dealt with by American military - Vietnam - was also a failure. Another obvious point: the Cold War was won in part by containment, not pre-emption. But the larger issue is this: Does VDH seriously believe that the problem in Iraq is insufficient support from the American public? This president got all he wanted and more - for a longer period than World War II. He assumed total power and control, by-passed even the Republican Congress when he felt like it, ripped up the Geneva Conventions, got to decide everything in Iraq for three and a half years ... and it's now the public's fault and the press's fault that almost every sane analysis concludes it has been botched beyond belief?
I might add that continuing bromides by VDH in which no serious criticism of the Bush administration was entertained did indeed contribute to the failure. He enabled failure rather than confronting it. If there are any members of the American public who bear responsibility for the debacle in Iraq it is those of us who passionately supported the war in the first place - and above all, those who refused to criticize its conduct once the failures became manifest. About a month after the invasion.
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