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September 05, 2004

Putin's Blairite Moment

He sees the futility in a McGovernite foreign policy; why can't John Forbes Kerry?:

"The moment we give in to their blackmail and succumb to panic, we will plunge millions of people into an endless chain of bloodletting conflicts.... One cannot but see that this is obvious.

“What we have on our hands is not the scattered acts of intimidation or odd terrorist sorties. This is direct intervention on the part of international terrorism in Russia. It is a total and full-blown war that keeps claiming the lives of our compatriots.

“But world experience proves that such wars do not end quickly. Given this situation, we cannot afford complacent treatment of it anymore."

No mention of first getting Russia's "important and historic allies" on board first. Why, you'd almost think that Putin might take action alone if necessary, and furthermore even against the counsel and criticism of Jacques Chirac, if you can imagine such a thing.

Children Shot in the Back, Babies Knifed, Fifteen Year Old Girls Raped: Inhuman. By their own actions and conscious choice, they have removed themselves from the family of humanity, and they ought to be treated as such.

They butcher and rape children, and no one on the left will say boo about it without being directly challenged to condemn it. And then they only do so half-heartedly and by rote.

But if the animals at Guantanamo don't have praying-mats of a certain thickness and comfort level, they scream "fascism."

Ilyka may have a Russkie-sounding subversive-type name, but she (?-- not sure) puts it well:

Bush didn't remove 'em [from the family of humanity]; Putin didn't remove 'em; failing to ratify Kyoto didn't remove 'em; they took themselves off the team roster.

Yeahp. They're on the morally-disabled list, all right. And the sooner we can cull them from the league, the better.

Correction: Well, here I was thinking this crime had been committed by (who could have guessed?) Arab/Muslim monsters who have decided that non-Arabs and non-Muslims are not human and therefore can be violated or butchered at will.

But I was wrong.

Turns out it was the Jews. Again!

Blow me over with a feather. I swear, those cunning Israelis are like Lucy holding the football, except instead of pulling the football away at the last moment, they fill it with screws and nails and C-4 explosives and detonate it amidst a mass of children maiming, blinding, and killing them and then blame poor innocent Muslims for the crime.

Jews
You'll like their craftiness.
But you'll love their insidiousness.

It's Funny How Acts of Terrorism Keep Being Committed by Non-Terrorists Department: Random Birkel on the "insurgents," "rebels," and, I'm guessing, "charismatic agrarian reformers" who cut the throats of babies and raped children.

[The agrarian reformers line is swiped from Ann Coulter.]

Michelle Malkin notes the NYTimes seems to have cracked open their copy of Roget's Liberal Euphemisms (Second College Edition, Revised) in order to call "terrorists" everything other than what they are.

"Armed captors?" Armed fucking captors?

The Indispensible Mr. Steyn is also slicing like an outraged fucking hammer:

Row upon row of dead children, more than a hundred of them, 150, more, many of them shot in the back as they tried to flee.

Flee from whom? Let's take three representative responses: "Guerillas", said The New York Times. "Chechen separatists", ventured the BBC, eventually settling for "hostage-takers". "Insurgents", said The Guardian's Isabel Hilton, hyper-rational to a fault: "Today's hostage-taking," she explained, "is more savage, born of the spread of asymmetrical warfare that pits small, weak and irregular forces against powerful military machines. No insurgent lives long if he fights such overwhelming force directly . . . If insurgent bullets cannot penetrate military armour, it makes little sense to shoot in that direction. Soft targets – the unprotected, the innocent, the uninvolved – become targets because they are available."

And then there was Adam Nicolson in London's Daily Telegraph, who filed one of those ornately anguished columns full of elevated, overwritten allusions – each child was "a Pieta, the archetype of pity. Each is a Cordelia carried on at the end of Act V" – and yet in a thousand words he's too busy honing his limpid imagery to confront the fact that this foul deed had perpetrators, never mind the identity of those perpetrators.

Sorry, it won't do. I remember a couple of days after September 11 writing in some column or other that weepy candlelight vigils were a cop-out: the issue wasn't whether you were sad about the dead people but whether you wanted to do something about it. Three years on, that's still the difference. We can all get upset about dead children, but unless you're giving honest thought to what was responsible for the slaughter your tasteful elegies are no use. Nor are the hyper-rationalist theories about "asymmetrical warfare".

Update: Dianna throws cold water on my hopes of a partnership with Russia in the War on Terror, reminding me that Putin is 1, a former KGB spymaster, 2, a onetime communist, and 3, a current tyrannical strongman.

