More fowl language

A new blogger called Gay Patriot has a simple question:

Russia's 9/11
First NYC/DC, then Madrid, now Russia faces its own "9/11". How many more will have to die until Europe, and ostriches here in the US wake up and realize we are in a World War? (Via Glenn Reynolds.)
A good question. I'm tempted to ask how many of the Peace Ostriches actually served in the Peace Corps, but I guess it borders on the ad hominem to question anyone's peace service.....

Great new blog!

posted by Eric on 09.04.04 at 10:58 AM





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I hope the "peace ostriches" label includes the young Republicans who cheer on the war in Iraq but refuse to enlist in the battle.

If these war supporters don't go, who will enlist? And how convinced are these young Republicans, really, that the war is necessary and accomplishing something?

Gay Patriot's left-baiting discussion leaves key questions unanswered:

How does a nation fight terrorism? There is significant disagreement, even among conservatives: Financial aid, domestic spying, or bombing and occupying selected territories? (Again, with what forces, when neither young Republicans nor young Europeans are willing to put themselves on the line?)

How is Iraq better off, now that regional warlords, fundamentalists, imported terrorists, power outages, pipeline blasts, and thousands of dead civilians have replaced Saddam Hussein's secure-but-brutal dictatorship?

How is Afghanistan improving, when the headlines indicate that warlords and the Taliban are making a comeback?

How are we better off, with 100,000 of our troops committed to Iraq and unable to tackle the real sources of Islamic terrorism?

What are conservatives doing about the real sources of Islamic terrorism: Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Algeria, Syria, Indonesia? In Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, terrorist activity seems to be racing far ahead of the token actions taken against it.

What are conservatives doing, here or abroad, to reverse the imminent threat of nuclear terrorism using black-market Russian suitcase nukes or primitive North Korean nukes? The Bush administration seems to be doing nothing; at least Kerry has spoken out on the need for action. (Nevertheless, talk is cheap.)

I don't see significant opposition on the U.S. left to battling real terrorism. (Europe is a different story.) I do see opposition to launching wars against proxy nations to mask the fact that the current administration is too cowardly and corrupt to go after the governments and territories that really support terrorism.

Gay Patriot's conservative chest-beaters are ostriches themselves. These pathetic liberal-vs.-conservative scapegoat wars are distracting the West from pulling its collective head out of the sand and taking urgent action before whole cities are annihilated.

Mike A.   ·  September 4, 2004 02:29 PM

If you're saying Bush isn't hawkish enough, I agree.

I like the Gay Patriot. It's good to see yet another Homosexual Conservative blog. The more the better.

Russia's 9/11? I doubt it. Russia has been trying to deal with terrorism from Chechnyan separatists for years. Remember the takeover of the opera house in Moscow a few years ago? Russia had rather significant problems with Chechnyan terrorism for a while after the break-up of the USSR in the early 1990s, and let Chechnya become relatively autonomous in 1996. I can't recall why Russia re-exerted domination over Chechnya a few years later--I believe it was because of some form of criminal activity that was taking place in Chechnya that was having repercussions in Russia.

Regardless, the apparent fact is that the take-over of the school was done by people fighing on behalf of Chechnya's independence from Russia. It is difficult to imagine the reason for the attack on the WTC on 9/11.

raj   ·  September 5, 2004 01:21 PM

Russia reaps what it has sown in the last three hundred years. There is only one sure treatment for these problems many a Russian believes in these days, and it goes something like this: completely withdraw from Caucasus [evacuating all ethnically Russian population], deport all Caucasians living around the country back to Caucasus, build up and man a good fortified border and leave "the blacks" to their own devices. However, everybody understands that the ex-KGB people in Kremlin would never do that.

It took 3 years of WWI to have the nation defenestrate the government.

We shall live, we shall see...

Ivan   ·  September 5, 2004 06:46 PM


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