tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15375010.post116170639040747804..comments2024-03-02T10:57:29.133-05:00Comments on benning's Writing Pad: Did You Forget? I Did.benninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12883327259794768568noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15375010.post-1161786595086682752006-10-25T10:29:00.000-04:002006-10-25T10:29:00.000-04:00Hope you like all of it! No, not malicious. But 23...Hope you like all of it! No, not malicious. But 23 years ago isn't that long. Maybe the terrorism has grown so, that I am more aware of the recent things and have shoved earlier incidents back in the closet. In any event I hope to remember better in the future. <BR/><BR/>Too many evil happenings to let them just drift away unremarked.benninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12883327259794768568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15375010.post-1161779772516276732006-10-25T08:36:00.000-04:002006-10-25T08:36:00.000-04:00Well, I'm certain it wasn't malicious of you...and...Well, I'm certain it wasn't malicious of you...and it <I>was</I> over 20 years ago.<BR/><BR/>BTW, I just started reading your book. So far, it's pretty good...camojackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07636605293846764764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15375010.post-1161779345933601722006-10-25T08:29:00.000-04:002006-10-25T08:29:00.000-04:00Camo: not a good feeling. :(Camo: not a good feeling. :(benninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12883327259794768568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15375010.post-1161779167385899442006-10-25T08:26:00.000-04:002006-10-25T08:26:00.000-04:00"I forgot, I'd bet you did, too."You'd lose that b...<I>"I forgot, I'd bet you did, too."</I><BR/><BR/>You'd <B>lose</B> that bet, in my case; I was still attached to the military at the time. As well-informed as you generally are though, I'm surprised to learn that <I><B>you</B></I> had forgotten...camojackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07636605293846764764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15375010.post-1161730969674701532006-10-24T19:02:00.000-04:002006-10-24T19:02:00.000-04:00Excellent, indeed! I didn't hear one single peep a...Excellent, indeed! I didn't hear one single peep about it today on TV... We musn't paint those Muslims as violent, after all.Brookehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03977090801334626461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15375010.post-1161722413178393472006-10-24T16:40:00.000-04:002006-10-24T16:40:00.000-04:00EXCELLENT post. Thank you!EXCELLENT post. Thank you!Susan Ducloshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01876090195787415266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15375010.post-1161718202869526942006-10-24T15:30:00.000-04:002006-10-24T15:30:00.000-04:00The left will finally start supporting America onc...The left will finally start supporting America once a jihadist sets off one of Achmenijihad's nukes or even a dirty bomb in America. I give it 6 years.blogagoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07359382592912601640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15375010.post-1161713348572235532006-10-24T14:09:00.000-04:002006-10-24T14:09:00.000-04:00GOD! I hope you're wrong! I don't know what it wil...GOD! I hope you're wrong! I don't know what it will take for people in the West to get their heads out of their anuses - and 9/11 should have done that - but it may be something more horrible than 9/11 to do the trick. <BR/><BR/>At that point we may see the promised "backlash" the media has been claiming we've engaged in since 9/11. And it will make things very ugly in the USA. <BR/><BR/>But what's the alternative? Surrender is not an option.benninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12883327259794768568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15375010.post-1161709831002368212006-10-24T13:10:00.000-04:002006-10-24T13:10:00.000-04:00iiThe Left with its essential agnosticism and athe...iiThe Left with its essential agnosticism and atheism is unable to comprehend that islamic fundamentalists simply want us dead for religious reasons. Political and economic considerations are secondary to the primal driving force of jihad. Suiciders have been around a long, long time, well before the Kamikazes of Japan even. This is nothing new or unique to islam. How simple, pure and pristine - allah wants and needs you dead, and your children and way of life. Alas, the complexity of modern life and its entwined nature makes their task disproportionately less complex. Recall the simplicity of boxcutters being used to kill 3,000 of and inflict financial loss. Despite the immense wealth afforded the Arab/muslim world these past 60 years, they have contributed nothing, absolutely nothing in the endeavors of medicine, law, economics, architecture, music, literature, political science, etc. While the Israelis for example were putting a man into outer space, the muslim neighbors were engaging in honor killings. Fundamentalist islam can exist in a vacum, but it must create that vacum through the extinction of opposing forces and ideologies. It cannot function and exist without the death of its counterpart. A part of me is starting to believe that we in the West are inacapable of dealing with the threat of islamofacism. Part of me thinks the visceral necessity of this is too oppressed and repressed with logic and reason and civilized living. Am I wrong?goeshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05781857563232791703noreply@blogger.com