|
|
|
January 27, 2005
Terrorists as Equal Opportunity Martyrs?
E at the Dave, responding to one of the single most offensive pieces of post-9-11 relativist drivel I've seen, gives "cultural studies" darling Terry Eagleton a dose of righteous indignation that's worth reading. Notice that Eagleton starts right in with "insurgents." At my favorite blog the Bleat, James Lileks shows us the term "terrorist" in use in 1937, long before Reuters *ahem* altered the discourse, adding this: It’s almost jarring to see the word “TERRORIST” in 1937, since we think that belongs to the post 1972-Olympics world, perhaps. And it’s enlightening to read about violence and bloodshed and the usual cycle o’ violence instigated, in this example, by the publication of a commission’s recommendation to partition the area. posted by Dennis on 01.27.05 at 09:48 PM
TrackBack
TrackBack URL for this entry: http://classicalvalues.com/cgi-bin/pings.cgi/1944 Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Terrorists as Equal Opportunity Martyrs?:
» Miscellanea - I'm at a Loss Edition from Decision '08
Terry Eagleton waxes poetic over the beautiful art of the suicide bomber (I'm not joking) (hat tip to Classical Values)... [Read More] Tracked on January 28, 2005 07:55 PM
Comments
You and Lileks (among others) have chosen to deliberately ignore a critical piece of information (which you would come to understand should you have occaision to actually read Terry Eagleton): actions have consequences. Decades of US foreign policy in the Mideast - including the support of imperial genocide, plutocracy, kleptocracy, torture, and all-out theft of resources has resulted in an awesomely huge and pervasive network of terror cells bent on destroying the West. The West MADE this enemy. Why is it so hard to understand that if we stop making enemies we STOP MAKING ENEMIES? blogesota · January 28, 2005 02:25 PM Because you don't stop making enemies. Sometimes, someone just wants to steal your shit. Sometimes, some people just want to kill you. Nations don't have freinds. Nations have interests. We should not apologize for advancing those interests. Like it or not, unless you live in a fucking cave, make your own clothes and hunt for your own food, you are dependent on cheap oil for your survival. As are we all. Why is that so hard for you to understand? João · January 28, 2005 03:45 PM Thank you João, that was well said. Blogesota, if U.S. hegemony is as evil, ruthless, acquisitive and violent as you maintain, one question inescapably raises itself. Why are they FUCKING with us? For them, it can only end in tears. I have no illusions about what my government is capable of. They shouldn't either. But I don't believe your perceptions are accurate. J. Case · January 28, 2005 10:32 PM |
|
December 2006
WORLD-WIDE CALENDAR
Search the Site
E-mail
Classics To Go
Archives
December 2006
November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 January 2004 December 2003 November 2003 October 2003 September 2003 August 2003 July 2003 June 2003 May 2003 May 2002 See more archives here Old (Blogspot) archives
Recent Entries
• Laughing at the failure of discourse?
• Holiday Blogging • The right to be irrational? • I'm cool with the passion fashion • Climate change meltdown at the polls? • If you're wrong, then so is God? • Have a nice day, asshole! • Scarlet "R"? • Consuming power while empowering consumption • Shrinking is growth!
Links
Site Credits
|
|
I have had it with terrorists and their apologists.
And, everybody, please stop calling them martyrs. A martyr is somebody who is tortured, executed, killed, nailed to a cross, flayed alive, burned at the stake, torn on the rack, etc., because he or she refuses to renounce a belief.
If you kill yourself, jump off a bridge, take poison, shoot yourself, blow yourself up, etc., then you are a suicide. If you kill somebody else other than in defense of self, family, or country, then you are a murderer. If you murder random strangers just to make a political point, then you are a ------[fisk]ing terrorist, and, as far as I'm concerned, you can [fisk] off and rot in Hell. I have zero sympathy for terrorists and zero respect for their -------[fisk]ing apologists. Harsh, I know. That's the way I am.