Allah twists the knife by telling me that Putin is not my friend.

posted by Ace at 03:10 PM

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they have removed themselves from the family of humanity

That is IT, right there. Dennis Miller has some quote along those lines that I can't find at the moment, but that is it right there. Bush didn't remove 'em; Putin didn't remove 'em; failing to ratify Kyoto didn't remove 'em; they took themselves off the team roster.

Posted by: ilyka on September 5, 2004 03:41 PM

I've written on this today as well with lots of links to others writing similar.

Please feel free to go over and read at randombirkel.blogspot.com and see what you think.

And feel free to use the links on there too.

Regards

Posted by: Birkel on September 5, 2004 04:00 PM

It's time for definite measures.

Really.

Posted by: Francis W. Porretto on September 5, 2004 04:59 PM

Ace,

I propose a new concise meme to serve as a shorthand for the ideas communicated in "removing themselves from the family of humanity" and other similar expressions: "people-shaped things."

I found it at Andrea Harris' place, as in:

How to make friends and placate enemies:

Take a bunch of kids hostage. Threaten to kill them if your extremely reasonable demands are not met. Then threaten to kill them anyway, as payment for people killed in a recent war. Don’t give them food or water for three days. Provoke the authorities into sending commandoes in and get killed. Make sure to have foreign nationals (in this case, Arabs) as prominent members of your so-called “ethnic” group.

...

Update: make sure you laugh at the suffering of your hostage children too. That always endears people to you. Well, people-shaped things, anyway.

It could even be abbreviated to "PSTs"

Posted by: Russell Wardlow on September 5, 2004 07:47 PM

Off-Topic: Ace, you really need to check out a book entitled Betrayal by Linda Chavez. Among other labor union horrors it mentions how Terry McAuliffe barely escaped indictment in a money laundering scheme in the 90's and still managed to become head of the DNC. All this ammo needs to be deployed.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400052599/ref=cm_r8n_gvthanks_cont/102-6245537-3256901?2115%7cR174TI8WL33UQ8helpfulreviews%2ev=%2d1&2115%7cR174TI8WL33UQ8helpfulreviews%2es=SUCCESS&

Posted by: Eric Pobirs on September 5, 2004 07:55 PM

I'm sorry, what the hell were we talking about again? Oh yeah.

Gosh, I'd bet that if roving bands of ethnic Russians were going around taking the poor Chechin Muslim's hostage and killing their children, the moonbats would be marching in the streets demanding that Bush=Hitler condem the facist Russian government, or more likely, blame him directly.

Posted by: Dacotti on September 5, 2004 08:28 PM

I snapped at my mother when she ignorantly used the word "rebel" when referencing these fucking scumbag terrrorists.

Call a fucking spade a spade. A terrorist a terrorist.

This is such a fucking simple point, yet it needs to be addressed because words carrying meaning and ultimately, power.

Keep up the good work, Ace.

I'll be talking to you.

Peace. God bless.

Posted by: sonofnixon on September 5, 2004 08:41 PM

Ace, I commented on this over at Allah's place. I am in total agreement that these creatures have removed themselves from the human race.

But check out that Putin is paraphrasing Stalin, when he says 'Weak people are beaten. We do not want to be beaten.'

If he's quoting Stalin, he's not a friend to freedom. I am aware that the enemy of my enemy is my ally, but keep the knowledge of what Putin is in the back of your head at all times. Or we'll behave like Roosevelt at the end of the second world war, and consider how that turned out.

Posted by: Dianna on September 5, 2004 10:02 PM

Just as a broken clock is right twice a day, even Stalin can get something right on occasion, even if he was a murderous POS. Al leats he had the clarity of thought to hate Hitler. Putin's right on this count.

Granted, when all's said and done, watch the little bastard. Who was it who said, "Keep you friends close, and your enemies closer"?

Posted by: Brian B on September 6, 2004 12:03 AM

Probably Niccolo Machiavelli.

Say what you want about Stalin, but the guy was a wiz with photoshop.

Posted by: michael dennis on September 6, 2004 12:51 AM

Dianna, thanks for the reminder. I updated to note that.

Posted by: ace on September 6, 2004 03:38 AM

Son of Nixon said, "yet it needs to be addressed because words carrying meaning and ultimately, power."

Not anymore. Every day I'm more and more convinced that words are losing all meaning. See the second paragraph of this post. I'm sure I could come up with a dozen more examples.

BrianB asked, "Who was it who said, 'Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer'?"

Monty Burns, referring to Homer Simpson, in "Burn Verkaufen der Kraftwerk."

Posted by: on September 7, 2004 01:21 AM